Illusive love (repost just because ...)

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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2013-04-03 05:41 AM

Free and weightless floating there
lost thoughts in me like breathing air
dispatch desire and need to sky
and draw me up like smoke from fire.

Crushing blows and then dismay
turn nights to days in life's foray
but love, illusive love, lays down
its heart and soul into the ground.

It should fight and grow in might
and honour higher up delight
for like to like, the rule up there,
in strength can climb each living stair.

But weak and listless, disengaged,
it turns deaf ears and sleeps encaged
behind the bars known long ago
when earth became its fragile home.

Projected like a moving play
I watch enthralled its wish to stay
and sing in tune with my desire
for hands to lift the veil of time.

From there in air to here it calls
and flows through me its need of more.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-04-03 08:50 AM

Quite a journey within the parameters of a listless heart and the pull of broken heart with no escape clauses. Nicely done, Helen.

~*~ I tried to catch some fog. I mist. ~*~

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

2 posted 2013-04-04 12:37 PM

quote:
but love, illusive love, lays down
its heart and soul into the ground.

How caring, how beautiful, and most enduring. Enjoyed!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2013-04-04 04:03 PM

Thank you Jerry and Bob. It's an old write but it touched (yeah - where it hurts) when I read it again.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2013-04-20 05:03 PM

Worth reposting, Helen.
Ida

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

5 posted 2013-04-20 08:33 PM

funny how an illusion draws upon us to try to pull it towards us, the further away it become
well done poem

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2013-04-21 10:23 AM

Thank you Ida and ER. Old writes bring back many memories and though some are good and some are bad they are after all only memories which will some day pass away and be as if they were not. Makes one wonder at the sense of it all.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

7 posted 2013-04-21 02:17 PM

Projected like a moving play
I watch enthralled its wish to stay
and sing in tune with my desire
for hands to lift the veil of time.
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I know this feeling so well! I am drawn to your sensitivity and the truth in your poetry. Sometimes it's very sad to me, but your honest expression is what draws me in.

Just Beautiful, you~

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

8 posted 2013-04-21 11:12 PM

The emotion that pours through this piece is gripping, in perfect contrast to such a graceful flow. I really loved this one.

Michael

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

9 posted 2013-04-22 02:02 AM

Thank you, Bluesy. I always appreciate your so kind comments. I often debate the merits of being honest and having been honest but perhaps sadly it's just the way I am.

Thanks, Michael. There was a lot of emotion, unusual emotion, but I guess it's now buried somewhere for the rest of time perhaps or at the very least for the rest of my time.

Helen

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