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Open Poetry #13

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Embers_Before_God
Member

since 2001-03-06

Posts 101
USA

0 posted 2001-04-17 12:06 PM

Those lights that shine
through and around
hidden cracks
in walls we call our own—
believed we knew so well—
often seem to glow
with a fiery essence,
until we peer through,
gazing into
the guised crevasses
of the wall.

It is then we discern
the lights perceived
are not lights at all,
but merely veiled hope
caped like superman,
but lacking his strength.

Hope doesn’t stare back,
only continues to shine
on the other side,
and, sometimes,
it is so close,
so very close,
our hands feel
the warmth provided
against our aging wall.

Yet that,
belongs to another,
and attempts remain futile
to receive any we may see,
for we all draw our own hope
by tasting adversity.

It is that strength,
that instills within us,
the ability to overcome,
the power to see
what we often misconstrue,
placing hope into
plain and simple view.
TkB
Copyright © 2001
All Rights Reserved

Dance with me under the moon. Touch my pale skin. Devour me. Love me.

[This message has been edited by Embers_Before_God (edited 04-17-2001).]

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

1 posted 2001-04-17 08:33 AM

would like to hear more about this light!

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

2 posted 2001-04-17 01:34 PM

I really liked the phrase:veiled hope caped like superman, but lacking his strength.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Katherine Chandler
Member

since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
Florida, USA

3 posted 2001-04-17 09:06 PM

Beautiful poem, Embers.

I loved the line:

'It is that strength, that instills within us, the ability to overcome, the power to see.'

Very well done.

Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

Embers_Before_God
Member

since 2001-03-06

Posts 101
USA

4 posted 2001-04-17 11:40 PM

I appreciate your lind words...thanks so much...Embers

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