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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2012-08-18 01:23 AM

EARTH UNTO EARTH
12 August 2012

Splattered single
coral Erythrina tears
bleeding orange memories
on my verandah
in high wind’s fury.

I see you
and revere you
and mourn your passing.
Namaste,
my precious flowers,
you will live on
in me
and in the nectar trumpets
the wind didn’t shake
from your parent tree
for we are all
one.

Owl

Amaryllis
Senior Member

since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

1 posted 2012-08-18 01:42 AM

Oh...this gave me chills (the good kind), it's so beautiful! Truly.

Best,
Amaryllis

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2012-08-18 03:20 AM

Smiles, Amaryllis (and an amaryllis is such a beautiful flower). I am glad they were the good kind and that you felt it so well and enjoyed it. Thank you for your lovely comment.

Owl

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

3 posted 2012-08-18 02:48 PM

Indeed we are all one...gave me goosebumps...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2012-08-18 03:05 PM

Thank you, Startime. Smiles.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2012-08-19 12:47 PM

So beautiful, Diana.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2012-08-19 04:22 PM

Thank you, Ida. I am glad you found it so.

Owl

Marsha

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-10

Posts 7423
Maidstone Kent England

7 posted 2012-08-20 06:00 PM

This is exquisite writing, just beautiful you have a wonderful gift x thank you for sharing it with us
Love and warm stuff
as always
Mushy
x x x x x x x

Tomorrow is another day I don't know what it holds
but I can face the future with courage brave and bold

Footprints In My Heart
Kethry

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

8 posted 2012-08-21 03:34 AM

Thank you warmly, Marsha.  I just write what is in my eyes, my heart, my soul and I have been richly blessed to feel the intense joy and pain of so much around me.  I have learned, as I can see you have too in your great wisdom and comprehension of things incomprehensible, that the pain is the price we pay for the joy, and it is a price that you and I and many others have learned to pay - and therein is conceived another poem to be nurtured before its eventual birth.

PS Coming back to add this post script after having just read your comment in your poem, 'Losing you to the Shadows' which initially I took for being an event in your life.  I am very heart-warmed to discover that I was wrong.  However, that doesn't change a thing about what I said of you above or in my reply to 'Losing you to the Shadows' - if anything, it emphasises it, because you have learned before the experience, not because of it, and that is the most difficult.

Good luck with your studies.  I know how exciting it is.  I also did my degree (BA, thus warmly humanitarian) as a adult and found that I immersed myself even more in the richness of what I learned about the world and myself than I would have been able to straight from school.  The piece of paper at the end was nice - OK, very nice, and also useful, but the journey is what I remember the most - and that was way back in 1977, 8 and 9!

Enjoy your studies, work hard, keep calm and get enough sleep.  We will be looking forward to your triumphant return as soon as you are ready.

Owl

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