The Earth is Still Warm

When I am not with you,
the earth is still warm
from hours that are seen no more.
I can feel the rhythm of yesterday
asking questions
when everything collects on the currents
of our own shadows.

I cast last night among the hills
where we were young and thoughtless
peered above the words
Standing
before my eyes.
Where butterflies lived inside a song
Waiting
for the world to sing.

Looking to tell a story
somehow different
from any
ever written down,
I began unlocking the mysteries of life.
I found that the beauty
of growing old
had kept its secrets well,
from my ears.

In the middle of the wonder
there must surely
lay a seed of hope in the meadows
where you and I saw fireflies
in the still of night.
Perhaps there,
we can still hear the echo
of its footsteps.

Eternity wanders through my mind
seeking praise
while the breath of truth
shows the world its strong arms.
Life awakens
to close the door on lessons learned
and yet, the earth
is still warm.

Reviews

[EMF]

love and loss ripple through this work with a slow pulse. Wonderfully alive and heartfelt. Itglows with life and love as it takes you to a different world. Unlike many poets, you don't hook and hold people in your world, but allow them to stay. Wonderful doesn't sum it up.

[Sleepless]

nice ver nice love it neva muy hermoso !:)

[Yari Garcia (Older Prof..]

Pretty poem. And I must add...the girl in the painting looks strangely like Miley Cyrus to me... o_O

[Shep]

such powerful words that flow with amazing grace. Nicely done.

[Muse]

Now that it's cold outside...the pic...your words...it felt like an Indian summer. And yes, even when one door closes...there will be another that opens, we are all eager to unlock the mystery.....hoping there's something special there..... to offer a warm earthly embrace.

[Art Sun]

your poetry holds a mystical blessing that can only come from one who has held love so close to their Soul that it breathes along their side...nicely written poetry Neva...

[Pax Analog]

This poem reminds me there is no actual absence. Indeed, the spiritual lesson gleaned from romance's rises, falls, restraints is that there IS ONLY ONE PRESENCE.

"The Earth is Still Warm" summons Buddha's touching the ground (no doubt warm w/spiritual bliss) to signal permeative Presence -- in striking contrast to the inner sky search of metaphysics and religious beliefs.

The open-endedness of this piece invites such ruminations.

Inside-out, the dance between lovers might fruitfully be considered rehearsal for the bliss of direct God-Realization, the alpha-omega of all adventuring.

Doors and windows open and close, the sky signals instant vastness, and through it all, indeed, bringing it all simply back home, "The Earth is Still Warm." Beautiful.

[Seshat Nidaba]

To have a woman's devotion like yours, must be amazing....I can nearly not imagine it. This was very sweet.

The title was like sunlight on the inside!

[Birdman313]

beautiful enjoy the setting

[Dream Weaver]

This is very enchanting, almost like a
driven quest to find ones self and discovering
much more...

[Aidz]

Where butterflies lived inside a song ohh goosebumps

As always my dear Neva a write of full desires and longings