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

0 posted 2005-07-24 03:52 AM


Oh, this land is thirsty; my garden grows no rose
and all I do is kick up the dust of memory  
and it rises to my eyes so many times I find
to hasten my retreat from all I once believed
but only partly so until winter is complete.  

Past crackles underfoot in resist of disavowal,
the sun says, “Look at me – still and always here”
while the blue, so blue, of sky shoots darts into my heart
like cupid in the mystical “everything’s alright”
signs and seals a pact before love becomes a fact.

The sky is writing volumes no one can ever read
when dust overlays the budding of new growth
but soon the clouds, the rain, the love,
spring, summer, and the sweating out
of all the little things …
until the crackle underfoot
of brand new memories.  

Oh, this land is thirsty; my body holds no soul,
and all I do is pick up the memory of a rose!

Helen / 24 July 2005

(... and memories of the blue pages that keep me coming back)

© Copyright 2005 Helen - All Rights Reserved
redheart angrybraids
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since 2000-04-16
Posts 410
honolulu, hawaii
1 posted 2005-07-24 07:06 AM


this poem is so passionat in its moment
it is beatiful
kindly,
amelia

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2005-07-24 08:30 AM


Thank you Amelia.  Passion, I guess, is the mainstay of life because without it there'd never be a summer ... of love!
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