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Reaching Out

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

If you've ever had a dream about family that awakened you suddenly, prodding you to ground its essence for later contemplation, well, this piece about my young son in the throes of making major decisions for himself might resonate. After writing it, it occurred to me that perhaps my mindset has more universal meaning than I'd originally supposed. Everyone’s conundrums, after all, are there only for resolution. (Sculpture by matteopugliese)

Saturday, February 8, 2020


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Reaching Out

 

 

Discovering the you of me…
 
Dreams awaken beneath closed eyelids
all the things I wish to tell you that may never be uttered
but just as roads present destinations defined
even as swollen waterways erode the shoulders of once reserved respite
so too are distant horizons but invitation to the unknown revealed
 
As airwaves bend to obstacles present
and infinite towers of amorphous antennae rise to connect all that is
the unsealed letters speak softly
like winds gently folding time's memories
through shifting envelopes of timelessness
 
Learning life's reality
sometimes comes just as unexpectedly as
the rainbow of pain's repose
offering lessons as memento
of now
once yesterday
delivered tomorrow
 
In my slumber, time asks I never cease sending
the echoed ripples of my trust
to wait patiently as dunes beneath the beat of your heart
knowing that one day the storms of your hearing
will awaken the sound of forever
beckoning a repositioning of yesterday's compass

 for tomorrow's destinations
 
Space knows only the boundaries of our thought
and like a pink moon rising
loving thoughts are forever present within

the me of you

and perhaps

the you of me.

 

 



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Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 9, 2020
That last stanza was just excellent. It summed things up perfectly.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on February 8, 2020
An intimate invitation in the secret heart of a relationship that we all experience in one way or another with close loved one such as parents and children.


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