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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2011-08-09 08:22 PM

Lamentations

I heard her voice for the first time,
And felt my very heart smile.
Though not my first or foremost crime,
It was my first in awhile.
I should rejoice, such blissful calm
I have not held in years;
But stand accursed, forehead to palm,
Besieged by silent fears.

I guess I never noticed a
Comfort to isolation,
Though I’ve grown accustomed to the
Disassociation.
But I, tethered this reservation,
Need no ironclad shackles.
To offer trust indignation,
Or even raise hope’s hackles.

The merit of forgone afterthought,
I close my weary eyes…
Recurrence of dream went for naught,
No longer bringing surprise.
And in this war of weathered faith,
I need no monument
To pass, the visage of a wraith,
Clinging to energies forespent.

As other voices, singing free,
Guide me to softer places –
Remind me of all I long to be,
If but through unseen faces;
Shaping what thought this mind has wrung,
While darkness might confound me
To the sorriest of sad songs sung,
Yet failing to astound me.

Michael Anderson

Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head...

Coolridge

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-08-09 08:46 PM

Silly me, I read the first few lines and thought maybe this would be happy (I know the title was a big clue otherwise) It is still a great poem no matter how you look at it!
Lori

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

2 posted 2011-08-09 11:18 PM

Even in lamentation there can be peace
in the silence of being alone in meditation
of celebrating life and truth.

Excellent expressions of grief, I hope it's just that poetically...

Peace Brother...

JL

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2011-08-10 02:23 PM

I think Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem is one of the most beautiful pieces of music... It played in my mind as I read... that beauty taking a back seat to these touching lamentations.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-08-10 08:35 PM

you are the master at sadness and heartbreak, Michael.

~ If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it. ~

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2011-08-10 11:15 PM

Your poetry - well, I like it. I love how you use words and how they all flow together. Yep, I get the feeling that it evokes, but, mostly, I find it just interesting to read how you put it all together.

A

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2011-08-11 02:44 PM

Michael, it seems that you have walked a long, hard road through fire and storms, but, although it has wounded you, the trials and tribulations have simultaneously strengthened you, and softened hard edges, and that you have emerged with your head held high, an even better and a wiser man with so many wonderful doors opening up for you.

Aside from the beauty of the content, this is yet another of your poems that simply has to be read aloud so as not to miss one iota of the grace and musicality of the rhyme and rhythm.

Owl

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