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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2009-05-07 02:17 PM

I haven’t turned the page
to the new month of May
as if April like my love of you
too hard to let go
but there’s a picture waiting
full glossy spread, I bet
to capture and enclose my heart
in the folds of memory.

And those folds are like a chain
interlocked heavy steel
and it winds around the will to be
unaffected by and indifferent to
the walk and talk, the silence,
the smiles, tears, touch, sight, smell,
of what was in the long ago
a really big event.

Big, oh, big, and how the small
denotes more than I think
when multiplied by months and years
of abstinence
and the page awaits my turning;
every day it waits
for me to squash the big, so big,
into a china thimble
meant merely as adornment.

The past adorns me
though none would deign to see
something beyond the real!

Helen / 7 May 2009

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2009-05-07 02:38 PM

The second verse is really my favorite... Though, the entirety was beautifully written. Thanks for sharing this, it was very much enjoyed.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

2 posted 2009-05-07 03:11 PM

The past adorns me
though none would deign to see
something beyond the real!

The first verse enchanted me... the next two deepened the thrall... but oh... these last lines... straight into my heart! *S*

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2009-05-07 03:50 PM

Thank you Kaoru and Ruth. There are things I'd like to say and many more I'd like to do in this merry month of May but if I don't turn the page then I maybe won't feel sad that none of them were said or done. One can always hope.

Love
Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2009-05-08 01:29 PM

quote:
I haven’t turned the page
to the new month of May
as if April like my love of you
too hard to let go
but there’s a picture waiting
full glossy spread, I bet
to capture and enclose my heart
in the folds of memory.

Dear Helen, you expressed your feelings brilliantly here.

Sometimes it is difficult to let go and move forwards.

Love,
Margherita

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

5 posted 2009-05-08 09:53 PM

Beautiful beautiful work!!

Your first stanza is pure perfection.
Wonderfully captivating poem, Helen dear.

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