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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2007-05-15 01:47 PM


Between heaven and earth a chasm is stretched
open and wide like the smile of our youth
determined to catch God’s given worth
and refresh imaginative minds.

Pour oil and I slip backward in time,
water plays havoc with feet on the ground,
but the chasm waits like a lover in love
to shiver through bodies creative intent.

To break from the old is to fall, fall, fall,
into the chasm of innovation  
that designs and builds from the bottom up
a unique and new manner of being.

But the path is blocked by the forest and me
as if life would preclude a renewal of thought
and this capture and hold of minds in boredom
a betrayal of our magnificence.

And the you and me likewise entwined
can’t see that the chasm no abyss feared
but a plain and simple hole for the soul
where men and women still fear to go.

Refresh, renew, revitalize, mend,
but rekindled sparks sizzle, snap, crack,
and burn the brushwood of love’s malady
as quick as a flash and just like that.

So burn, baby, burn and come out an adult;
it doesn’t take sticks to light a new fire!
  
Helen / 15 May 2007


© Copyright 2007 Helen - All Rights Reserved
LeeJ
Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

1 posted 2007-05-15 02:10 PM


to believe in oneself becomes the sapphire


you are dressed in all hues today, prolific pastels  

enjoyed this

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2007-05-15 06:05 PM


Enjoyed...James
iliana
Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
3 posted 2007-05-16 01:56 PM


Nope, it doesn't take stick!  A little oil helps though....*grins*   Enjoyed this, Helen.  Hope you are well, my friend.   ...jo
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2007-05-16 02:45 PM


Thanks to all for your kind comments.  Very much appreciated.

Jo - I'm well thank you.  I'm off tomorrow to listen to the rumble and roar of the sea!

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