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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2018-12-15 11:08 PM

Skip-Beats(Christmas – A year ago)

Standing by the stone
carved with your name,
iPod earpiece
singing wooded flute laments,
I see your eyes shimmering
behind the closed lids
of my own,
and my heart
skip-beats,
skip-beats,
beats . . .

A year has passed?
Couldn’t have.
Just couldn’t have been
a year,
a year since
the relentless gnawing
of the beast inside
silenced the songs
you used to play.
The wooded flute laments
I hear.

Sadden souls cry,
fading out in long,
single notes,
rising suddenly,
at the end.
You knew,
and your soul cries
for life
in the voice
of the wooded flute.

You sang the glory
of living . . .
the songs of life,
you aged
it’s tone with your heart,
melded it’s soul
with your own.
And my heart skip-beats,
skip-beats,
beats. . .

Christmas,
a year ago –
coming soon.
Wooded flute
crying in my soul . . .
skip-beats,
skip-beats . . .

beats.
.
.
.
.
.
.

© wesley james beard, jr.

[This message has been edited by jwesley (12-15-2018 11:56 PM).]

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2018-12-16 05:30 AM

My, oh my, Jimmy!
How eloquently your heart does grieve (real or otherwise). I can think of no higher honer than to have your words mark my passing. ~L

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

2 posted 2018-12-16 12:02 PM

I felt as I read..this was a soul to soul
connection with you & your loved one..which is very
Powerful, & that's what moves the reader so.
Your 'beats' captured this reader.

Touching, Beautiful piece J.
Big squeezy hugs..

Sky~

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

3 posted 2018-12-16 10:19 PM

how deep is the night, what a touching poem, thanks jwesley

yann

ptime
Member
Posts 64

4 posted 2018-12-17 02:41 AM

very powerful poetry and feeling your pain. no greater expression then heart skips a beat. clear loss beautifully expressed. touching poetry here.

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