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Open Poetry #36

The ship of miracles

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-11-22 09:20 AM

I will take you one day
to the ship of miracles;
tread gently lest you fall
into history’s open arms
that never promise more.

In these days of quiet disdain
the ship cannot set sail
but laps against the pier
forward-back, forward-back,
to the rise and dip
of apathetic energy
emanating from a brain.

Conditioned to the wait
it yet bemoans its fate
because the chip and peal of belief
has cracked the upper deck
and allowed the sun of no love
to burn the inner hold.

Back and forth, back and forth;
who boards a groaning ship
seemingly unworthy
of an attention span?

Not me and yet perhaps
one foot to test my weight
on every step up higher, high,
to where the captain stands
invisibly so powerful
as to pull me up …
but creak, groan, splinter,
crash and splash;
what matters is the feel
of that miracle called “me”
dropped into the sea of life
to swim because I can!

Helen / 22 November 2005

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-11-22 01:37 PM

Helen

"to swim because I can!"

You can...that's it exactly!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2005-11-22 02:23 PM

"what matters is the feel
of that miracle called “me”
dropped into the sea of life
to swim because I can!"

A wonderful uplifting write Helen.
Very much enjoyed the read.
Hugs~Nancy

~ Trace my body with your words..
in doing so, you touch my heart ~

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