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

0 posted 2013-06-17 05:19 AM


The book is open today at insight
as the birds claim the glory of sky
and seem to be forcing a look out there
as a turn-away from the knowing.

Yet the knowing follows the need to see
how they dip and glide gloriously free
in the vastness of no limitations
or rules as to how they must be.

Slowly it dawns like day after night
that I too must soar like the birds
un-weighted by the burden of sight
that penetrates all falsities.

And when it is known that a dip and glide
is a personal saving grace
can I say I’m a bird gifted by verse
in claim of the glorious sky?

No, cannot be; we’re all land bound
manipulated sometimes unknowingly
by falsity dressed up as truth
as a means of clipping our wings!  

Helen / 17 June 2013

© Copyright 2013 Helen - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2013-06-17 06:58 AM


Unfortunately you speak the truth here, Helen. We try to soar, but somehow we always seem to have our wings clipped.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394
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2 posted 2013-06-17 09:17 AM


very insightful 'write' ...

an especially fine line:

"birds claim the glory of sky"

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2013-06-17 10:24 AM


Thanks Jerry and Bruce.  Birds are very clever - they fly away from humans.  
BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
4 posted 2013-06-18 10:04 PM


Oh Helen...this is such a great poem and so much food for thought.....to fly so high, to be free as a bird... It is you closing line that hits a nerve and sums up the reality of it all.

Excellent writing, good poetess.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
5 posted 2013-06-19 02:09 AM


Thank  you, dear Bluesy gal!  What a strange species we humans are when caught in a web of lies.  Who and what is the spider?
Gale
Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578
Russia
6 posted 2013-06-19 10:41 AM


It's a very beautiful poem!

"we’re all land bound
manipulated sometimes unknowingly
by falsity dressed up as truth"

I believe that our hearts can see what is right and what is wrong.

Thank you for sharing it )

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
7 posted 2013-06-26 06:39 AM


I have to say, this might be your best ever, Helen. Love it.
                         Ida

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