Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Mailing Letters to the Moon - Dec. 06, 2011

Mailing Letters to the Moon

Before you can feel the soft touch of poetry
and it can play a song for you,
look for the positive aspect in moonlit shadows.
Stop and wonder
how a heart breaks then makes friends
who give of themselves
until they bleed out on the cold floors
of the world.

Do you find that time lays heavy on you
within dreams
where snow melts in pictures
of piercing eyes
that mail letters to the moon.
Or are you afraid to look out the window
and stop pretending
you are falling in love with being all alone
with just your heart and a slingshot?

What litters the path where your feet move?
calling out to the sky
that there is no magic wish
staring at you
waiting for you to finish.
Does your breath catch in conversations
held with snowflakes
that spin and bow then fade away
leaving you to wonder
where you go
from here.

Has it come to the point
where you walk in the places
where white lies run through the stream of life?
Does innocence struggle with colors
that make our eyes believe nothing is true
when something new becomes old
inside of winds that creep
and freeze like icicles.

Before you can feel the soft touch of poetry
and it can play a song for you,
you must have walked this path
I have described.
Do not stand up and leave with your
thoughts racing,
climbing higher and higher,
lest you become one of those hearts
that bleed.

© 2011 Neva Flores - Changefulstorm

7 comments:

  1. I think I will sit for awhile and contemplate the poetry of this road you describe and wonder at what I have seen upon it.

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  2. I adore this Neva. Bittersweet and sad yet, holds to hope. I love how you speak of crying on the cold floors of the world and falling in love with being all alone. That really resonated with me as I have been on that floor. Nice penning, poignant. Succinct.

    Kellie
    @BackyardPonders

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  3. Lovely piece! I do believe I have walked this path. Thanks for sharing this amazing write.

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  4. "Before you can feel the soft touch of poetry
    and it can play a song for you,"
    very captivating poem!

    Erick Flores

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  5. Hello.
    WoW! The beauty & imagery of your words. Many have walked this path you describe.
    Heartfelt & bittersweet.
    Nicely penned.
    Thanks for sharing.

    For ref:
    Eleven Roses And You

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  6. this was the most striking to me ->

    white lies run through the stream of life?

    too many of them floating around!!!

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