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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
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0 posted 2004-04-14 01:57 PM


I look up today as I did yesterday;
the promise of rain has gone far away    
in search of a land where mankind avows
seeds of true love have died in the ground.    

But it’s love when I feel a stirring within  
arise from the depths of my worldly sin    
and shoot past the pain of long ago days
packed solidly round the base of dismay.  

I look up today as I did yesterday
calmed by the sight of unhindered terrain
that instinctively knows how to satisfy needs
and bring to fruition a bud from a seed.      

And as I send up my wish for release
I see how it fragments from its centerpiece
and spreads evenly between realities
like a hug for a child, a kiss for the weak.

I look up today as I did yesterday
but I don’t expect rain to fall here today
for way over there, somewhere over there,
so many more seeds lie thirsty and bare.        

But a shower, a drop, a promise for me,
to help me believe my seeds will receive!  

Helen


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1 posted 2004-04-14 02:41 PM


this is really wonderful
Honeybunch
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2 posted 2004-04-14 04:42 PM


Thanks so much, Sea!
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