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Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa

0 posted 2008-01-03 04:26 AM


There is no mist of time
in the clarity of mind
but clouded so with work-a-days
and nights of unknown bliss
it is as if it’s swamp-like
and murky to the depths.

And one can drown face down
if not for the turn-around
up and unto the perceived
saving grace of time
that moves like a lover’s hands
o’er the commonplace.

Yet and yet time like a train
switches tracks and disappears
into its immediate creation
that leaves a woman standing
on cold and heartless concrete
bewildered and confused
at how the now can be.

The next one comes straight and true;
she boards the love of you
and travels through the countryside
still yet to arrive and disembark
at Clarity!

Helen / 3 January 2008


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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
1 posted 2008-01-03 10:34 AM


I know about those trains

sometimes they go way too slow for me

good to read you, love the pic

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2008-01-03 10:43 AM


Thank you Dixie!  Yes, the train is slow but it thankfully does chugs along.  So good to see you back here!  


Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
3 posted 2008-01-03 04:59 PM


quote:
up and unto the perceived
saving grace of time
that moves like a lover’s hands
o’er the commonplace.



Gosh, this is awesome!!!

There are those moments of clarity that make us blessed.

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049
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4 posted 2008-01-03 07:47 PM


Hi Helen....

"The next one comes straight and true;
she boards the love of you
and travels through the countryside
still yet to arrive and disembark
at Clarity!"

Wonderful!  

JLHunter
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since 2006-10-08
Posts 557
CA United States
5 posted 2008-01-06 03:04 PM


Hi, Honeybunch.

I've had entire relationships that were well described in that last stanza!  Oh, well.  I'm done searching and soon to be "tied down!"

Anyhow, great, though-provoking write.

John

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

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