A once beautiful china doll

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Open Poetry #33

A once beautiful china doll

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-10-06 11:36 AM

There once was a beautiful china doll
cool to the touch, reserved,
placed on a shelf to gather dust layers
and bemoan discontent to the walls.

Hastily cleaned one day by love
she casually slips from it all
and falls to the floor of insanity
rolling, rolling, towards the door.

Out the door she stumbles and trips
unmindful of wind through her hair
till called up short by forces unknown
she lands prone in the gutter of soul.

Down comes the rain, it doesn’t wash out
crazy patterns of hallucination
or settle the shadows in corners to pout
and wish for her safe return.

She’ll never get back the same as before
for destiny, fate, or just bad luck,
has peeled off her glittering parts
and she now is a poor imitation
of a once beautiful china doll.

She lies to this day in the gutter of soul
not yet immune to cold shoulders
but time will decree space in the sea
for remnants of civilization.

Mementos, treasures, china doll, me,
and the sea as protector of memories
simply grows with the force of it all!

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2004-10-06 02:10 PM

Helen~
I felt layers of heartache in this piece~
*Huglets* to you~
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2004-10-06 02:11 PM

Helen, you've woven much wisdom of heart within this china doll story.
A keeper for me, to ponder again.

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

3 posted 2004-10-06 02:11 PM

a beauty to keep and ponder over Helen. Wonderful writing.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2004-10-07 01:05 AM

Nice writing...James

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2004-10-07 02:42 AM

Thank you all so much for the read and your nice comments. Perhaps the secret of life is to feel ALL things and heartache must, I suppose, fit in there somewhere.

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