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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-11-28 01:29 AM


The dial of time turns slowly round
like the abandoned turn again
to face the world of men
as warriors and labourers,
peacemakers, lovers, friends,
and stand upon a pedestal
as beautiful dream makers.

It's always the abandoned
that must carve a better end
and create the new improved
to overlay the old.  

And the abandoned dream
of the better and the best
and thereby expunge  
the, oh, so plaintiff cries
of the now ill-fated.

Dream on, I say, like I do
for all dreams are fashioned, made,
to set down grooves and channels
for the holding and directing
of life-force energies.

And who's the fairest of them all,
the seedy, sleazy, strings
of the same old, same old,
or the boundless potential
of the forever beautiful
dream makers of the world?

Helen / 27 November 2010


© Copyright 2010 Helen - All Rights Reserved
easy1
Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209
Southeastern USA
1 posted 2010-11-28 07:59 AM


Please pardon me for saying so, but this is a beautiful exposition on God and Mammon. Very intuitive. Thank you!
JerryPat
Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991
Louisiana/America
2 posted 2010-11-28 08:54 AM


Dreams are for real
Life you must peel
Down to its zeal
It's a big deal

. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

Andrew Scott
Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA
3 posted 2010-11-30 12:22 PM


Beautifully expressed. Once again, I stand in awe.

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

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2010-11-30 12:45 PM


Thanks everyone for your comments - and Andrew, I'm just "honouring" life and all it's many experiences and I guess I have to feel them to be able to express them.  Not perhaps what I would wish for myself.

Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
5 posted 2010-12-01 07:03 PM


Dreams are the foundation of reality.

To abandon them is like stopping evolution.

Your exquisite words reflect your beautiful mind, dear Helen.

Love,
Margherita

ethome
Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
6 posted 2010-12-02 11:47 PM


Love it Helen.
Yep dreams are the glue of the future. The reason for moving forward with hope.

Thoroughly enjoyable read.

Eric

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
7 posted 2010-12-03 04:04 AM


From one dreamer to another I think this is one of your best ever.
                              ida

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