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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-02-07 09:33 AM

The grass grows high and higher
in the fields of “could have been”
and a walk around the meadow
sinks feet into the feel
of soft and silent tears
dropping to their knees
like servants to my fear.

Once upright, proud and righteous
they thought to never plead
until thought became possessed
of a better way to be
and I can understand
their disoriented feel
because fortune never smiles
on tears told to leave.

But they went and they bent
into authenticity
and squeezed a million years
of tearful energy
into the lines and pages
of nonconformist poetry.

“There’s a story?” he asked
and I said, “Don’t look at me.
The charge of trespass comes to bear
on he who doesn’t feel
and there in the distance
beyond where I can see
the judgment and the sentence;
“God help you all and me - please."

Oh, and stories walk the line of time;
they’re like goblins dressed in blue
scampering in and out
of lifetime reviews
scribbling this and that, debating the facts,
and changing points of view.

Then comes the day of soul refrains
and the feel of wishful times
simply bridesmaids at the altar
of the world’s heady lies
but now the bride of future love
walks desire’s fulsome white
down the green of inner needs
grown higher, higher, high!

Helen / 7 February 2006

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

1 posted 2006-02-07 10:15 AM

sounds as if we, you and I are of the same mindset today...
well done poetess, enjoyed this emensly

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

2 posted 2006-02-07 10:45 AM

yes, i too enjoyed this. thaks

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

3 posted 2006-02-07 12:13 PM

“God help you all and me - please."

Another wonderful write Helen.

JL

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2006-02-07 12:19 PM

The analogy is superb, Helen! I like this one very much! Oh, if only, the grass didn't grow so tall.....

.....jo

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2006-02-07 12:47 PM

Thanks to all for the read. We've had so much rain here that the parks department can't get to cutting the grass and this makes walking my dogs difficult for me - and that's apart from the poem's real issue that also makes life difficult. Oh, yes, it's all just a test of strength no doubt - I'm failing dismally.

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