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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2013-07-06 05:36 AM

She’s a gypsy lady, yes, she is
but there’ll be no movement today
because the tree of wisdom has lost its leaves
and stands bare in the midst of the plains.

It’s only a tree, yes, it is
but that gypsy lady ponders the worth
of fulsome and free in the summer
with no sign of the winter to come.

It’s winter now, yes, it is
and she tries to move her ancient brain
into the planning stage for summer
but blocked by the dream she’s always dreamt
she remains like one comatose.

A comatose gypsy beneath a bare tree
suffers the glare of reality
but she knows, has always known,
the cycles of life attest to no growth
when everything gained falls away.

And yet she will wake and move again, yes,
always seeking and hoping to find
a “something” that’s everlasting
amidst the plains of life.

Helen / 6 July 2013

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-07-06 07:18 AM

For what it's worth there are many just like the gypsy lady. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and consul the tree of wisdom.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2013-07-06 05:39 PM

We don keep moving for some reason, Helen. There are days when I wonder why.
Ida

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2013-07-06 07:30 PM

I like this Helen. It is thought provoking.

Lori

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2013-07-07 02:14 AM

Thanks everyone and, Ida, yes, I also wonder why while at the same time knowing that there'll never be an answer to all the why's that float around in my head.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2013-07-08 11:51 AM

That "something", dear Helen, is your soul. In the non movement you find more truth than in all the hurrying around. Just transform "comatose" into "connection to the pool of love" ... Surrender to love and you will hear your soul's whispers.

Well written as always, though a tiny bit cynical.

Hugs.
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2013-07-08 02:30 PM

Thanks Margherita. Perhaps I do hear my soul's whispers - yeah, telling me to move but then again maybe not. Difficult to know sometimes.

Hugs to you too dear lady.
Helen

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