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Honeybunch
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0 posted 2005-01-05 01:52 AM


Poor and needy, lonely, sad!  
Come!  Barter happiness
for a bag of trinkets
as a fillip and incentive
to frolic with the false.

Tendered as real currency,
maybe there is love
somewhere in the wrapping
of the bigger picture,  
but no imaginative flow
or fingers of the soul
can find a buried treasure
when heart belies the fact.

On stepping stones of heart
over rivers of deceit
to banks of certain truth
a rocky journey arduous
for the poor and lonely, weak,
until pennies fall from heaven …
but I know that cannot be.

Pennies, cents, and dollars,
the currency of life,
not viable in heaven
or the maybe/perhaps
lifetime after death
but without a money crutch
heart becomes a tinkling harp
in the big brass band
of reality’s demands.

And I see my heart falling
down, down, down,
to the depths of heartlessness
decreed as a means
of skimming surface needs
until pennies fall from heaven
like the advent of true love …
but I know that cannot be
because I lost my heart to you!


© Copyright 2005 Helen - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
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1 posted 2005-01-05 07:49 AM


good piece

love the ending

Ericc
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2 posted 2005-01-06 04:19 PM


You captured the mood and the moment perfectly and with great beauty.

Eric

Honeybunch
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3 posted 2005-01-06 04:52 PM


Thank you Dixie and Eric for the read.  Yes, life is but a series of moments some passing too soon and others not quickly enough.
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4 posted 2005-01-06 05:51 PM


Great write Helen!

~Alli~

Happy 2005!

Honeybunch
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5 posted 2005-01-06 11:43 PM


Thank you Alli!
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6 posted 2005-01-11 04:27 AM


awesome


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