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A silent speech
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A silent speech |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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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 |
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poddarku Senior Member
since 2008-01-15
Posts 589india |
beatifull. i like"but the rise and dip graph cast into past ". |
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poddarku Senior Member
since 2008-01-15
Posts 589india |
beautifull. ignore my error |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
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  |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
Helen, I wish I had written this or was able to  M |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you, poddarku, I greatly appreciate the read and being one prone to finger trouble too I most certainly do excuse your error. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
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?  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
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 |
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LindsayP Member Elite
since 2007-07-28
Posts 3410Australia, Victoria |
Great poem Helen but keep the chin up, Sunnier days are up ahead, much enjoyed. Lindsay |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
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  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
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 |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
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. |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Helen, Such good writing needs to go back up here to the top to be read by others. This is good - very good. Alison |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
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 |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
Very Nice writting Indeed ARCTIC WIND |
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