sometimes we can be there physically with a friend, and yet unable to console in his/her times of grief. Yet some times, when one is not there beside the suffering human, one is able to reach -- via words and a caring heart -- the innermost depths of the recipient because of the depth of one's feelings and familiarity wrought by sincerity, concern and hope for that traveller in this transient world as some common bond binds, like the different coloured strands that tie a rainbow from one end to the other.Amidst the dawn or twilight sky, the rainbow always lifts heaven wards, and ascends, and ascends, towards eternity.
This poem is dedicated to mGf down under, the sweetest spirit of spirits;
God bless sweets and her dearly departed Dad, Amen, YL, Desi
In the silence of last night's reverie
Cometh a plea from a forget-me-not
For a shoulder to cry on
Of sadness born of a dearly loved just departed
Desi's words of comfort
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste
Remember what peace there may be in silence..."
In the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
I feel, therefore I know:
Funny,familiar, forgotten feelings
Walkin' all over my mind...
People talkin' without speaking
People hearin' without listening
And in the silences of
the roaring waves by port dickson beach
of the shores of passionate love
or afar at redhead beach
Someone sweet wiping silent tears
of a dear one just departed
heavy on the heart
with no comforting hands to hold
Lose not hope
for there's some forget-me-not
whispering
I'm that bridge o'er troubled water
I will lay me down
So that sadness shared is hope raised
heart broken is partly repaired
Tears streaming down one's face
Washes away the cold inside
And the heart beings to glow again
And Vincent's starry, starry nights
visit us humans again
Reminding us that there is still alight
that shines
In the darkness that is despair
in the human condition that fails fellow men
For as surely as each man/woman goes away
Another child or two is/are born anew
And there is yet hope
and message of l've forever
From a forget-me-not
Buried in the envelopes of time
To be unfolded at midnight
at moments such as thes
among the silences of the graveyard of the gone
the cobble-stoned road of the undead
Unspoken words of sadness
Undelivered messages of hope
Till one remembers someone
A*Forget-me-not
PS: Added on Sept 23, 2010 to raise your Vocab if you believe in life-long learning,even after your loved ones like Desi has moved on:)...Desi,solemnly today borrowing from:)
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The Magic of Words
Sep 23, 2010
This week's theme
Letter-words
This week's words
emanate
deify
extenuate
elegy
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elegy or L-E-G
PRONUNCIATION:
(EL-i-jee)
MEANING:
noun: A poem composed as a lament for the dead.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French and Latin from Greek elegos (a mournful poem or song).
USAGE:
"Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote his best-known work, an elegy for string orchestra, in memory of his friend, poet Rupert Brooke."
Matthew Westwood; Lament for Fame's First Victim; The Australian (Sydney); Aug 18, 2006.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)
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