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Open Poetry #34

Paradise Clothes

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-11-14 01:06 AM

Paradise clothes, cool not blue,
comfortable like your embrace
older, much older than then,
a match for my mood,
a light in the dark,
and a forever spark in my heart.

They’ve been in the rain,
absorbed the pain,
felt the feeling of sad,
touched the skin over my bones,
and enabled my memory.

They’ve tumbled and turned,
done cartwheels and burnt
in the turmoil of heat,
borne the creases,
suffered the steam
and a season locked up in the dark.

Paradise clothes a treasure to me
no matter, it seems, if seams come undone
and I might be tempted to support charity
but that’s like discarding a dream.

They’re unhappy being owned by a fool,
a fool like me unsure what to do,
for first they’re locked up and then let out
just like my memories of you.

Loved in the summer, hated in winter,
ignored the rest of the time,
but they like a woman who knows
believe they’ll live for a day
when divested of ribbons and bows
they’ll clean like a breeze the fog in a brain,
and shine up love’s honesty.

Clothes of the past, paradise clothes,
so much a part of the present
until I grow old, cold inside,
and suffer another season of growth!  (sigh)

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2004-11-14 10:31 AM

Helen

I enjoyed the bit of humor and nostalgia in this. I think I have a dress just like it.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2004-11-14 01:59 PM

Thanks Martie. Yes, I think every woman has one like it.

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