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JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

0 posted 2012-08-18 07:16 PM

Swing Low

If an angel
came to me today
and offered to
carry my pain away
I'd give a bucketfull
and ask for a bucket
full of happiness
in exchange.

JamesLee
17August
2012

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-08-18 07:35 PM

That would be good of you, James. I'll take a bucketful myself, although I'm pretty darn happy, maybe I'd just need a quarter of a bucket.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

2 posted 2012-08-18 07:55 PM

Good choice...love it...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2012-08-19 02:11 AM

I reckon angels don't offer. One has to ask and then I reckon the only bartering tool is love. And now don't ask me the reason why we sometimes don't receive because I can't answer that one.

Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2012-08-19 06:48 AM

That's a beautiful thought, dear James. Just mentally put that bucket of pain at the feet of your Guardian Angel and you will instantly feel the lightness and you will be happy for the gift.

Love and joy.

Margherita

Marsha

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-10

Posts 7423
Maidstone Kent England

5 posted 2012-08-20 08:59 AM

James beautiful writing, is this good? You know it is, love the flow within the lines of this, absolutely excellent.

Love and warm stuff
as always
Mushy
x x x x x x x

Tomorrow is another day I don't know what it holds
but I can face the future with courage brave and bold

Footprints In My Heart
Kethry

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2012-08-21 04:17 AM

James, I love the title, reminiscent of that beautiful song, 'Swing low, sweet chariot'. I love your poem too and am sad that you have so much pain. However, I have learned in my 66½ years that pain is almost always (and perhaps always) the price we pay for joy - and not speaking generally, but that the very person/thing/situation that is causing so much pain is because of the joy that that person/thing/situation did bring/could have/would have brought. Imagine if you were so hard-hearted that you couldn't feel the pain. That would be infinitely sadder. One can eventually rise above/learn to rise above pain - or at least reach a level where it isn't so unbearable - or one can learn to live with it - but to change from being without joy or pain is infinitely more difficult, if at all posssible. I miss my previous animals especially the last 3 I had very intensely every day and they have been gone from Earth now for 10, 2½ and 2 years respectively. I hold on to the pain willingly, because I couldn't bear to be without the bond that I feel with them continually. Sorry, I am rambling. My point is that if you look at that pain again, perhaps there is a blessing in it somewhere - I know of at least one - the poem it birthed.

Owl

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

7 posted 2012-08-21 10:40 AM

Excellent write, James.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

8 posted 2012-08-21 11:56 AM

Nice, my friend.

j.

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