It Rippled Today .......................................... repost 5/2000

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Open Poetry #12

It Rippled Today .......................................... repost 5/2000

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-02-22 10:12 AM

It Rippled Today

Did you feel it? Ever so tentative,
less than a breath, a trigger
of action occurring in a touch
of finger's skin to temple
~ a catch of thought ~
so it has again begun.

It is moving closer although
it will have no final destination.

There can be no action without
a reaction, and nothing ever
comes to a complete stop.

Because there was a ripple today.

God, I pray
that I will be aware
of the nuances this very slight movement
will provide
~ a flash of color ~
~a scent so silently pervasive ~
and that I will know that
it touched me.

Like McKuen's "Stanyon Street"
the symbolism of the words alone
evade memories of things long gone,
but never forgotten.

I was not listening when that
ripple of yesterday passed, I had only
felt the breath of a decision
and that path then taken
lies in some wooded dream
of long ago.
Done rippled along in other directions.
Outcomes which someday
may ripple back to me.

Consider it never too late
to make life changing decisions,
as they only come to you
on ripples of conscience,
and do with it all the good
that you can.

©KRJ
2 May, 2000

Wilfred Yeats
Member Elite

since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

1 posted 2001-02-22 10:20 AM

Tentative ripples -
There are times I'm sure=
When we all wonder if we've felt them -
When we all wonder how or -
If we should have responded
"The road less taken" -
Will it - could it =
"Make all the difference"?

Speaking for myself -
I'm going for all the gusto
I don't want to agonize in old age doubt

Fabulous poem Karilea
I'll treasure this one

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2001-02-24 02:41 PM

Karilea~
Today was my day to shop on Page 7 ...
and on aisle 214 - Look what I found !
You just filled my heart with this bargain !

Beautifully portrayed ...
Thank you so much for the ripples.
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-02-25 06:51 PM

Mr. Yeats, Marge...thank you BOTH so much!

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.