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Open Poetry #31

Like the sea and the sky

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-03-21 02:36 AM

Between you and me I’ve got something to say
from a script prepared on an invisible scroll
bound with ribbons blue, white, and red, gold,
like the sea and the sky when they say goodbye.

But what if I stumble and skip a few lines
or the chapter that found you and I side by side
and proceeded to read from the then to the now
in a voice loud and harsh with echoes of pride?

Why nothing, my friend, for it’s simply “un-cool”
to bask in the glory of love’s give and take
in our haste to partake of a transient sex life
and build for ourselves a vast pleasure park.

So I’ll skip out the part that encompasses heart
and speak of the this, that, this, that, that, that,
from words edge to edge on reality’s board
hung on a wall in the sight of you all.

At the end of a day the sun says goodbye,
the far away sea simply rolls with the tide,
both invisible, yes, till captured, held, penned,
in the folds of another’s intangible scroll!

Helen

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

1 posted 2004-03-21 03:59 AM

I like it Heather

It is very different

Dave

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2004-03-21 05:21 AM

And Heather is different from Helen but still I thank you, Dave.

Helen

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

3 posted 2004-03-21 06:49 PM

Original... very enjoyable to read!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-03-21 07:02 PM

Well done Helen...very much enjoyed the read!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding wound
...or a smiling mouth.

~ Kahlil Gibran

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

5 posted 2004-03-21 07:05 PM

So I’ll skip out the part that encompasses heart
and speak of the this, that, this, that, that, that,
from words edge to edge on reality’s board

Such a powerful poem,
and yet so soft around the edges.

Reminds me of that song,
"How deep is your love",
not sure exactly why.

Wonderful writing, as always~
Hugs Helen~

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