CAPTURING TIME

Inspired by Tovli's West Virginia Writers & Poets Workshop "Dual-prompt" contest.

 

 

 

CAPTURING TIME

 

 

I try to capture time…

As the south wind blows

 Frost melts the pale

Morning sun

 

I paint ghosts and barbed wire fences

Still you stay my kindred spirits

As a love that fills my heart

And breaks my soul

 

Reaching across years

I see your faces

Pleading…..why?

Hands reaching

Across time…

 

 I pick up my heavy brush 

Paint what needs to be said

Tears have blurred my eyes

Not the visions ~

 

All these lifted arms linked together

These numberless feet treading

So close together....

 

 

~

 

 

© Helena 2008

Author's Note

THANK YOU FOR READING MY WORDS

Reviews

[Salvatore Buttaci]

This is deservedly the first-place poem entered in this contest! Congratulations on your first-place win.

Sal

[Tovli]

This is incredily well done, Helena! wonderful.

[Ravenskald]

Love this poem, very nice
"I paint ghosts and barbed wire fences
Still you stay my kindred spirits
As a love that fills my heart
And breaks my soul"
which really sums up the art of writing :)
TY for sharing this

~Raven

[angelina neves]

Wonderful poem! So beautiful!
"I pick up my heavy brush

Paint what needs to be said

Tears have blurred my eyes

Not the visions ~" - lovely...

[JohnL]

Time, sadly is not to be captured. Remembered, bridged, reached out across, but it is not just tears which dim the eyes but age and time. Your poem captures so much emotion - not just regret because memories are precious and purged - the bad fade more than the good but fade they do. I loved this poem.
Have a look at my "An Alfresco Toilette" which, though a sonnet in in somewhat similar vein.
JohnL

[Sharon Miller Bolander]

The depth of feeling in this amazing poem touches me within. Wonderfully written and most certainly appreciated, Helena! Sharon

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Oh Helena, that was so beautiful. I entered too, but mine doesn't hold a candle to yours.


Reaching across years

I see your faces

Pleading�..why?

Hands reaching

Across time�



Just beautiful

[Rey]

Profound are your words, truly a beautiful write indeed Lady Helena, aloha!