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Where are Beautiful Ones?
Ugonna Wachuku
Nothing seems real.
Not even your face.
Not even your tears
and laughter.
Silent voices are
here.
Everything is
silent.
Everyone is
silent.
Even you.
Streams and waterfalls
are silent, too.
Also, love is silent;
if you know what
I mean.
My heartbeat is
silent for the
first time.
Now, I must rise
and go to your
beckoning, silent
heart.
Drumbeats from deep
forests of home sound
no more because we are
all silent.
We have entered the
time of no return
in starring faces of
newly born souls.
Now is the time to
take up our mats
and search for love.
Let us head for
silent rivers and
streams.
Let us meet nature
in the day's
refreshing silence.
Let us stand
empty.
Naked.
In nothingness.
Let us bleed from
wounds by these
fragrant roses.
Let us search for
beautiful ones.
Let us ask where
beautiful ones
are.
?
?
?
Days are short.
Nightfall must
not meet us
because there
will be no
moonbeams.
So, let us rise;
and in the silence
of our bountiful
hearts, search for
beautiful ones
because we can.
(c) Ugonna Wachuku: 2000
Profoundly beautiful. You brought a very important message home in a way that few people can without sounding trite or like a thousand other poems. But this is a fresh and poignant presentation: the words "let us bleed from wounds by these fragrant roses" simply melts inside you, it is such a magical way to express your feelings. The simplicity, the lyrical movement of the piece, the message . . . it's simply glorious.
Great poem Ugonna! Keep it up. I'll be back to read more soon!
~*~ Jill ~*~
I really like this poem. It has a good beat to it. And this poem ends great. loved it!
very nice .....very nice indeed ....ugonna I did not plan to travel today and yet what a beautiful journey you took me on.....all I can say is thank-you!
stay safe :o)
Ugonna! I come here looking for inspiration and I am never disappointed! I am no longer looking for beautiful ones because I have found beauty in your words! thank you :-)
Ugonna! I come here looking for inspiration and I am never disappointed! I am no longer looking for beautiful ones because I have found beauty in your words! thank you :-)
Hi Ugonna, To me this poem speaks of soul searching and finding beauty within oneself... I particularly like the last line... "Because we can..."
I always find your words soothing to the soul!
Peace and love ~~~ Dougie ~~
Wow~ heavy thoughts,hey we are the beautiful ones, Bam ! next case LOL,where you went on this ride so did i,its more than special to drift away like that and i thank ya like the Moody Blues song ? thoughts are the best way to travel ! all we need is our silent ticket,i give this my highest (wish i'd wrote it). L&P
The search for beauty in our cracked and broken world is neverending. This poem takes us past the clichés of outer beauty and asks us to "stand empty. Naked. In nothingness. Let us bleed from wounds by these fragrant roses." Doing such removes us from the banalities of the preception of beauty and asks us to continue the search in the silence, beneath the skin and on into the heart. A most wondrous venture indeed!!