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Open Poetry #36

Wings of Simple Things

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-08-30 04:16 AM

In the sky black chalk boards
like walls around the earth
whereon the words are writ
of poets, lovers, me.

They stand like a testimony
and this is who I am,
a woman in a lie
waiting for the wings
of life’s simple things
to erase the agony.

Birds and butterflies
and time denies a heart
the final and complete
anthology of soul
wherein the good and bad
have mixed harmoniously.

The slate is clean
where once the script
of lovers’ hearts entwined
but energy in fateful mix
writes new story lines,
dots the “I’s’, with love,
and crosses off the tears,
sometime before the fall …
because everything must fall
before we know it all.

Now this is who I am,
a woman tutored, capped and gowned,
in the ABC of energy
where love is not expunged
by life’s so very many
wings of simple things!

Helen / 30 August 2005

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2005-08-30 04:27 AM

what wisdom! fantastic write!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2005-08-30 04:33 AM

Thanks, Dixie, but "wisdom" is only for the wise whereas I just "theorize".

kayjay
Member Elite

since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

3 posted 2005-08-30 10:22 AM

Strongly written. Your self-portrait shows pride and strength but also vulnerablilty. Well done. Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

4 posted 2005-08-30 10:32 AM

Helen, you are a light, and this was no exception...you are wings silly, wings of generous wisdom....this was so beautiful...thank you

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2005-08-30 10:47 AM

Thank you all so much for the read. And LeeJ, wings are only meaningful if they are stretched. Mine are folded waiting ... for love!

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