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THE GRIP
Pieces of my childhood
Bits of my youth
Lined at my back.
Bits and pieces of my back
Like oysters on the sea shores of time.
I still feel the calling of the parts:
To pick up to string together,
What should not go just like that
Precious pieces of my heart
Scattered all over my memory.
Yet I feel something stronger ahead
Pulling at my mind
Like beckoning spirits
A vast pool of energy
Holding my eyes
The spotless ocean of light ahead
Has stiffened my neck.
I have not forgotten at all
The past and today.
How can I forget ever?
Those fears and excitement
Tugging at the heart when
our hungry minds
Were exploring the world at large
Searching out many million mysteries.
Yet I cannot go back at all
My neck just can’t crane backward again
It has grown stiff
With the longing for what lies ahead.
Bits of my youth
Lined at my back.
Bits and pieces of my back
Like oysters on the sea shores of time.
I still feel the calling of the parts:
To pick up to string together,
What should not go just like that
Precious pieces of my heart
Scattered all over my memory.
Yet I feel something stronger ahead
Pulling at my mind
Like beckoning spirits
A vast pool of energy
Holding my eyes
The spotless ocean of light ahead
Has stiffened my neck.
I have not forgotten at all
The past and today.
How can I forget ever?
Those fears and excitement
Tugging at the heart when
our hungry minds
Were exploring the world at large
Searching out many million mysteries.
Yet I cannot go back at all
My neck just can’t crane backward again
It has grown stiff
With the longing for what lies ahead.
Published 4th Nov 2010
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4th Nov 2010 3:54pm
Hey Divine~this poem is well...divine! :)
I like the linking of the past (not forgotten), linking to the unknown (and possibly bright) future. We are all seekers on the path!
It immediately brought Rilke's "A Walk" to mind:
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
I like the linking of the past (not forgotten), linking to the unknown (and possibly bright) future. We are all seekers on the path!
It immediately brought Rilke's "A Walk" to mind:
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
5th Nov 2010 7:57am
Oh thank you Lauren, I am quite elated. I myself have sometimes bumped into poems that resemble mine.
It confirms the fact that the universe is a network of thoughts.
3rd Dec 2010 8:09am
3rd Dec 2010 2:32pm
