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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-06-19 05:07 PM

The fallen and the dead collect on the ground
their term of office over until the time is right
to scatter to the corners behind where I can’t see
and deliver a message I’m not allowed to hear.

Secrets are in the air and leaves don’t have a care
as happily they lift at the behest of the wind
in a plot to overthrow summer’s expected glow
and make the bare and barren a permanent feature.

But plans of permanence fall short of their desire
in the circle of needs circulating like the seasons
for always it’s a need that forces change to be
and always it’s a need that creeps up from behind.

Behind where I can’t see someone pushes from the rear
but trapped I stand immobile waiting for the glow
to stir the fire of passion to heights not ever known
and clear away the rubble of my despondency.

The fallen and the dead collect on the ground,
I know how they feel; I’m a comrade I believe
together and entwined until death do us part
to scatter, merely scatter, with secrets into air.

The message we deliver you’re not allowed to hear
which defeats the object of the comradeship of leaves
to fall and lie as dead, to blow away at will,
and return again upon the trees beautiful and strong.

But I heard how they whisper, giggle, snicker, laugh,
in the autumn and winter of dead and fallen minds
on the ground entwined with humanoid features
seeking so for permanence in a changing world.

And I heard the secret but I lost it somewhere,
somewhere behind a corner where I cannot see!

Helen – and this fits in so well with a peculiar phrase
in my country – “yes, well, no, fine” – I think it
just means … what it says!

wordwizard
Member

since 2003-09-08

Posts 483
on the way to next world

1 posted 2004-06-19 07:13 PM

Is this a mesage to Helen all along? an epitaph o her? I am unclear about how to interpret the last stanza together with the rest. The imagery here is quite nice though..

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2004-06-20 02:02 AM

No - was just signing my name and explaining that I'm perhaps writing rubbish. It ends with "hearing" the secret but can't "see" it - and that seems like rubbish to me. Thanks for the read.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2004-06-23 02:34 AM

Rubbish -- maybe, maybe not -- I tend to think you did hear something. Enjoyed the read very much, Honeybunch.

.....jo

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2004-06-23 05:20 AM

Thanks jo! Yes, maybe I did hear but no one would believe me anyway so it's there behind the corner. I developed one day a liking for corners - they open up so much when you've turned them.

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