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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-12-30 06:25 PM


She knows to breathe and yet would hold
each in-breath of the past
to feel it travel slowly through
each fragment of her being
and they are fragments now
because the whole of all she was
imploded long ago.

It's a shattering beyond the call
of trials and tribulations
and she can't say now today
why a mountain grew and prospered
from the tiniest molehill.

Sometimes it's not her mountain
but she climbs as one bereft
of all directional sense
until the fall and roll
into the knowing.

It's the exhale of all that was
that forces on the weak
a barefoot walk on the beach
of no peaceful relief
but the sea is like a buffer
and she bends into the feel
like one who knows to be
cleansed naturally.

Spent, bedraggled, like a waif;
how can it be she's beautiful
when ere she thinks of you?

Helen / 31 December 2010


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BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2010-12-30 06:29 PM


It's the exhale of all that was
that forces on the weak
a barefoot walk on the beach
of no peaceful relief
but the sea is like a buffer
and she bends into the feel
like one who knows to be
cleansed naturally.

Spent, bedraggled, like a waif;
how can it be she's beautiful
when ere she thinks of you?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don't know why that brings tears to my eyes!!  
Maybe because I want to be her...(all beautiful when she thinks of him)  

Hugs to you Helen~


ethome
Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
2 posted 2010-12-30 06:33 PM


Deeply sad Helen but deeply beautiful writing.
Lingering hurt is such an enemy of the peaceful existence.
Things come apart sometimes and the mend is long and hard but it can be done!!

Super stuff Helen

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2010-12-30 06:33 PM


Oh, dear Bluesy, now I'm crying too.  Must be because I also want to be her.  


Helen

latearrival
Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499
Florida
4 posted 2010-12-30 06:36 PM


Another gold coin tossed into our midst to bring tears or smiles.latearrival.jo
Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
5 posted 2010-12-30 06:40 PM


Thanks, Eric.  All things are possible except those that aren't.  Sorry, I very much appreciate your comment and you are, of course, right.  When one has a good and bad day all in one it leaves one ... unbalanced.

So from the unbalanced, Happy New Year!

Helen

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
6 posted 2010-12-30 06:45 PM


Hi Jo - I think I had to write it to wipe the tears away but strange how they always come back again.  Crazy like their owner, no doubt.  

Helen

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London
7 posted 2010-12-30 06:45 PM


to some people you're everything, and your heart reflects that ...

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
8 posted 2010-12-30 06:50 PM


Oh, now I've got something to think about.  Thanks for the read, Rex.
LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

9 posted 2010-12-30 07:13 PM


Helen, it's the bad that defines us, and makes us who we are...we have to choices, to accept change or to fight it...or just allow nature to have her natural way...some of her ways are very long, and others are not...you are an outstanding poet...your poetry reflects what you see, and your eyes are window to your soul...and that soul is magnificent...you are very special....

love you
Lee J.

JerryPat
Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991
Louisiana/America
10 posted 2010-12-30 08:09 PM


Yep. Those last lines is like a sucker punch, you just didn't see them coming. Love the whole show, but the last lines knocked me for a loop.

To mimic is a form of praise unless
you have no thoughts of your own

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
11 posted 2010-12-31 12:49 PM


LeeJ - My reply could be flippant like a wave or serious like a grave but Ive opted for a simple "thank you very much" because I know you know less is sometimes more.  This is one of those times.

Jerry - Thanks and, yes, they knocked me too.  

Helen

icebox
Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows
12 posted 2010-12-31 10:23 AM


"but the sea is like a buffer
and she bends into the feel
like one who knows to be
cleansed naturally."

Yes, indeed!

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