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Like bark to a tree
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Like bark to a tree |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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Like bark to a tree I stick to my view though it withers away in the sun unrelenting in an everyday rise that threatens a coming undone. So stands this view unable to kneel to the bear-down of a strong hand laid hard and most unforgiving on the head of a gentle woman. Rise, oh sun, rise up and burn there is heart that resists the feel and the blister and pucker result a slight and surface testimony. No matter the place where everyone stays trees are as different as you and me bound same to ground but reaching for sky and letting the shade fall free. And each/every tree under the heat filters the pain to make the shade for viewpoints to sprout and spread into a strange and mystical glade. But the bark of a view undone by you stubbornly sticks when it is true! Helen / 3 March 2007 |
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Janette
since 2001-07-20
Posts 2843Chicagoland for now |
"filters the pain to make the shade for viewpoints to sprout and spread" The analogy in this piece goes deeper than just the "surface testimony." I could feel "the pain" with a hope for "shade." Interesting write, well done Helen, enjoyed. always seeking joy, adventure and romance and wishing you find the same |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thanks Janette. Most things go deeper than one would suppose. I wanna have bark and not skin!  |
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RavenSmith Member
since 2007-03-02
Posts 53Oregon |
Exquisite poem! Loved this! I like to write with symbolism of nature too. This is an all around, wonderful poem. "unrelenting in an everyday rise that threatens a coming undone" ~Raven ~Best Regards,Raven Smith |
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Rick Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 2903Victoria, Australia |
Helen, when words turn into pictures and imagination comes into play, the poem is special, I read it twice and enjoyed each time, thank you for sharing my friend. Rick |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Great poem, Helen. Bark would be helpful sometimes, surely!  ....jo |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Raven - Thank you so much for the read and for your kind comment. Greatly appreciated. Rick - Two reads! Wow! Thank you! Hi Jo - yes, bark surely would come in handy sometimes. Hope all is well with you - mail is on the way when the troubles go away!  |
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