Cleansing Day .................................OF#11......

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-06-08 01:00 PM

Cleansing Day

oddly, today is the day
I shall clean
~ my mental house ~
~ my feeling heart ~
~ my memory banks ~

in my mental house
truth and realization
beckon me to
white dreams
and to lay aside
the black of being sorry
and sorrows of what
happenings weren't to
happen, and what
was not to be

do not set aside
just one day to atone
for the sins of wants
and needs and desires…

you know the ones I mean…
the ones you shouldn't take
that don't belong to you

instead

go toward the bluish light
of white, that which you
can aspire to, in grace
and ritual and aspiration
of right…

should a hand reach out
to take mine…in comfort or
in company…(whether it's giving
or receiving)
it is ok to accept it
for the moment
to remember to give it
back to those
who own it

my feeling heart
has lent itself to maligning times
and propitious twinklings ~
breaking (hearts break) only as
brakes were applied to
moments of rejection and
fallacies, over good gone bad
and bad just going gone

and I have gained
in the losses and expedited
rejection toward better
moments, where my heart
could mend then wend its
way toward others in an
effort to walk them
through this hall of quaking
(hearts quake)
just so we could get to
the other side…
and I have traveled it alone
many a time…
so why does trepidation make
my heart beat (hearts beat) faster
even when I know
I need not fear fear…

now to dust away the cobs and
webs from my memory banks…
oh sometime so leaden
with memories until
a key unlatches just the right
bank
and gold spills forth
in memories and sounds
and smells and feels
and that rush of
life…

so this is the most
precious of the cleaning, that
which to discard, which to keep
and like old magnetic tapes that
are bent and LP's that have
a scratch,

I examine each and every
one that comes to the surface
with this cleaning
just to make sure
there is no hope
for resurrecting
any of that particular memory…

ah but those that make me feel
so good…
those I keep in soft folds of
comfort and warmth

I keep them in smells of Old Spice
and Canoe, Tabu and Chanel…
and baking bread on a Monday
morning
I keep them wrapped in rays
of golden sunlight playing halos
in a child's hair,
I keep them in your
wide open eyes,
with butterflies laughter
carrying them away to the safest
memory bank I have…

and for safekeeping, I polish
the key with some spit and shine
and place it safely in my heart till
needed next,
then write myself a note
and place THAT in my mental house

so that I might find it from time to
time,
(Reminder to KJ - clean house)
so that whenever
anything other than
a cleaning is required,
like a friend who needs me,
then I might find
and share these moments

with you
in a clean house.

01.08.01

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2001-06-08 01:05 PM

It's nice to see you with such a clean mental house, feeling heart and memory banks.
Now I know where I cam go for advice......great write Karilea! Lot's of points for all to consider!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2001-06-08 01:19 PM

Karilea,
This is a treat and I'm so glad I read it.
*L* Sy

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2001-06-08 02:04 PM

I wonder why everyone is thinking of cleansing, Karilea. I haven't been reading only posted today and now I see other poems with similar titles...maybe not exactly the same meanings..but I enjoyed your...*s...mine was a spur of the moment washing of my thoughts...although, it probably won't succeed..

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2001-06-08 02:07 PM

cleaning or cleansing...
all is perspective.. Nicely done!

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-06-08 04:22 PM

We;re all clean, all of us women of Passions....clean and beautiful ...whoo hoo

join the club, I love this.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2001-06-08 04:56 PM

Oh, I just love this look inside your house, my friend. What a great poem!

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

7 posted 2001-06-24 02:45 PM

Ethome, so glad you took time out to see me while the house was neat...oftentimes it's befuddled with thoughts...thank you!

Sy, you ARE a treat! thank you...

Wynter...you are a success, every time you try...anything! You KNOW that!

Cpat Hair...all is perspective, indeed!...

Irish...the clubhouse is OPEN...

Thank you our Martie!

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