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Honeybunch
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0 posted 2005-12-19 06:18 PM


She comes from the right side
of sweet tinsel town
where the roads have been paved
with the sweat from her brow
and she travels in step with need and desire
down to the sea, the sea of her dreams.

She sits on a rock like a thinker in stone
numb to the beauty of all that she knows
until the tide rises up and brings on a wave  
the pros and cons of moving her toes.

And the seagulls screech in mournful release
like a death-bell resounding inside of her head
and through this cacophony of useless sound
the wind screams out, “Go, find the gold!”

Silent night, silent night, but no heavenly peace
crashes to shore with the one she adores
so she goes to the gold on the other side
of who she is and what she stands for.

And the seagulls screech in mournful release
because gold isn’t gold but rather her soul
lost now on the wrong side of sweet tinsel town!

Helen / 20 December 2005


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Marge Tindal
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1 posted 2005-12-19 06:29 PM


Helen~
There is such a poignancy to the imagery in this piece~

You are certainly a feeling poetess~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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let me know when it is LOVE that I find*~ <))><

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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
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2 posted 2005-12-19 06:31 PM


Thanks for the read, Marge.  Oh, she doth feel too much, me thinks!  
Happy holidays!
Helen

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