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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
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South Africa

0 posted 2004-05-01 06:17 PM


It’s a long time now since the night said hello
sort of slow like a sigh as it builds up inside
with neither a storm nor a whisper of wind
to hasten its journey to the other side.

Impatient at best it hangs silent in air
with the promise of all I’ve yet to believe
like a rock on the edge of love’s rippling brook
immobile remains to suffer and grieve.

I keep night there at the edge of my bed
and see how it darkens then lightens again
as if its own shadow has left to discover  
the means and the way of bearing the pain.

Withdrawn from the centre of happiness
awake but asleep to the answers I seek
night pulls and I shuffle into a dream state
a prisoner released from the jail of defeat.  

Enclosed in night’s arms of unrivaled might
I’m free to believe in the absence of strife!  

Helen

© Copyright 2004 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2004-05-01 07:30 PM


Enclosed in night’s arms of unrivaled might
I’m free to believe in the absence of strife!  



Yes! I am feeling like this too at times.
Beautiful write about the night!
Love, Margherita

Martie
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since 1999-09-21
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2 posted 2004-05-01 09:34 PM


Hi Helen...such a sad feeling comes to me from reading this, you write so well of things human and spirit centered.  
ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
3 posted 2004-05-01 09:42 PM


So wonderful in your heartfelt words the ashes of such sorrow.  Past, and kept to the ridge of ache.
TD

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
4 posted 2004-05-01 09:57 PM


It’s a long time now since the night said hello
sort of slow like a sigh as it builds up inside
with neither a storm nor a whisper of wind
to hasten its journey to the other side.

It's like you're reading my mind, and you just know.

Your poetry does indeed pull at me~
Big hugs,  Helen dear~

icebox
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since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows
5 posted 2004-05-01 11:13 PM


"Enclosed in night’s arms of unrivaled might
I’m free to believe in the absence of strife! "

Amen!


iliana
Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
6 posted 2004-05-02 01:40 AM


What an ode to the night!  Enjoyed, Honeybunch!  
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
7 posted 2004-05-02 02:11 AM


Thank you all so much for reading and commenting!  It's somewhat disturbing when one can't sleep because then one remembers.

Dear Martie, I do like your words "of things human and spirit centered".  Perhaps a good title for my book if you don't mind.

Hi Bluesy,  I guess we're all caught up in the same thing called "life" but sometimes I find myself looking for the exit - frantically looking.  

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
8 posted 2004-05-02 02:42 AM


Amen!
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