Value-pack bags (A Friday night ramble)

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Open Poetry #36

Value-pack bags (A Friday night ramble)

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-10-28 06:23 PM

Emotional bodies in value-pack bags
lie overcrowded in cities and towns
and suffer the hurt of hardship and want
in the wish and need to survive.

The air of belief brings no relief
when fruit is plucked from the roots
but everyone has to lose ground
when learning the value of earth.

A push and a squeeze; move over please,
a jab and a stab and it’s not okay
to be like a seed in a pod of people
crammed into value-pack bags.

“Great blessings are still to come”
but that’s only imaginative thought
and many of those infiltrate soul
in spite of the neighbourhood watch.

“You can’t have one, you can’t have one,
you can’t have one without the other”
and that is the gospel and code of life
when confined in a value-pack bag … da-dah!

So splits the bag when desirous of more
one of the crowd grows internally
and stretches beyond the confines of known
into the vastness of limitless space ...
with grace because all people have grace
when released from value-pack bags … da-dah!

Of course, quite naturally and indubitably
bags finally lie on the sidewalks of life
and flutter like little leaves in a breeze
far from that one tree of life.

Listen!  The main decider of fate
cries and demands a time of recall
but can it be said that stop and refresh,
replenish and then forget
produces a tailor made snap, crackle, pop,
from the finest of spiritual sparks
just to be jammed into value-pack bags?

So now we have a bag on the streets,
some of the contents floating in space
and the rest, remainder, and residue
pushing and shoving, stabbing and jabbing,
and forgetting to learn the value of earth
while losing ground to the dirt
kicked into the face of unvalued grace.

Whatever happened to magic?

Helen / 28 October 2005

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-10-28 06:38 PM

Helen

You write magic! I really enjoyed the pieces of humor you put into this most serious ramble da dah!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2005-10-28 06:44 PM

Thanks, Martie. I guess we have to "mix and match" because - oh, well, what can I say except - because we can't have one without the other.

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