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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-09-15 04:22 AM

There are no daisies now to pick
or petals “love me, love me not”
to hold expectant breath inside
because the flowers; they all died
that time you said goodbye
and birds, butterflies, and bees,
once a-flutter in my feel
left with nowhere else to go
except into memory.

And this hardship not uncommon
in the add of months to years
simply called ‘growing up’
into love’s backward slide
from grandiose technicolour
into black and white.

So merges then love’s everything
into the shadow lands
but I’m a child, as you are,
of the universe
and universal light and love
from the sky of my desire
keeps me picking daisies
in a field of only weeds.

Helen / 15 September 2005

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2005-09-15 09:51 AM

Oh, Helen, this is such a touching write.
But, the daisy (which happens to be my favourite) is a strong little flower and it won't give up on love....nor should you.
Well done. hugs, Chris

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2005-09-15 10:12 AM

Thank you, Chris. I'll never give up on love because I know if not this lifetime then the next. It's just the waiting that's hard.

Obsidian Snow
Member

since 2005-08-24

Posts 88

3 posted 2005-09-15 11:05 AM

I still have a mental picture of what the daisies look like so that when I do come across them again I will know what they are..

Well done!

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

4 posted 2005-09-15 12:11 PM

This poem touches the heart of me...I believe that once we give our love it stays given even though there may be great pain from the giving of it...If I were to go back in time I would give my love again just as I have for I believe that in the giving I was shaped into the person I am today...This poem is absolutely wonderful...thank you, so much, for sharing it with us...**big hugs**

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2005-09-16 02:30 AM

Helen....even weeds can sometimes be beautiful, yes? Liked this one very much.

.....jo

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2005-09-16 05:49 AM

Thank you all for the read. Startime - you are so right and Jo - yes, weeds can be beautiful if we hadn't first seen the flowers.

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