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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-12-05 12:53 PM

There are things to keep
and things to let go
and they jumble themselves
into a disordered mess
knotted and twisted
and intertwined
like the past, present, future,
all jointly combined.

To start at one end
and attempt the unravel
a nightmare not e'er to cease
when soul unleashed and set free
to be where it was, where it is now,
and where it is going to.

And the fingers know well
how to let it all lie
until the dawn of mental dexterity
that sifts and sorts and discards
the glittering stars of the past
and the moon's fanciful promise
of an amazing future.

But in that time before the dawn
there are sobs in the ether of time
that hang like clouds never gone
over the now heaven sent.

And the heaven sent merely the means
of making the future a tearful event
or it could be simply a game,
live/cry/die, live/cry/die,
sorry, my friend, you're "it"!

Helen / 5 December 2010

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2010-12-05 08:03 AM

Helen, this touched me in many ways...

I've become too thoughtful of late and sometimes the mortality of it all is too evident.

M

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

2 posted 2010-12-05 10:29 AM

I have come to that conclusion a few years back. Someone recently, after reading a poem of mine, said it was too sad for the Christmas season. What can I do? My muse is a sad muse for the most part.

Love this poem.

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

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2010-12-05 10:42 AM

Helen-what a wonderful write that goes right to the heart of life. I enjoyed this piece very much. LGR

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2010-12-05 03:09 PM

Thanks, Maureen. Life sometimes just seems to have been a waste of time but I suppose there must be a reason for it - I hope there is at any rate.

Hi Jerry - Hmm? I think it was me who said your poem was sad for the Christmas season but then again we both know how sadness like all things comes and then goes.

Lori - Thank you for reading and for your kind comment.

Helen

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