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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-01-20 04:17 AM

From the laughter of lovers
to the tears of the lost
but the rise and dip graph
cast into past
and the mapping of moods
filed underneath
prevailing conditions.

I stand before you unprepared
the white board empty, stark,
the pointer bent and twisted,
and I cannot speak.

The eyes searching mine
hold to the agenda
of expectation
but I bow unheard
between the pin drops of silence
and keep the ‘so much’ inside.

There’s a promise I have made
beyond this sense of being
that numbs the tongue on past
and turns me to a future
I know will one day be.

So to the eyes that search,
take money for your time.
There is no speech on what was
that ever measures up
to what will surely be!

Helen / 20 January 2008

poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

1 posted 2008-01-20 04:36 AM

beatifull. i like"but the rise and dip graph
cast into past ".

poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

2 posted 2008-01-20 04:38 AM

beautifull. ignore my error

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2008-01-20 08:55 AM

There’s a promise I have made
beyond this sense of being
that numbs the tongue on past
and turns me to a future
I know will one day be.

You always write with great depth and great elegance, dear Helen! I especially love the above quoted stanza ... the trust it holds.

Absolutely beautiful!

love
Margherita

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

4 posted 2008-01-20 09:22 AM

Helen, I wish I had written this or was able to

M

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2008-01-20 02:29 PM

Thank you, poddarku, I greatly appreciate the read and being one prone to finger trouble too I most certainly do excuse your error.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2008-01-20 02:32 PM

Dear Margherita, where would we be without trust even if it is just trust in ourselves? Then again it's perhaps easy to trust what can be seen. The other kind is more difficult but I do have to again ask where we would be without it?

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2008-01-20 02:41 PM

Dear M, Maybe it's just a case of choosing to know but then again it's only time that can tell whether that knowing is a blessing or a curse.

Okay, the secret is to know but not be too bothered as to the "when" and that, believe you me, is a huge challenge I'm still battling with. We do seem to want what we want now but to know we will get it if it's what we truly want brings a measure of peace. And that too comes and goes with the "mood", you know, which just goes to show that ... we are just puppets of the mind - and maybe not only our own minds!

Oops, sorry, must be "soapbox" night.

Helen

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

8 posted 2008-01-20 09:38 PM

Great poem Helen but keep the chin up,

Sunnier days are up ahead, much enjoyed.

Lindsay

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

9 posted 2008-01-21 10:48 AM

Hi, Helen. It is so nice to see your smiling face! I find the following lines exceptionally appealing and meaningful.

~ "I bow unheard
between the pin drops of silence
and keep the ‘so much’ inside."

~ "turns me to a future
I know will one day be."

Love to you, my S.A. friend!

Linda

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

10 posted 2008-01-21 01:41 PM

Thank you Lindsay. We have had a summer of rain but I do know that sunny days will come again.

Linda - Hi! I always enjoy your comments. Thank you and luv to you too.

Helen

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

11 posted 2008-01-22 08:31 PM

I could feel the tightening of my throat, the sweat bead my forehead...the pressure put to look back, when the inclination and the heart points only ahead. Wise words.

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

12 posted 2008-01-30 02:12 AM

Helen,

Such good writing needs to go back up here to the top to be read by others.

This is good - very good.

Alison

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

13 posted 2008-01-30 02:57 AM

Thank you TD and Alison for reading and for commenting. I think we all keep the "so much" inside and I can't help but think it is a pity. Such is life though.

Helen

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

14 posted 2008-01-30 03:06 PM

Very Nice writting Indeed

ARCTIC WIND

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