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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-11-21 02:53 PM

The knife is sharp that cuts the cloth
once draped like love around the heart
and as it lies now tattered, torn,
I think of how a woman mourns.

I think but know ‘tis not a thing
each one and all befitted for
because a knife, saw, blade, hatchet,
designed and made just simply so
to turn the eyes back down to ground.

The ground is hard, unyielding, stiff;
though cracks appear it never shifts
and all who stand and walk thereon
mere products of a living hell.

And a living hell ne’er sizzles, cracks,
but silently erodes the will
and ‘tis the will to love that dies
on a pyre of indifference.

Indifferent stands a woman now;
there once was love but knives abound
and when as now the last cut, slice,
no mourners stand at the graveside.

The rain falls heavy on the scene
but upturned lips say, “Look at me”
and should you look you’ll see no sign
of cloth like love draped round the heart.

The heart beats quicker in denial
fulsome, free and puffed with pride
that in the cold it still is whole
and able to survive the times!

Helen / 21 November 2008

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

1 posted 2008-11-22 03:49 AM

gosh Helen.. you leave me breathless with your beautiful writes... love and hugs RDB xx

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2008-11-22 05:24 PM

awww all those knives, I am phobic of knives...,

but in your poem's context I understand you used them for a certain purpose.

How reassuring, dear Helen Poetess, that the heart is still whole and will survive and LOVE will live and expand within it again.

A truly great write.

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Callista
Member

since 2008-10-05

Posts 63
USA

3 posted 2008-11-22 11:40 PM

This is superb. Such skillful use of language. "A living hell ne'er sizzles..."
Powerful stuff!

"The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line.."

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2008-11-23 12:20 PM

Thanks, dear poet friends, for your comments. Though a heart be heavy Sunday calls and I'm off to enjoy it all.

Helen

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