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Open Poetry #23

Spirit of a Grandfather

Sandpiper
Senior Member

since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

0 posted 2002-12-13 05:52 AM

I feel closer to you
on these nights when
wind and rain
touch this glass face,
and your Cherokee blood
drums a spirit song
through my heart

I wonder sometimes,
if you know
my pen is seeded
in the fields of your words,
nourished by your sun
and the food of your soul--
I write you
over and over again,
trying
to keep you close;
hearing you, hearing you,
I never stop listening

and I still have
so many questions
needing answers
but the one, oh the one,
waits an answer;

you once told me
I would dance
on the moonstone--
am I, Grandfather,
meant to feel the music
of that silver place
forever alone
with no earth
beneath me?

where is the word-wind
of your spirit sky?

embrace me

~tsi-ga-ta-ha tsi-lv-quo-di~

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul."
Pablo Neruda

RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

1 posted 2002-12-13 07:37 AM

Hanging on...to hope, to culture....the glass face, the planted pen.....when you dance that dance the earth won't matter. Enjoyed

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

2 posted 2002-12-13 09:05 AM

This is beautiful, and reminds me of my own Grandfather. Thank you for sharing these thoughts with us here...~~S~~

Pen how you truly feel...
it is a safety-valve for the soul!

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2002-12-13 09:14 AM

Sandpiper, this is so lovely, it has a tender haunting feel to it. To explain that phrase is difficult for me, I don't understand it, but it seems to depict the sensation I receive when I read this.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2002-12-13 09:18 AM

you grandfather indeed sounds as if he was a wise one... I am sure you will not stand alone... or dance forever in solitude..

enjoyed this...

WhiteRose
Member Elite

since 2002-07-23

Posts 3208
somebody's dungeon

5 posted 2002-12-13 09:21 AM

This is an incredible write. Enjoyed.

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