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A dip and glide
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A dip and glide |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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The book is open today at insight as the birds claim the glory of sky and seem to be forcing a look out there as a turn-away from the knowing. Yet the knowing follows the need to see how they dip and glide gloriously free in the vastness of no limitations or rules as to how they must be. Slowly it dawns like day after night that I too must soar like the birds un-weighted by the burden of sight that penetrates all falsities. And when it is known that a dip and glide is a personal saving grace can I say I’m a bird gifted by verse in claim of the glorious sky? No, cannot be; we’re all land bound manipulated sometimes unknowingly by falsity dressed up as truth as a means of clipping our wings! Helen / 17 June 2013 |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Unfortunately you speak the truth here, Helen. We try to soar, but somehow we always seem to have our wings clipped. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
very insightful 'write' ... an especially fine line: "birds claim the glory of sky" |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thanks Jerry and Bruce. Birds are very clever - they fly away from humans. |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Oh Helen...this is such a great poem and so much food for thought.....to fly so high, to be free as a bird... It is you closing line that hits a nerve and sums up the reality of it all. Excellent writing, good poetess. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you, dear Bluesy gal! What a strange species we humans are when caught in a web of lies. Who and what is the spider? |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
It's a very beautiful poem! "we’re all land bound manipulated sometimes unknowingly by falsity dressed up as truth" I believe that our hearts can see what is right and what is wrong. Thank you for sharing it ) |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I have to say, this might be your best ever, Helen. Love it. Ida |
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