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Soul

Searching

Spirit 

 

 AMÁ

 

 ZOE

 

 WHERE MEMORIES MEET

 

TODAY SHE SUFFERED

 

 HIGH ON A HILL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMÁ

 

What happens when we listen?

Out of the Cloud of Creation

            Comes a Waterfall.

 

And when we listen again?  

It begins to glow.

 

A downpour.

No spillage.

No backwash.

 

Sprinkling drops

Refreshing leaves.

 

One meaning.

What happens next?

 

A Nightingale sings.

And?  We listen again…

 

 


 

ZOE

 

I love the beginning of April when primroses

Are out, and warm breezes play in gardens.

 

I love the music of streams

Tracing, winding, wandering through green meadows:

 

There, women’s thoughts roam among old memories

And settle on the high alter of summer.

 

I saw her again to day:

“I know you,” she said.

 

And I know you, my heart whispered.

How could I forget her?

 

That golden hair, that creamy skin, that lovely smile,

Her words, soft, feathery, lit up my entire being,

 

My heart, sounding gentle lamentations

Wished she would never vanish.

 


WHERE MEMORIES MEET

 

Have you been to a place

Where memories meet

Like kissing trees

Crossing country lanes?

 

Have you been to the ocean,

Walked the beach

And watched the waves

Cover footprints?

 

Have seen a mother

And daughter

Step onto a pier

Holding hands

 

And listened

As the daughter said?

“Yes mum, you’re right,

The best things in life are free.”

 


Today She Suffered

I watched her.

Walking.

Stopping. 

 

Walking, looking over her shoulder,

Twisting her face into all kinds of shapes. 

 

Then she stopped at traffic lights

And looked into cars,

 

Spoke to some drivers

And spat at others. 

 

I tried to find her:

What happened to the child

 

That hides and broods

In the shadows?

 

“No one cares,”

She said.

 

II

 

Over hills skylarks sing of summer,

                        And the moon wanes in the early sky.

 

All yellow, the wind blows the pollen.

                        Jack the dog goes trotting by.

 

                        There in the distance she wanders:

                        I tried to tell her of her treasures

 

But my words like pebbles

                        Were swallowed by the tide.

 

                        Then I turned, and saw her watching

                        Like a shadow in the night… 

 


 

HIGH ON A HILL

 

High on a hill is the grave.

 

The sounds

You hear are sighs

And the wind carrying salty voices

Down the slope through desperate forces

Leaving the one with no choices

And their heart’s blood is safe

In the blame of others…

 

Softly

Bells toll

As car doors slam

And how quickly

People are back to normal…