An Ordinary Man and an Ordinary Woman

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Open Poetry #50

An Ordinary Man and an Ordinary Woman

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2019-06-08 04:52 AM

7 September 2017

Many, many, many rotations of the earth ago
there was an ordinary man
and an ordinary woman
whose spirits met in the blue beyond.
They touched each other’s hearts
and continued to meet
tentatively to begin with,
but their times apart lessened
with every exhilarating sunrise,
one time they met in a sub-tropical forest,
another on a granite-topped mountain,
another on a western beach
in summer sunshine,
another in a field of flowers,
another on the banks of a stream
that gurgled and giggled and laughed
as it danced over rocks and pebbles,
and soon they met
in each other’s homes
and later still
in each other’s arms
for, on a long path
of many twists and turns,
they had learned more about each other
with each caressing sunset
as they talked and talked and talked
sharing their secret fears and aspirations
and they learned to know
the bloodbeat of each other’s hearts
and the music in their souls
would sing
in
duets
in bass and contralto
the beauty of their treasured and unfurling love.
For each other, they had become extraordinary.

One day a storm arose
like a mighty hurricane
and rent them apart.
It glowered and grumbled
and raged and rumbled
and bellowed and roared
and many lives were lost,
but the ordinary man
and the ordinary woman
believed and trusted and prayed
that the other would be saved.

At last the storm abated
and all was still
in the ensuing devastation
under a relentless sun.

The ordinary man
and the ordinary woman
were drawn
inexplicably
to their first meeting place
in the blue beyond
and as they both approached it,
each saw the other,
yet, they moved still sedately forward
knowing
that all was well,
their hearts aglow
as they met and melted into each other’s arms.

Is that the end of the story?
No,
it is the
. . .
beginning.

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

1 posted 2019-07-01 01:29 PM

Owl, What a Beautiful Adam & Eve Love-story!

Enjoyed Poetess..

Sky~

~Don't Quit Your Day Dream~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2019-07-05 03:34 PM

Thank you, augustsky, for your kind words.

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