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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2014-12-16 05:02 AM

I lost something along the way
and, indeed, it took so many days
to know at last it can’t be found
down here on this unholy land.

It was a search that sapped the heart
of all its good and precious parts
to leave it flat and lifeless
with no breath to pump it up.

And yet it breathes now just enough
to keep it mostly strong and tough
to bear the loss with fortitude
and all of its embedded grace.

It can’t forget, no, not at all
the times that put it so in awe
of love’s amazing sneak and creep
into life’s normality.

The sky is blue, today it’s blue
with no clouds to bar my view
of where it sits so far above
my stretch and reach of long ago.

I know it’s there and you should to;
true love is always faithful, true!

16 December 2014

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-12-16 08:51 AM

The key word, Helen, is "true" love. It isn't something that happens just because we want it to, it happens sometimes when it is least expected. Enjoyed this poetry from you.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2014-12-16 01:21 PM

So good to read you today, dear Helen. This is very beautiful. You know it's there, you are still in awe, you have not lost anything. You reach up into the heights, but it's still your heart that inspires you.

Hugs.
Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2014-12-16 01:26 PM

It is certainly amazing ... that power of "Love" to transform our lives ...

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2014-12-17 02:00 AM

Thank you everyone for your comments. Yes, Margherita, the heart does inspire but sometimes I wish it didn't.

And, Jerry, yes, the emphasis on "true" hence the repeating of the word but true or not it has failed dismally in our world of today.

Bruce, yes, the power of love is indeed not to be thought of as insignificant. We could however think that it is crazy and would perhaps be right 99% of the time.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2014-12-17 11:44 PM

I think love does need just a touch of reality or we might become "lost."
Ida

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

6 posted 2014-12-18 06:51 AM

A gentle and pensive poem that seeps into the reader. Thoughts of negativity are crushed by the resolve of the concluding lines.
'of love's amazing sneak and creep
into life's normality.' Simply had to quote this.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2014-12-18 07:22 AM

Thank you, Ida and Redstart. I sometimes do wonder what is really real. Won't know for a time yet. I think I'm tired of "gentle". Time to change if that's at all possible.

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