Ponderable and poem for Sunday, December 20, 2009
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Alan Harris
Dec 20, 2009, 1:02:44 AM12/20/09
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Crying makes an inner rainbow.
Bittersweet
You hurt and struggle.
You are ripped apart
like a coupon out of a newspaper.
How can you or I mend you?
When the spirit bleeds,
words are worthless,
sympathy simpleminded,
blessings empty.
I hurt too.
My soul slogs along under
fearsome boredom
and capricious desires.
I am a blip in a flippant universe
wishing for an exciting peace,
a pleasant insecurity,
but I waste away in dull comfort.
Cry your tears into this saucer
as I cry mine there too.
Let us mix them now together
and drink a quaint communion.
We may be maudlin,
stupid and sentimental,
but love tasted in tears
is heady wine against sorrow.
You are ripped apart
like a coupon out of a newspaper.
How can you or I mend you?
When the spirit bleeds,
words are worthless,
sympathy simpleminded,
blessings empty.
I hurt too.
My soul slogs along under
fearsome boredom
and capricious desires.
I am a blip in a flippant universe
wishing for an exciting peace,
a pleasant insecurity,
but I waste away in dull comfort.
Cry your tears into this saucer
as I cry mine there too.
Let us mix them now together
and drink a quaint communion.
We may be maudlin,
stupid and sentimental,
but love tasted in tears
is heady wine against sorrow.
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Alan Harris
You're invited to view two YouTube videos by Ine Braat based on my poems: "Mother's Secret," "Two Windows," and "Seeking until Found."
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