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Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

0 posted 2011-03-15 12:52 PM

I turned
the clock back,
the
other day,
back,
to the
beginning.

Back before
faults
were sins
to man
and waves
were
lions
that roared
at
the innocent,
in swells
of
silence
that
walked
on the land
and took
back
what
it gave,
without
caution
or caveat
with, fear
of the
evil
to the valley,
of depth.

Weekends
weren’t
meant,
to be
an ending,
of tombs
without blossoms,
or funerals
of morning
floating
down avenues,
of never to be
mothers
and buoys
that
were once
boys
now
food
of fate
to the yen
of
a sea
of avidity.

Yesterday
never told
them,
they’d be
sleeping
on beds
of sand
and gravestone,
these
cries
without listeners,
houseboats
of wailers,
submarines
that
were once
planes,
a dog
paddling
to the
forever,
of its
master.

Where
are
the pieces,
that now,
are still
missing,
the note
of forgivenss
to the wife
of a
husband,
the pictures
of friends
that
we’re
finally,
going to
meet,
a glove
and
a ball
for a
son,
on his
birthday, and
a poem
to a woman
who never
knew,
who
never knew.

These treasures
and words
are now
sposato
al mare,
a couple
coalesced
in death
due in part,
woven
in vow
by arrangement
of serendipity,
deep
in the bowels,
of trial
and trance.

Time
is written,
in tears
not years,
a river
of sadness
that now
raises
the sea,
yes, wicked
oh wicked
this way,
sometimes
comes,
and
swallows
the blood,
of a
rising
sun.

The winds
they
do howl
these days
unfurled,
where
water
is birth
and hell,
is whirled.

The rainbow
is
black
to the
soul
of
the east
now
and at
the hour
of their
life,
released.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2011-03-15 08:18 PM

Dear Richy, this is extremely poignant and beautifully written. I am sitting here in silent contemplation of the images and situations you evoked ...

Thank you for this heart touching and compassionate write.

oh ... and "sposato al mare" came as a familiar, yet surprising sound, carrying such deep meaning.

Love,
Margherita

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

2 posted 2011-03-15 08:48 PM

Deep and thought provoking, enjoyed!
Kat =^..^=

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2011-03-16 11:24 AM

so many thoughts from this...just know I love it

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

4 posted 2011-03-16 05:38 PM

Dixie, just know that what more could I ask for?

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

5 posted 2011-03-17 11:42 AM

Margy, Margy, you are the sweetest! Thank you dear friend for always making me smile.

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

6 posted 2011-03-17 11:44 AM

Karen you are my most favorite Kitty.

Thanks for visiting my words.

Richard

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2011-03-17 12:05 PM

Hi Richard - Now I'm sad but such a ... yes, thought provoking poem that touches through the sadness. Well done, Mr. Poet. Now please can we have more romantic ones?

Helen

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

8 posted 2011-03-17 12:08 PM

Romantic Helen??

Never been all that good at it, but for you I will try okay.

Thanks dear one.

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