"Smiling So Softly..."

"Smiling So Softly..."

...the feel of the world sifting down
`tween toes lifting as we each step-in-step
continue -
the "way"...

 

...sometimes I understand less
now -
of the entirety of the "all" from before...

 

The taste of real is harsh and thick. 
It hurts to even stand still and
still we walk and pace ahead. 

The sun - burns.  The sky -
it shimmers with all we aren't
and yet still wish to be.

The voices sound all the paeans
-- as they swirl and twirl through our lives

and still we dream of memories

- some - we wish we had and
others we lost amongst the stars
we touched.

 

Chris

Author's Note

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Reviews

[J. J. Nightingale]

Seems the heavens are full with memories and prayers ..

In the twinkling of an eye , a star ..

Me ..

I feel everything , when I am alone ..

xxx Jazz

[emmajoy]

'..The taste of real is harsh and thick. ~ It hurts to even stand still .. '

But surely to feel as much - whatever it is or isn't, is a sign that one's lived or living, experiencing emotions good and bad, memories better forgotten or recalled with open arms? Can living a life ever be a calm trip, surely there'd be something wrong, an existence without experience? And the goods and the bads feed off each other, highlight or camouflage, suffer convenient amnesia ..

Your words always take me somewhere I didn't know i needed to go. ' and still we dream of memories ~ - some - we wish we had '

[Larry Dyson]

ok...I too see as you do ..some memories wanted ans so many forgotten ...hoping at that last flash..it lingers and shows all the ones...on the edge of remembrance..

[Chris]

Remember Wolowitz (Big Bang Theory) line as he sat in the Russian Rocket to go up to the Station... to paraphrase - "Wait a sec while my life flashes before my eyes!" and a heartbleat later "Done"

[Larry Dyson]

profound...I want a pause and slow play option...once is not enough..for they are the basis for my next time around..as whoever..?

[olla]

yep.. real may be harsh and thick but waiting for death is even worse.. thank heavens for the dream..

[Eve]

It seems today is about the toes pointing to some type of understanding, why is it you seem to know the answers before the questions are asked? I'm going to say three hail Mary and touch my toes THEN i'm going to bake a chocolate cake and thank all the gods for all the poets that touch our lives :)

[Chris]

Seems we don't ask easy questions BECAUSE we already know those answers... its the Hard ones that rest behind our eyes.

[Eve]

true that ...

[KAOlmsted]

"The taste of real is harsh and thick..." --I love that; can't put my finger on exactly why...I just...do. I think, probably, because anyone else would have written it as "reality"...the taste of "real" is just so much...stronger. Of course, if this was a typo *laugh* and you meant to write "reality", then disregard my pretentious blah-blah and pour me a cuppa tea ;-)

Love this.

[Chris]

Earl Gray and a slice of lemon coming right up. I may make a spelling typo - fumbly fingers and all that - but the WORD is always as chosen. No typo there.

[KAOlmsted]

I am so happy to hear that, because the WORD was perfect...and thanks for the Earl Gray...it's actually my favorite.

[Chris]

Ready for the night Kimmer?

[KAOlmsted]

As soon as she gets out of school it will be "What time is it now? Can we go now? Now? How about now?" *laugh* Looking forward to it, actually...if I told you the story of last Halloween you would chuckle yourself silly ;-)

[Chris]

I sit on the porch with bowls of candy awaiting the excited hordes... always. Love the kids and their imaginations...

[KAOlmsted]

I just like that all of the Reese's peanut butter cups go to Mommy ;-) Whoever heard of a kid who doesn't like Reese's peanut butter cups?? And don't you for one minute suggest I played a recording over and over while she slept for years that said: "You do not like Reese's peanut butter cups...give the Reese's peanut butter cups to Mommy..." *laugh*

[Emily B]

exactly

[Chris]

it HAS to be against some law for a person to be THAT quick... chuckling here...

[Emily B]

I took Anna to the doctor with me when she was real little. She took her coloring book and crayons. My doctor asked her if she knew all the colors and quick little Anna said, "I know all the ones I like."

Anymore, the same could be said for my reading patterns. I read all the ones I like.