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Open Poetry #39

The playground of love

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-09-27 05:52 AM

It’s a push to the playground of love
and the round-about isn’t much fun
with the slide on the side in dare
of first the effort and then the thrill.

There’s a see-saw of indecision
that crashes to ground a good intention
and a place to build a relationship
vulnerable to insensitivity.

Swing on emotion and it’s still a-moving
long after it’s over and done,
but climb, do climb, the jungle of love
just to come down to earth
and the gates and perimeter fences
erected as protection.

Oh, yes, the playground of love;
a fantasy land where superman flies
up, up, and away
and a woman is left to report
on the best days of her life ~
and this can be vice-versa too
in this era of equality.

There’s more in the bordering trees
that connect an event to history
and attract love’s smoldering heat
into the shade of memory.

And always a path and a hand
along the very long walk to arrive
is the same to hasten departure
because whatever opens must close.

Such is the playground of love
where dreams fill the air of hope
until the inevitable rust and erosion
of the equipment of soul!

Helen / 27 September 2006

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2006-09-27 10:56 AM

Helen, this brought some memories to me

thank you

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2006-09-28 12:36 PM

I have fallen off a swing or two in the "playground of love". Such joy ~ and such despair ~ can be experienced there.

"Such is the playground of love
where dreams fill the air of hope
until the inevitable rust and erosion
of the equipment of soul!"

~ May your playground of love be filled only with the "air of hope".

If your love starts to rust, perhaps it would be time to go to another playground.

Warm hug o' love,
Linda

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