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Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa

0 posted 2004-05-11 04:05 AM


Not far from here lies the will of the mighty
silent like night giving way to the day
in wait and awake to receive messages
and process our dreams into reality.  

But the power of them lazy sometimes
reclines between tiers in t-shirt and jeans
relaxed in the knowledge of better for all
and immune to the call of immediate action.

Arise - but they can’t from the purpose of life
to show, lead, and guide, those weak of mind
to the sky of acceptance of fate, destiny,
intended to ripen the fruit of a soul.  

The will of the mighty; how lazy thou art
until I can know, pray, say, and believe,
and so of a dream how can it be real
when too I am silent from day into night?

Arise – but I can’t from tall stakes of fear
pegged and secured in my comfort zone
and too I’ve been known to recline lazy sometimes
immune to the call of soul’s need of more.

Last night from sleep I heard my own voice
and I asked of no one, no one I could see,
“Why am I waking up now, tell me please”
and an almighty silence answered me back!

Helen / 11 May 2004
  


© Copyright 2004 Helen - All Rights Reserved
MERCURY
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since 2003-04-16
Posts 190
Ireland
1 posted 2004-05-11 04:34 AM


“Why am I waking up now, tell me please”
and an almighty silence answered me back!

Fantastic imagery
Well done - great poem.


TerryW
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since 2000-03-23
Posts 779
Louisville, Mississippi, USA
2 posted 2004-05-11 05:07 AM


Absoultely Astounding!

Wonderful imagery.  This is beautiful,and a stirring wake-up call if I ever heard one!

~you reached inside, you touched my heart,
and I am all the better for it~
Terry A. Woodson, Jr.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2004-05-11 08:36 AM


Thank you so much for reading, Mercury and TerryW.  Yes, a wake up call but to what remains to be seen - oh, presuming I'm aware enough to "see" that is.
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
4 posted 2004-05-11 12:17 PM


never know about these kinds of things

vision comes in strange ways sometimes

Startime55
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since 2003-04-05
Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada
5 posted 2004-05-11 12:19 PM


WOW!!!You touch the soul of with this poem...It is so powerful in its need that it brought tears to my eyes....

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
6 posted 2004-05-11 01:14 PM


Thanks, passing shadows.  You are very wise!

Startime55 - I'm sorry about the tears but emotion does tell us that we are alive so perhaps not such a bad thing.

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