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Open Poetry #14

The Stone That Reads Father.

Voiceless
Senior Member

since 2001-02-19

Posts 686
Under the stars upon the wind

0 posted 2001-06-16 10:58 PM

I cried last father just to let you know.
I thought of the grass and how it always grows.
The ball in the air floated down in my dream
But eventually it landed no matter how it seemed.
The wind that swirled above because I was niave
now brings tears to my eyes as my face it stings.
The memory of stories filled with flying things,
but now I know only angels can have wings.
Bubbles of laughter glisten in my brain
while in my heart remained the finished stains.
My hand as cold as the stone it rests upon
The tears as gentle as the rain
dew forms among my pain.
But as the wind kisses my check I smile
we may be parted but only for a little while.

~*Freedom Is Not Free*~ (Korean War Memorial)

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2001-06-16 11:12 PM

Oh my, the tenderness and sense of loss washing over me right now. Wow. Excellent work, Voiceless. You are right though, one day you'll see him again.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-06-17 12:36 PM

yes, in but a twinkling of an eye

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

3 posted 2001-06-17 12:48 PM

The imparted such tenderness, yet tinged with sadness and some regret. Be at peace.

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

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2001-06-17 07:12 AM

It is hard to give a complete smile around on Father's Day when we miss ours so much. Warm hugs...

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

5 posted 2001-06-17 07:14 AM

Wonderful tribute of love! A great write of faith also!

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

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