Flip, flop, slip and slide

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Open Poetry #37

Flip, flop, slip and slide

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-04-15 01:48 PM

Flip, flop, slip and slide; the earth is going round
and not everyone’s a conscious bride dizzy with delight
yet in between the fall/get-up of the world’s inhabitants
there sometimes can appear a small pinprick of light.

And light has many uses; some highlight everything,
some brighten up a corner, and some lead a searching mind
into new and original perceptions and beliefs
unproved and unfounded in the spin of daily life.

But take me to the stage of illuminated grace
and place into my hands the binoculars of life
so I may, at my behest, choose a close and personal view
of the flip, flop, slip and slide, of that dizzy bride.

She doesn’t flip but somersaults like an acrobat,
doesn’t flop but settles, her slip a dancer’s glide,
and her slide a true and honest simple slithering
into the spotlight of authentic compromise.

Would that I could be a conscious bride just for me
and flip, flop, slip and slide, without a mark inside
yet perchance I am dizzy for knowing love is real
after the fall/get-up of an enlightened mind!

Helen / 15 April 2006

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2006-04-15 03:58 PM

Certainly much truth here...thank you
Helen....Now, if I can find those binoculars.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2006-04-15 05:56 PM

excellent piece! I enjoyed this!

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

3 posted 2006-04-15 06:07 PM

Much insight in this my friend!

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

4 posted 2006-04-16 08:51 AM

and her slide a true and honest simple slithering
into the spotlight of authentic compromise.

much to think about here...the above my favorite lines

M

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2006-04-16 12:10 PM

Thanks Magnus, Dixie, icebox and Maureen for reading and for commenting. My brain seems a bit strange even to me these days - must be because it's April!

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