Great Expectations
bear hibernates in
winter suggests it is a good time
for going
inside checking in on our deepest selves
looking at where we have
been during the past
year spring summer and fall
each year can be seen as a
journey perhaps we begin the year
with a happy swagger and great
expectations soon enough
we are overtaken by sorrow a
companion
that comes into every life yet by some
miracle mysteriously
we find the strength to continue greet
each new day
or we swivel and die like spring
flowers so i will follow bear inside
wait for
spring when all is shining and new again
November 8, 2015
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Color Me Blue
in the quiet of my
room i find myself submerged in thoughts of yesterday
some of these
thoughts are weighted with sorrow yet i do not allow them
to burden me i
think of other things more immediate
i think about
color how it vibrates when one color is next to another
how to change a
color how it can become more red and still stay blue
or go all the way to
purple i am lost in the ideas about color almost everything
we see can be
identified as a color variations on a theme
lighter or
darker brighter or duller i look for these vibrations
beneath it
all other thoughts are still with me i think of you
November 8, 2015
10 comments:
I don't think we can help think those thoughts of yesterday, but I do like the idea of (when the sorrowful thoughts appear) thinking of other things such as the vibrancy of color! Lovely poems today, Annell.
luv the hope of "great expectations" its endearing and encouraging
have a nice Sunday
much love...
Such beautiful emotion in your verse.. love it!
Beautifully penned.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
I am with bear and will be finishing soon to sleep the long sleep of winter...rest is needed for spring to bloom again....your second verse holds so much truth...we can only distract ourselves for so long before the thoughts we are escaping come back
My name Björn is actually bear, so I have great sympathy with hibernation... but right now I actually long for the real winter of January and February... i hope for skates and skis... but I think also the winter penetrates our soul and impregnate it with sorrow.
I especially love the first poem, like bear going within ourselves for the winter, to sort through the year, the work, the journey. I love the contemplation of colours in the second poem...nice to focus one's mind on, as we set aside worrisome thoughts.
I think we can all do with some hibernation and inward looking time. Good stuff.
Two wonderful pieces which make each other shine brighter and resonate even more..it makes me think that respect, love, remembrance isn't about stopping but rather carrying on - in the best way we can...finding colour and life and having those we love still with us in that creation xo
excellent.
I like the perspective of hibernation...restoring our senses, and in second even more to dip oneself in the color, its vibrancy...I wish I could do it again one day....Lovely poignant poems
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