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Open Poetry #33

Where Forever Is Bright

Ivy Rose
Senior Member

since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

0 posted 2004-08-11 09:14 PM

Everything seems to be gray,
hazy in the waning light
of a dwindling Summer sky.
The stars barely outlined
dangle precariously,
covered-over by a milky film.

I wonder where they all are?
My Nana, my Aunt Anita,
my mother's mother
who died of tuberculosis
when my mother was just seven.

Do they continue to shine brighter
and brighter in that other place?
Where my eyes are covered over
by the opaque veil that separates
the dead from the realm of the living.

How dim the stars can seem at times;
yet, at dusk, they become visible
as the clouded-lens is torn away
and the stars have had layers of time
peeled away to reveal their iridescence.
These are the stars that glimmer and shine
with a growing intensity as the night skies
deepen and pool into expansive black sheets.

I understand then...where all those
who live beyond the veil are.
They are the stars who grow
so much brighter with each passing day
of the Infinite, and look down upon us
with an efflorescent glow. Just as
the first, full burst of stars
becomes visible on the last trace
of a Summer sky or in the evening
of the final setting of the Sun.

At Dawn, they slowly fade and become
part of the opaque light of day.
They are behind the veil, once again.
Still bright and ever gleaming,
even when I can no longer see
their familiar shapes and forms
nor the radiance that the stars keep
in the daylight of their bright Forever.

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

1 posted 2004-08-12 12:28 PM

i am sure they surround you wherever you are. this brought a tear to my eye. ive lost many loved ones too. nice writing, glad i stopped by.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2004-08-12 12:58 PM

Lovely ponderings here, Ivy Rose.

...jo

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

3 posted 2004-08-12 06:07 AM

Ivy Rose, I have missed you and your poetic offerings! ~ and this eloquent, reflective and touching poem is a fine example of just why I have been missing you!

You are surrounded by love from both worlds...

Loving hugs,

Linda

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