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Honeybunch
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0 posted 2006-11-08 04:06 AM


Today is the day I cry for the sun
alone in the blue, blue, sky
as it burns from the inner out
an intense and forever innate
abiding and timeless love.

There are clouds on the far horizon
bent and bunched in predator mode
waiting like world evilness
to blanket the heat of desire
and topple the beautiful sun
into a grey, grey, sky.

And too in the fierce fire and ice
of a life’s so petty hand-outs
a woman knows, has always known,
that no matter the thunder and rain
the beautiful sun will shine again.

But I cry for the sun and for love
today, this day, of another new age
that smothers the young in me!

Helen / 8 November 2006


© Copyright 2006 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Enchantress
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1 posted 2006-11-08 01:15 PM


"But I cry for the sun and for love
today, this day, of another new age
that smothers the young in me!"

Ah, glad I'm not the only nostalgic one when it comes time for another birthday!
A most excellent write, from an excellent poet!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN!


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2 posted 2006-11-08 01:50 PM


Yes ! Everything that my sister Enchantress said.
Hugging you here, Chris

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Honeybunch
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3 posted 2006-11-08 02:06 PM


Nancy and Chris - thank you so very much for the birthday wishes.  Birthdays are wonderful for bringing everyone together but I really wish they wouldn't come around quite so quickly.  I live to tell the tale and for that I'm extremely grateful!
secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2006-11-08 04:42 PM


Even if this is a essentially a poem about dealin' with birtdays (time and change; etc.)....I feel that,....there is also much 'food' for additional 'private interpretation' here:  innate...intense....
eternal...abiding Love'...burnin' like the sun!...[wow!...thermonuclear love-fusion!] versus the ever-darklin 'clouds' of petty human folly and evils (negative motiviations, priorities, endeavors; etc.) and the ever-greying 'mediocracy' which seems to be the 'social norm' descending on 'modern' societies world-wide....ever intent on stifling 'individuality'.... Along with the lovely imagery, there may be many important 'nested' messages and warnings here...and, the grand call for every 'unique spirit' to unabashedly, unswearvingly march toward that'morning star'...to the fine cadence of whatever 'different drum' may call!

secondhanddreampoet
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5 posted 2006-11-08 04:43 PM


Even if this is a essentially a poem about dealin' with birtdays (time and change; etc.)....I feel that,....there is also much 'food' for additional 'private interpretation' here:  innate...intense....
eternal...abiding Love'...burnin' like the sun!...[wow!...thermonuclear love-fusion!] versus the ever-darklin 'clouds' of petty human folly and evils (negative motiviations, priorities, endeavors; etc.) and the ever-greying 'mediocracy' which seems to be the 'social norm' descending on 'modern' societies world-wide....ever intent on stifling 'individuality'.... Along with the lovely imagery, there may be many important 'nested' messages and warnings here...and, the grand call for every 'unique spirit' to unabashedly, unswearvingly march toward that'morning star'...to the fine cadence of whatever 'different drum' may call!

Honeybunch
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6 posted 2006-11-09 12:53 PM


Secondhanddreampoet - I just have to place on record here my appreciation of your most astounding ability to read and interpret.  Not many can or have the time to go "under cover" as it were and then openly state what the poem meant to them.  Thank you so much  - it's opinions and/or reviews like this that make writing worthwhile.

Helen

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