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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2009-12-19 01:31 AM

How like life to twist the truth
into knots of little use
and glue and staple them in place
as an extra safety measure.

Come the fingers deft and sly
but up to now not yet tried
for years it takes to plot and plan
an attack on all the knots inside.

The fingers have been twiddling thumbs
in the safety of old comfort zones
and ‘tis the twiddle, twiddle, thumbs
that tire of such attention.

And so they leave the stretch and reach
of fingers lost in plot and plan
and stand apart entrenched within
the truth made known and visible.

Fingers, fingers, numbered eight
cut adrift from truth and light
stumble in the gap between
what is and what should be.

I feel for fingers numbered eight
lost so within the in-between
but they will mutate and grow
according to the place they’re at.

But who would grow in no-man’s land
that neither was and nor will be?

Helen / 19 December 2009

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2009-12-19 10:06 AM

Excellent question....enjoyed the read.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2009-12-19 12:07 PM

Thanks, Magnus. Some people don't know that they're growing in the wrong place but it's not for me to tell them. I do, of course, in my way but all to no avail.

Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2009-12-19 01:19 PM

No one uses this kind of language better than you, dear Helen. Always thought provoking and psychologically profound.

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2009-12-19 02:10 PM

Dear Margherita - I find myself very often wondering whose language it is and have come to the conclusion that it's mine from another place and time. I'd like to find that time and place, you know.

Lots of love
Helen

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

5 posted 2009-12-20 08:10 PM

Enjoyed the read dear Helen.

Merry Christmas to all, Love.

Lindsay

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

6 posted 2010-01-02 09:12 PM

Helen,

Such wonderful use of words - I like this poem and am glad that my thumbs and fingers seem to dance well together. Not always, but for the moment anyway.

A

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