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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
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South Africa

0 posted 2014-08-16 11:23 AM


An overcast day and the river still flows
down to the sea of all it can feel
when love is silent within containment
beneath the façade of normality.

It’s there in the depths that love is free
to remember and know the beautiful
that once confused and set in motion
a series of steps towards heartache.

But not yet broken the heart is whole
to enlarge and absorb the full import
of how love in its own power
moulds and adorns the essence of one.

And the sea still thrashes and rolls as before
without a “you” to disturb the flow
by whatever degree of ignorance
is decreed as your burden to bear.

The river is free there in that sea
where memories meld and mingle
with an unseen and unknown force
that leads true love into eternity.

So look at the sea and know, believe,
I am there remembering “you”
today, this day, when the river still flows
on a South African overcast day!

Helen / 16 August 2014


© Copyright 2014 Helen - All Rights Reserved
BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2014-08-16 05:38 PM


Oh Helen...your poem speaks to me on so many levels.  Every word rocked me gently.  
I love your passion and honesty and the depth of your emotion.  I truly felt the sea in all her beauty.

So many hugs for you sweet lady.

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa
2 posted 2014-08-17 12:20 PM


Thank you, dear Bluesy.  The sun mostly shines in this part of the world but every now and again there's an overcast day that causes havoc.  Fortunately it's soon forgotten and we return to normality or at least so it would appear.  

Hugs to you!

Michael
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3 posted 2014-08-17 12:44 PM


I have always believed the heart has a mind of it's own.  As long as that's the case, the river will flow.  

Michael

Honeybunch
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4 posted 2014-08-17 01:22 PM


Yes, I think you're right, Michael.  Thanks for the read.
EmmaRose
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5 posted 2014-08-17 04:57 PM



And the sea still thrashes and rolls as before
without a “you” to disturb the flow
by whatever degree of ignorance
************************************

WOnderful that love somehow prevails despite the 'yous' that sometime take the wind out of our sails
eloquently done

Honeybunch
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South Africa
6 posted 2014-08-17 05:17 PM


Thank you, ER!  Perhaps if we wait a million lifetimes those "you's" will be as they're meant to be but life has a way of changing the perfect into the imperfect and there's nothing we can do about it.
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since 1999-07-29
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7 posted 2014-08-18 10:54 AM


So look at the sea and know, believe,
I am there remembering “you”

I liked the entire poem, but these lines really touched me. I have... and forever will... remember.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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So. El Monte, California
8 posted 2014-08-28 10:41 AM


Always enjoy your beautiful words, Helen.
                                   Ida
          

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