EARTH CHAINED Wings of the western minds fly them to outposts Wings of soft whispering, sure and stretched afar Alighting for moments of sweet encradling A planet's bright life or the birth of a star.
But crunch and the granite of gravel and greed Harshly grind the dark thoughts of man grey and cruel The mind of the Earth man is heavy like lead Chaining the free minds who'd fly light free in space Wings of the eastern minds inwardly seeking Seeking illumination, hurt by the dark Suffocating, those who once knew life's splendour Now dying in traps by the evil powers laid.
Light spirits with wings, fly free to your homeland Warm hearts will open to welcome you again Minds tuned to Light and to brightness and laughter You must fly away from the Earth and its men Pity the grey granite heavy human life Sorrowful eyes have never kindled to joy Onward, to burn with the inner life impulse You must pity souls of men caught in dark clay Fly away friend, thou human fleet-foot of race Escape the darkening limits of mind flight Skim through the seaweed encircling earth pole cap Wing your return to home in realms high above Foreign you are in this world of the Earth man Unwanted your talents of hand and of mind Many hearts harden, few eyes glance up above Poor hearts are laden, without magic of Love.
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EARTHLY FULFILMENT The longing for spaces And freedom from cramp The cities sad limits So grey made by man The yearning for nature Green paddocks and hills Flowing streams and blue skies Bush shelter for roof We've now moved from the town With its smokestack dark Where Nature's strict rationed In sports field and park From all that we now feel Has oppressed our lives And returned to the hills With renewed life spark This is ours now, the land Sweet clod of new green Ours now is the great joy See mists subtly rise Our wealth's in the diamonds Of dewdrops - sun born The flowers splash their colour Birds chirping at dawn We toil hard, dawn to dark We rest when we choose Full delights we enjoy All pleasures not lose We live in a rhythm Cyclic work and rest Feeling keen and alive Each day as the rest We enjoy well earned sleep We leap to greet day Loving sunset and rise In tune come what may And our life lived before Seems wasted life time Was strife, stressing, straining Man's ladder to climb There're no cares we have here But care for what's there Transitory owners Of the farm we hold dear Until others come To nurture our dear land Our flowers and our trees Extending love to all these.
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ENEMIES AS BEFORE We met - our eyes did meet and clash With soundless thunder and unseen flash Not struck from love's most gentle glance But great dark challenge of souls in wrath We met - our hearts did stir to hate With unwelcome dark return of fate Not brought from love's true gentle bind But deep disturbance of heart and mind We met - our minds stood lone, apart Strange, unfamiliar impulse to part From each - sphere of non-attraction Sad, unblending spirits in friction We met - as enemies again From a dim recall of souls' life strain Unresolved, hate's bond between us Undiminished, darkness engulfs us (Repeatedly I know we'll meet again As oft in many lives we've lived before And will again meet to clash, clang and fight Until new attitudes put hate to flight) Mistrust of ages, soul's alert May these diminish, to quell the hurt May light of will and new hope dawn Enemies of old not yield to scorn Perhaps there's reason for mistrust Our old hatred due to death and lust But wasted life to squander more Friendship dawns, though enemies before.
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ENERGY Fiercely, it shatters through its cloud renting lightning blaze Plunging to anchor force from its origin in space Blazing in sunshine radiating earth at the dawn Giving warmth to all life from its powerful sun star Mysteriously mirrored in lake, ocean and pool As moonlight responds to the watery element, cool Softly caressing with each gentle breeze and air flow In delicate traces all forms to embrace and know Fluttering through movements of the green fronds and dry grass And the wings of the wild birds which disturb as they pass Twittering with quick, minute orchestration of sounds Of the rustling green leaves and the bird life all around Flowing with great surging patterns and tides in the sea Waves undulating, crashing, restless ever they be Cascading through rivulet, waterfall, flowing stream Laughing, tumbling, all joyous with sunlit's brightest gleam Sleeping, snoring in earth caves which the huge rocks encase Awaiting quickening before new life of a race Thundering with every violent earth shudder and quake Avalanche, nature's explosion or that which men make Shining in myriads of lights subtle or sun born In twinkling of stars, glistening tears or on dewy morn Uprising to heaven in smoke, vapours, clouds, mist, steam Calling men's thoughts to devotion, to prayer and to dream Drawing up the sap and the life bringing blood of man Inspires new growth in its Great Architectural Plan Creating in billion ways that are secret, some known All life is evolving with purpose few men are shown Regulating heart beat in kingdoms of man and beast Rhythms all attuned to some divine Source till life ceased Shatters, destroys in atom or galactic event Both small and great, in explosions energy is spent Energy explodes in atoms or great, great Light Stars Nature's law ever changes forms, transforms, never mars.
Whispering, discreet, its secrets in each human breast Conveys silent instruction for spirits peace and rest Only when known where energy is born and it dies Will we recognise this as life's grand Quest and its prize.
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Copyright © "Forgotten Dreams - a Collection of Poems" -by Elizabeth S.
Adams 2000 A collection of poems that I would wish offers some general interest.
They are captured thoughts that gathered and passed again in response to nature and to life experiences common to us all at times when our soul is moved to perceive the beauty and the wonder of existence or when struggling with the complexities of human existence.
But crunch and the granite of gravel and greed Harshly grind the dark thoughts of man grey and cruel The mind of the Earth man is heavy like lead Chaining the free minds who'd fly light free in space Wings of the eastern minds inwardly seeking Seeking illumination, hurt by the dark Suffocating, those who once knew life's splendour Now dying in traps by the evil powers laid.
Light spirits with wings, fly free to your homeland Warm hearts will open to welcome you again Minds tuned to Light and to brightness and laughter You must fly away from the Earth and its men Pity the grey granite heavy human life Sorrowful eyes have never kindled to joy Onward, to burn with the inner life impulse You must pity souls of men caught in dark clay Fly away friend, thou human fleet-foot of race Escape the darkening limits of mind flight Skim through the seaweed encircling earth pole cap Wing your return to home in realms high above Foreign you are in this world of the Earth man Unwanted your talents of hand and of mind Many hearts harden, few eyes glance up above Poor hearts are laden, without magic of Love.
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EARTHLY FULFILMENT The longing for spaces And freedom from cramp The cities sad limits So grey made by man The yearning for nature Green paddocks and hills Flowing streams and blue skies Bush shelter for roof We've now moved from the town With its smokestack dark Where Nature's strict rationed In sports field and park From all that we now feel Has oppressed our lives And returned to the hills With renewed life spark This is ours now, the land Sweet clod of new green Ours now is the great joy See mists subtly rise Our wealth's in the diamonds Of dewdrops - sun born The flowers splash their colour Birds chirping at dawn We toil hard, dawn to dark We rest when we choose Full delights we enjoy All pleasures not lose We live in a rhythm Cyclic work and rest Feeling keen and alive Each day as the rest We enjoy well earned sleep We leap to greet day Loving sunset and rise In tune come what may And our life lived before Seems wasted life time Was strife, stressing, straining Man's ladder to climb There're no cares we have here But care for what's there Transitory owners Of the farm we hold dear Until others come To nurture our dear land Our flowers and our trees Extending love to all these.
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ENEMIES AS BEFORE We met - our eyes did meet and clash With soundless thunder and unseen flash Not struck from love's most gentle glance But great dark challenge of souls in wrath We met - our hearts did stir to hate With unwelcome dark return of fate Not brought from love's true gentle bind But deep disturbance of heart and mind We met - our minds stood lone, apart Strange, unfamiliar impulse to part From each - sphere of non-attraction Sad, unblending spirits in friction We met - as enemies again From a dim recall of souls' life strain Unresolved, hate's bond between us Undiminished, darkness engulfs us (Repeatedly I know we'll meet again As oft in many lives we've lived before And will again meet to clash, clang and fight Until new attitudes put hate to flight) Mistrust of ages, soul's alert May these diminish, to quell the hurt May light of will and new hope dawn Enemies of old not yield to scorn Perhaps there's reason for mistrust Our old hatred due to death and lust But wasted life to squander more Friendship dawns, though enemies before.
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ENERGY Fiercely, it shatters through its cloud renting lightning blaze Plunging to anchor force from its origin in space Blazing in sunshine radiating earth at the dawn Giving warmth to all life from its powerful sun star Mysteriously mirrored in lake, ocean and pool As moonlight responds to the watery element, cool Softly caressing with each gentle breeze and air flow In delicate traces all forms to embrace and know Fluttering through movements of the green fronds and dry grass And the wings of the wild birds which disturb as they pass Twittering with quick, minute orchestration of sounds Of the rustling green leaves and the bird life all around Flowing with great surging patterns and tides in the sea Waves undulating, crashing, restless ever they be Cascading through rivulet, waterfall, flowing stream Laughing, tumbling, all joyous with sunlit's brightest gleam Sleeping, snoring in earth caves which the huge rocks encase Awaiting quickening before new life of a race Thundering with every violent earth shudder and quake Avalanche, nature's explosion or that which men make Shining in myriads of lights subtle or sun born In twinkling of stars, glistening tears or on dewy morn Uprising to heaven in smoke, vapours, clouds, mist, steam Calling men's thoughts to devotion, to prayer and to dream Drawing up the sap and the life bringing blood of man Inspires new growth in its Great Architectural Plan Creating in billion ways that are secret, some known All life is evolving with purpose few men are shown Regulating heart beat in kingdoms of man and beast Rhythms all attuned to some divine Source till life ceased Shatters, destroys in atom or galactic event Both small and great, in explosions energy is spent Energy explodes in atoms or great, great Light Stars Nature's law ever changes forms, transforms, never mars.
Whispering, discreet, its secrets in each human breast Conveys silent instruction for spirits peace and rest Only when known where energy is born and it dies Will we recognise this as life's grand Quest and its prize.
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Copyright © "Forgotten Dreams - a Collection of Poems" -by Elizabeth S.
Adams 2000 A collection of poems that I would wish offers some general interest.
They are captured thoughts that gathered and passed again in response to nature and to life experiences common to us all at times when our soul is moved to perceive the beauty and the wonder of existence or when struggling with the complexities of human existence.