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Open Poetry #36

What the spirit knows

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-07-04 03:40 AM

Like water from a well
and I am powerless
when compassion rises up
from the depths of love …
and sometimes when I cry
you are still smiling
in the turn, turn, turn around,
from what the spirit knows.

And the effort of it all
leaves a body humbled more
for the outreach of soul
holds dominion over all
and forces unconcernedly
unasked for overflows
of what the spirit knows.

Not thirsty yet I drink
but I don’t pull the rope
or lift the bucket happily
from that never empty well
because, you see, I don’t know
what the spirit knows!

Helen / 4 July 2005

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2005-07-04 06:43 AM

hmmm...I like that ending
nicely done

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2005-07-06 03:57 AM

Enjoyed...James

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2005-07-06 05:50 AM

Thanks Dixie and James! I guess it's most times to our advantage not to know.

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