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Open Poetry #48

If Anyone Should Follow

XOx Uriah xOX
Senior Member

since 2006-02-11

Posts 1403
Virginia

0 posted 2013-04-16 07:51 PM

If Anyone Should Follow
********************

If anyone should follow
my path from there to here...
please pause amid the marshes
and gather up my tears.

Pour them out
upon the grass
at the grave where Father lies.

'Though he did not know,
may it grow to show...
sometimes men do cry

If anyone should follow...
please, kindly look around
for my broken halo,
down in some unholy ground.

Brush it off
and bury it
in the grave where Mother lies

I never wore it anyway
except in Mama's eyes

If anyone should follow
upon the waters I have trod...

look closely at reflections,
when searching for your god.

He rests lightly on the surface.
Don't stir the depths,
but drink your fill.

The source of all the ripples,
is learned by being still.

If anyone should follow...
with companion or alone...

you may freely breathe my breath
and walk upon my bones

***

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

1 posted 2013-04-16 08:08 PM

My favorite...

quote:
I never wore it anyway
except in Mama's eyes...

Ha! What a sentimental tribute and self-examination. Enjoyed!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2013-04-17 04:18 AM

Uriah, this exquisite outpouring has me in floods of tears, for many reasons I understand, and many I don't, or at least not right now.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2013-04-20 04:13 PM

Best ever, Larry. Brought tears to my eyes also.
Ida

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2013-04-20 04:14 PM

A keeper!

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

5 posted 2013-04-22 01:41 AM

Larry I have read this one a few times and have to say it is one of the best I have read in a while. Thank you, jo

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2013-04-22 08:57 PM

fine writing...James

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

7 posted 2013-04-24 02:06 PM

a fine folksong and poem of honest introspection

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