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Origami.
by Andrew S Adamsa child folds paper to pass the time
as the wind casts
the rain into the walls;
the percussive tap fills him
with a wild abandon;
as the front door opens,
his father enters and
the paper escapes;
she is a fragile bit of
graceful beauty-
a paper crane
caught inside a hurricane
and the eye of the storm
is surely her salvation;
broken wings and all, she'll make it
and the sun will be shining as she
soars up, up, up
over the clouds of the storm
it's a clear day, and she looks down
upon a sea of raindrops, laughing;
her wings healed, her soul cleansed
her body freed from constraint.
Her love is boundless as the storms
start to clear, and down below
the child stares up in to an endless sky,
and faintly, he sees a figure pass
in front of the sun.
he folds another crane. 10/29/2007 Author's Note: poem for my mother's eulogy. ps 10/31/07 thank you. this place gives me strength. i know that this is the second poem of mine in a couple of months you've read as POTD- i am speechless. so thank you.
Posted on 10/29/2007
Copyright © 2024 Andrew S Adams
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gira Bryant on 10/29/07 at 10:44 PM Beautiful. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 10/30/07 at 03:00 AM A beautiful scene you have painted here, and a deeply touching poem for a eulogy. |
| Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 10/31/07 at 07:52 AM Absolutely beautiful, transcendent poem. The origami image, the folding intricacy of life, the floating expansive escape of the "paper crane" is exquisite. An inspiring, meaningful choice for POTD, on such a day... putting the fragility, airy lightness and depth of life and death into "boundless" perspective. The concentration, love and purpose of the origami making child are ours-- in our effort to experience and turn life to art. |
| Posted by Maria Massarella on 10/31/07 at 08:34 AM What silence you bring into my inner universe as rain soundtracks this day. In the hands of a child folding a crane the unfolding of a Mother's Angelwings. Your beautiful words are the breath - the boundless love the light of her ascension ... lovelight&peace *m.angelina |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 10/31/07 at 02:23 PM Wonderful to see this as POTD! |
| Posted by Bruce W Niedt on 11/01/07 at 02:44 AM Andrew, I'm so sorry for your loss. But this is a beautiful elegy - and eulogy. Congrats on POTD.... |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 11/01/07 at 03:54 AM Andrew, I, too, wrote a poem for my mother's funeral. This poem honors her - it's beautiful and sensitive. Congratulations on POTD and I am sorry for your loss. No words can adequately describe the feeling inside when this happens.
~Chelle~ |
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