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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2001-05-31 11:49 AM

The Wind And The Sea
1:
The Reel Of Time
Loops and twists
And start to spin backwards.
I sit in the kitchen with my sister
In our old duplex
At 919 East Guenter.
Everything is as we left it
In June of 1967.
And everything is vivid
Even across the chasm
of thirty-four years.
I become aware that I am dreaming,
That all the houses were demolished years ago,

To make way for new development,
And marvel
that I'm sitting in a house,
a neighborhood, a time
that no longer exists,
that the Future is the past----
that the President has not resigned,
that the war is not yet lost,
that the Senator and Activist will be assassinated,
that I know all that is to come,
and that no one will believe me
if I tell ...
I open the back door
And step outside,
And there, the same driveway,
The old garage, still there,
Still full of rubbish,
The same fence, the gate,
Now overgrown by weeds.
I wonder if the neighbors are still there,
Though knowing all the while
It is a dream ...

2:
The Reel OF Time spools backwards,
Back ... back ...
First my two sisters and I
Are teenagers,
Then we are toddlers, then babies ...
We all cry in unison
Over some infantile concern.
Mother is spanking us
For some petty transgression,
And we all scream in unison.
Then, knowing what will be,
Or has already happened,
How the police,
Responding to complaints will come,
That it will be too late,
I stop
The spinning Reel OF Time,
For everything has now become entangled

3:
I break the surface of the ocean,
The great primordial womb,
The cradle, the incubus of Life.
I taste the salt,
Knowing each of us is all of us,
And all of us are one!
How sad, it seems,
That so many still don't know this ...
I am wearing new equipment
That has just now been developed.
I know I will not drown,
And feel a wild and primal freedom
No longer bound by the constraints
Of common sense,
That I can roam the sea and air at will.
I take off,
flying
Through both the water and the air,
And both hear and start to sing a song:
The wind and the sea;
The wind and the sea.
We are one
With the wind and the sea.

4:
Then I awake, startled,
Thinking where I could have heard that.
It was so vivid, so very real, ...
Where could I have heard that,
Where? ... where? ...
The song, in my mind, in my hum,
Ran over and over ...
The Wind and the Sea;
The Wind and the Sea.
We are one
With the Wind and the Sea ... ... ... ...
I'll see if I can find it on the Web.
Jaime

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

theLadypoet
Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 97
Or USA

1 posted 2001-05-31 12:00 PM

Jaime...

Stunning poem!! Mystery, drama...very
effective use of language.
I love it!!

theLadypoet

"A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water..." Eleanor Rooevelt

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

2 posted 2001-05-31 12:15 PM

You know I love this one...I love reading your dreams...deep passionate...wonderful write Jaime

Victoria

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since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

3 posted 2001-05-31 01:29 PM

i can really relate to this one..i just came home from a trip back east..and my sis and i ended up riding thru the old neighborhood where we hadnt rode together in thirty years..the house was gone but the street was still there and some of the other houses...the street seemed alot smaller than it did when we were kids..it was so much fun going back in time with my sis..riding thru the parks we use to walk.
We even surprised a friend of ours by stopping in for a visit..it was great..

~Victoria~

Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-06-01 12:01 PM

Jaime~
What intricate lacing through the layer of this tender write.
I've read it thrice and will undoubtly find a need to do so again.

Impressive emotionalism.
~*Marge*~

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

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

5 posted 2001-06-01 12:12 PM

Well done, Jaime.
Enjoyed reading this.

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

6 posted 2001-06-01 02:01 AM

I love the way you write, yanno?

It is intense and always very dream like. Love it!

Watersign6
Senior Member

since 2001-05-25

Posts 823
Hurricane,WV

7 posted 2001-06-01 06:51 PM

wonderfully written,i enjoyed this one very very much

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

8 posted 2001-06-01 07:44 PM

another great poem jaime....
loved the line
"We all cry in unison"
helen

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

9 posted 2001-07-04 12:01 PM

enjoyed your poem. Well written and expressed.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

10 posted 2001-07-04 12:37 PM

Jaime, you have outdone yourself with this one, and I shall keep this and I have printed it out (hope you don't mind). I always enjoy your writing, but this is exceptional. Happy 4th of July to you. (how did the fancy emails work out?)

If I made you smile today then I did my job!
~* Mysteria *~

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