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Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa

0 posted 2004-08-01 06:39 PM


When the moon is full
and the wind drops to still
and the trees stand somber and dark,
my heart cries in vain for the bearer of pain
unable to carry the weight of despair
to the sea of a mere happening.

But a happening folds the contours of soul
into a bundle of woe
and twists the fibers of inner resolve
till inert we lie on the floor
betwixt and between the then and the now
like a baby before its first cry.

And it pays to remember no angel with wings
sings happiness to the deprived
or lands a cent, a dollar, or more
into the hands of the poor.

There are no angels or goblins and gnomes
in the wings waiting to sing
until the burden from shoulders is dropped  
and we freely can bend to retrieve a sea shell.

With feet on the sand and sea shell in hand
I watch how the sea rolls to shore
and brings back again in memory bags
the weight of a human’s despair.  

Of memory then it flows evermore
like a river down to the sea
till love in the air stirs up a breeze
and blows all the pain away.

I turn from the sea and look into the air  
in my need to be weightless and free
for air, like love, unseen has the power
to uplift the burdens from spirit and flesh.

The air of love; how softly it blows
to make me believe it’s not even here!


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Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
1 posted 2004-08-01 06:42 PM


Such a beautiful write...
I so much enjoyed reading this today...thank you.
Hugs~

~ Live every sunrise like it's your first.
  Watch every sunset like it's your last. ~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2004-08-01 06:49 PM


Thank you, Enchantress, for the read.  I hope you can carry into your "today" the thought that perhaps there's more in the air than we can believe.  It seems like that to me now just past the midnight hour here.
Martie
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3 posted 2004-08-01 07:04 PM


Helen

There are things that we can't see...they are all around, some wonderful and some not...yes, love is there too.  A beautiful poem, full of thought, as you are.  

iliana
Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
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USA
4 posted 2004-08-01 07:46 PM


"I turn from the sea and look into the air  
in my need to be weightless and free
for air, like love, unseen has the power
to uplift the burdens from spirit and flesh.

The air of love; how softly it blows
to make me believe it’s not even here!"

Helen, this is a gorgeous write.  I hear your heart.  The change is brought about by the intensity of this kind of love.  I don't know quite how to explain it; love so encompassing that it holds our soul tests the validity of who we are and brings about growth and change; whether we get to keep that love or not, who knows.  The important thing is that it has been gifted or that we gifted.  There are reasons for everything.  Keep the faith.   ....jo


whiskey
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5 posted 2004-08-01 08:36 PM


This is beautiful very much enjoyed reading it
Foxyoasis
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since 2003-06-10
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Atlantic Beach,Fla
6 posted 2004-08-01 08:38 PM


enjoyed I know your feeing all to well.

Fool me once shame on you.....Fool me twice shame on me.....


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