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Open Poetry #37

"Not yet/don't know when"

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-04-16 05:44 AM

Today again the “not yet” and the “don’t know when”
runs full-tilt like athletes do around the track of mind
but I’d say they’re somewhat lost, confused and bemused,
between the last goodbye and a new starting point
yet I watch them all the same with the intensity of soul
now individualized through a parting of the ways.

There’s a uselessness inside because I can’t wave a flag
and direct the speed and flow of this determined run
or call a halt to hope gliding happy in the slipstream
in tandem with a need so long been in me.

So run, run, run around, this “not yet/don’t know when”
and I’ll be your spectator on the sidelines looking in
but don’t expect a cheer for the many years of tears
because silent is the voice of abandonment.

“Not yet/don’t know when” perhaps a gentle lie
falling too softly to make itself be heard
but I listen, listen, every day to what the angels say
and the silence of their words fills the void of isolation
wherein sleeps the child born of love’s desire.

Sleep, sleep, little one, count each night a sigh
and when they’re numbered to the sky,
you can choose to die!

Helen / 16 April 2006
(It must just be the April air - heavy, heavy, heavy)

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2006-04-16 01:13 PM

I agree, must be the April wind...

nothing like circles, I hate when that
happens.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2006-04-16 02:34 PM

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2006-04-16 03:39 PM

Honeybunch
It must be the April air.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2006-04-16 03:57 PM

Thanks guys and gal!

No harm done by blaming it on the air - it's not as if it has ears but I think May will be good so here's hoping.

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