 |
Poems On Site: 198,500+ Comments On Poems: 427,000+ Forum Posts: 105,000+ |
Custom Search
|
|
|
||||
| Welcome ! | Home · FAQ · Topics · Web Links · Your Account · Submit Poetry · Top 30 · OldSite Link | 02-June 09:57:43 AEST | ||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
Array
(
[sid] => 75184
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Auburn Tears
[time] => 2004-12-10 12:14:49
[hometext] => I wrote this watching the sunset one night, just a few feelings i have about man's presence in the world :)
[bodytext] => Auburn Tears By Jim Hellekson I ran against the wind today to try and get away from the plights of life, and as my muscles began to ache, I looked to the sky, searching for an old friend, to whom my problems I could take. There on the horizon I found my friend, casting his shadow upon all the land, but something was wrong, in his eyes I could see a sadness, something man was not meant to understand. And as I stared into his face auburn tears began to flow, and his face once so peaceful became hot, as if a fire was seething deep below. There that fire continued to rage deep inside his mind, and memories of better days past he was seemingly trying to find. I asked my friend what was wrong? As his face grew ever more aglow. “Look what you have done to me” he said, and anger for me he began to show. “You have taken away the beauty of this place” In a deep voice he said to me “Your kind is so uncaring so naïve to the lives of another race” “What have I done?” I said as my conscience grew ever more awake. “Do you see that house on the horizon?” He asked, an old barn stood there, creating a ripple inside his wake “You cut down my trees to make that” he said “and homes of my people you did take, you care only for yourselves and all of my beauty you desire to break” I now understood what he meant as his tears filled the sky, and I asked him what I could do to relieve his pain to destroy his hate inside. “Live at peace he said, others do not deserve to die just because they tread on your path, or in from of you continue to fly” “My tears will remain long after you are gone” he said as his face began to sink out of the sky. “Please remember what I have told you my son, peace is the only way to keep my beauty alive.” And as I watched him fade away, his words I kept in my head, words of wisdom from someone who has seen my ancestors both alive and long ago dead. The path to home to mankind is now all that lies before, but as I left, I turned around as one last Auburn Tear fell forevermore. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 212 [topic] => 27 [informant] => JBH [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => NaturePoetry )
|
Menu
· 
Poetry
Community
Members
Areas
Reference
Search
Top
Others
Poetry is much like a great photo, a single "moment in time" capturing many feelings and emotions. Yet, they are very alive; creating stirrings within the readers who form visual "pictures" of the expressed emotions within the Poem. ©
Opinions expressed in the poetry, comments, forums etc. on this site are not necessarily those of this site, its owners and/or operators; but of the individuals who post items to this site.
Frequently Asked Questions | | | Privacy Policy | | | Contact Webmaster
All submitted items are Copyright © to their submitter. All the rest Copyright © 2002-2050 by Your Poetry Dot Com
All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owners.
Script Generation Time: 0.052 Seconds. - View our Site Map | .© your-poetry.com