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Open Poetry #40

My place above the plains

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2007-06-16 08:29 AM

When the breath is shallow
and new days beget a sigh
the place that I believe in
sinks despairingly
into a heartless construct
of muscle, fat, and bone.

And when I think I have it all
explosions rack the love
until to dust the bricks, mortar,
of intuitive insight.

Very well to say; days have many ways
and breath unbidden enters
soul’s ready-made capacity
to see the beauty that is you
and my place rises up again
intensely visible.

This is my castle, home, fortress,
too high above the plains of life
for you to sit and sup with me
today, tomorrow, on unto
the mental twist and shake
of what surely must await.

I told you all I could and more
but when I looked behind
I saw you’d walked away
in the middle of my sentence.

To not know or see, feel, believe,
fuels the fire that lays to ash
the trail once mapped and laid
to my place above the plains!

Helen / 16 June 2007

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2007-06-16 10:37 AM

intense write...I liked this

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2007-06-16 02:55 PM

Thanks so much, Susan.

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