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Innocent Questions
Nothing is ordinary when the
mountain laurels are
in bloom, when they are
white landscapes, intricate
as ancient porcelain,
and the sky has finally
opened up and
let down platinum ribbons
and reasons to believe,
and it's all trickling through
the poplars, the honeysuckle,
the luscious moss—
this is no time for
a spectacle of memories.
"Where's Mom?" my grandson asked.
His world was plastic dinosaurs and juice boxes
when I had to explain what death is:
a new life, a better place, yes, a lovely place . . .
"Can I go there,
and be with her?"
When you're an earthbound tourist, just a
few years from that Heaven where only softness
is born, there's no such thing as cancer or
mysteries with bits of crumbling answers.
"So when's she coming back?"
I always thought joy was the only thing
that could happen when God showed up,
but then, how could all that light
crack open the granite shell of pain
that seals the earth
without voices on this side?
"I'm mad at her . . .
didn't she love me?"
Two wings,
the color of
merciful fire
slow down to love
the strange blossoms,
with a type of
love only
free spirits
understand.
"She loved you so much" I recall saying,
"that she tried very hard to stay."
My words fell around him
like snow,
and his eyes were filled with trust.
Patricia Joan Jones
a question that we can`t
a question that we can`t answer,only paint them pictures
ron parrish
Thank you for your words of
Thank you for your words of wisdom.
you`re welcome
you`re welcome
ron parrish
Preserve
Your memories, they're all that's left you. - Simon and Garfunkle
Nice quote. Thank you for
Nice quote. Thank you for stopping by.
I feel like any comment of
I feel like any comment of mine would almost be an intrusion upon the delicate emotions that this poem so artistically conveys. From the poetically detailed description of the setting---which is presented with your customary verbal skill---we are given a delicate admission to a difficult, even heart-rending, conversation. Again, my comment feels intrusive because it is prose, not poetry, and only poetry can adequely speak to and about this beautiful new example of your high talent. The effect of this poem speaks to the reader in a way that only reading/and hearing it can provide; a mere comment, no matter how intensely possitive the response, cannot even begin to approach it. In this case, a comment is like a well-meaning geometry teacher trying to explain the formula that made describe the Great Pyramid---and the formula is not at all an adequate summation of it.
Starward
I'm deeply honored and
I'm deeply honored and grateful for your generous words which were, in my opinion, poetry. Many thanks.