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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2014-04-18 10:39 PM

The Words

The words, they don't come easy now.
My thinking process won't allow
For joy, a place in a domain
Defined by years of grief and pain.

But it's alive, there with the peace
I found in a moment's release.
I just don't have the metaphors
To gauge how high an eagle soars...

Or measure hope in new found wings.
The voice silent, the spirit sings
Even so, as I dare to trust
Tomorrow it won't turn to dust.

Easy to scribe heart ripped from chest,
Not so simple to convey rest;
Just know I walk contentedly
Through this silent serenity.

I've never known something so pure.
The words will come in time I'm sure.
Till then, I'll just watch the sun rise—
Smile for the scales pulled from these eyes.

Michael Anderson

4/08/2014

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-04-18 10:48 PM

Personally these two lines, the finale as it were, capsuled the whole poem.

quote:
Till then, I'll just watch the sun rise—

Smiling for the scales pulled from these eyes.
Still . . . the complete poem is a work of art even though you tend to hold some disdain for it. Not I. Although it isn't Michel's dark, it is just enough of it to make the poem so wonderfully . . . Michael.

~*~ Love is friendship set on fire. ~*~

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2014-04-20 03:29 AM

I like this new view, Michael.
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ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

3 posted 2014-04-20 04:18 AM

Your words raise an AMEN from deep within my soul!
Well done Michael,
E

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2014-04-20 01:30 PM

In this poem you use the dark to contrast the light and make the lightness stand out perfectly! This is so you in a different light and it is very flattering Michael!

Lori

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2014-04-23 12:29 PM

Nice...James

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