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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-08-31 03:02 AM

From out Pandora’s box there flew
the questions, answers, thoughts, feelings,
and I gathered them like woman do
within the confines of review.

Laid start to end they made no sense
so I shuffled them like cards, you know,
and fanned them round as if to deal
the truth into mind’s memory.

But soon the truth became o’er laid
with my opponents cards from hell
and who can find the absolute
when past perceptions resolute?

So I tried to stack them neatly so
back into where they should remain
but once let out an unmatched pile
exceeds the boundaries of mind.

Today they walk in single file
in the ether of what’s still to be
bearing all and getting more
until ne’er again a “once before”.

But what of mind that can’t discard
the deal of life’s most hellish cards?

Helen / 31 August 2010

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2010-08-31 04:14 AM

Dear Helen, you are such a great Poet and a great analyser of the mind and psyche. We live in this duality and will always "struggle" to hear the voice of truth deep inside. You know it is there and it is deeply comforting, always.

Very creative too!

Love,
Margherita

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2010-08-31 07:44 AM

Thanks, dear Margherita.

First to the sea and then the trees
but then it came down just to me
alone upon this landfill, earth,
to grant the truth a happy birth.

It's complicated, don't you know,
and the birthing process far too slow
yet for all the shrugs of shoulders, head,
I labour on towards the end!

Helen

Andrew Scott
Member Elite

since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

3 posted 2010-08-31 05:48 PM

I think I've used that deck a time or two. I like the way you delt this one out... but you are always the consummate dealer.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2010-09-01 03:16 AM

Thank you, Andrew. I guess we all at some time or other in our lives deal and fold over and over again until we realize what a waste of time it is.

Helen

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

5 posted 2010-09-01 07:38 AM

I think that we all suffer from this problem at one time or another. Using cards to address this predictament was quite clever.

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