Wednesday, February 22, 2017

yellow river




i rest my head on yellow river
string two hearts apart
denied of pleasure i seek trees
their branches brown and dark

i fall as water on the stone
make my heart a bed of rock
tethered sun melts all thought
and need of mercies made

grass to branch
stone to moss, river to a rivers edge

to rest my head on yellow river
i string two hearts                           apart


bkmackenzie
2017

14 comments:

  1. Sweet, the river that feeds this garden

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  2. I love this share, with the refrain still with two hearts apart ~

    Can you please get in touch with me at: sometimesg@yahoo.com ?

    Grace from D'verse ~

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  3. I'm feeling a tragic parting here with those separate hearts and "I fall as water on the stone, make my heart a bed of rock"...sounds desolate and lonely.
    Gayle ~

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  4. sounds like a broken heart

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  5. So beautiful and tenderly written ❤️

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  6. The thought of hearts apart sounds like it's hard to mend.

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  7. Lovely the sensibility of this and your voice is fresh and inventive too - "tethered sun melts all thought
    and need of mercies made..." I especially liked this

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  8. Still beautiful on the second reading !

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  9. I can sense the loneliness of the separated hearts that need a place to sleep for the night but not together.

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  10. ahhh god...its hurts. they say the heart grows fonder...but bitterness must be kept at bay. the old enemy

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