"Comment allez-vous..."

Ever feel like you ARE - even if it's just a Charlie Brown?  I actually have hot coffee, am sipping it and having some "Great Pumpkin" thoughts, it's that time of year.  I guess we have to take "ooo's" and "aaah's" * (from Ed Hart's "musical cares") as we find them -- perhaps even if it's as we can only remember them?

 

"Comment allez-vous..."

 

s'il vous plait...

I know you

inside

- yesterdays

diamond eyes staring

windows - so brittle

cracks of life ...leaking in

 

si'l te plait...
- but I do,

know

...you

behind the eyes

each cut dripping - moments

of wishes we can't forget

- but God how we try.

Comments... all the how's

 

comment

 

Comme ci, comme ça -

whispers,

thoughts shared - echoes round and around

 

looking

listening... waiting

staring in the ground - so far away

beneath any notice at all

...so

 

...People eventually become who we remember they are and yet as each of us "pass" into what we become and fewer are left, how much of each of us truly remains - remembered?

 

Sometimes we appreciate existings... even ours and yet others only after life happens. So many "froms" make up our lives and beings.

Somedays the "echoes" are too full

- of life

- of breathing

- of silences felt within my eyes.

 

Seems some days are just capital H - hard and others - its like nothing that happens can touch a person, everything just falls away and nothing gets through to the skin.

"How am I?..." 

I used to think I knew

me

but I really didn't know...

 

"...clouds at all...".          *

Chris

 

* ----- "Both Sides Now." lyrics - Joni Mitchell

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Eve]

Some people and some poems touch our lives for a lifetime, you are one of those persons that people remember and come back to and this is one of those poems. I always just KNEW there was a great pumpkin out there somewhere sipping coffee being amazing.

[Chris]

Such a ...thought-full thing to express...

[Jasmine]

God, I'd forgotten how much I love your sudden-rambling-thought-webs of poetry. The phrase "great pumpkin thoughts" made me smile inside, and think of nostalgic seasonal things.
Also enjoyed the reference to Joni, and of course Ed Hart :-)
A pleasure to read.

[Ken Simm.]

Meandering thoughts but its where they meander to that is pleasing me. Every side rather than just both. Bien.

[olla]

I bet I tried to read this a hundered times today.. I should know by now that I need to have undivided attention for your work.. and even at that I had to read it half a dozen times.. and I think there is still a bit of "taste" left in it..

[emmajoy]

How to interpret your writing is always both a joy and a dilemma - how to say everything one wants to say without seeming sycophantic - but anyway..

When you leave words, something's always left behind, etched in space; it shawls thoughts, perfumes the air, remains more than a memory; and is so very special.

[Castonovia]

Vivid with such flow and rhythm, so clear, equally emotional, and deep... beautiful, well penned piece indeed :)

[Chris]

It was nice of you to pause...thank you Chel.

[Castonovia]

Anytime ;)

[John]

Loved the helter skelter rhythm. This is a quirky life affirming jazzy number.

[Heather]

First.. I love Joni Mitchell and especially that song..

Vous êtes bien mon ami, plus que bien, en fait, merveilleux

[Baby Ricochet]

It made me feel like I should Appreciate the folks around me more

[Enid Blake]

This is intense...

[Chris]

yes, it is.

[Enid Blake]

...;People eventually become...' this particular verse has such a profound clarity to it, it's inspiring to read your insights.