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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-05-27 03:57 AM

Atop a hill a flame doth burn temptation's sweet allure,
and the smoke rises up, infiltrates the atmosphere,
and turns the blue and beautiful into a hazy view
uninviting to my eyes like dead and dying trees.

It’s winter now where once the rain held the flame at bay
and brought the new and delicate forward and upright
to stand like a beacon in the view of humble beings
as a sign and symbol, token, of life’s deep mystery.

But the flame; how it burns and makes a person yearn
for the discovery and feel of another’s inner world
and a mind rises up, infiltrates beyond the veil,
and brings back to earth the knowing of it all.

And the delicate and new once considered meaningful
sinks beneath the surface of a person’s conscious view
and watches from the sidelines the wanderings in smoke
and the reaching blind response of the love deprived.

It’s winter now, flames burn, and I turn from the view
strong, secure, but saddened at how goodbye can feel
when it turns my blue and beautiful into hazy memories
and closes my mind to a once most treasured dream.

And sad is passing through on its way into the past
erupting and exploding like rocks and lava, fire,
but the silence of the dead in love prepared the way
for no surprise to rock the foundation of my worth.

But too they cannot know how the expected hurts,
how the death of hope changes landscapes, sea, and me,
and sends me hibernating into the tried and failed
but constant reminder of the futility of dreams.

That’s it – I’m out of here, or there, or wherever,
to formulate new rules and contemplate new views!

Helen

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-05-27 03:59 AM

nice! sounds like you're ready for adventure!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2004-05-27 04:07 AM

Perhaps - who can know what the future holds except that it doesn't hold the past if we so decide.

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