Elsa's word pieces
GENTLE STATES OF MIND
GRIEF, SADNESS, LOSS
INNER A-BOMB
ANGER, FRUSTATION, RAGE
LONGING, LONELINESS
Making My Dreams Come True
THOUGHTS ABOUT
STATES of MIND
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THE HIGHEST WALLS
The highest walls
the thickest of all
The hardest walls
the hardest of all
walls inside myself
Like the walls of a dam
Like a fortress that guards
Like an iceberg that holds
something deep in the cold
something alive
but it can't thrive
can barely survive
Sometimes a glimpse
comes of what's inside
grief like a tide
grief more than fear
grief more than love
Is there love behind the grief
like a valley on the other side of hills?
There is grief
oceans deep
but I don't weep
my eyes are dry
I try to find my way in
How could those walls
come tumbling down
melt
crumble
Would I be swept under, I wonder
Would I be swept aside
There have been breaks
in that thick thick wall
deep grief
from which grew
life
grief after love, after loss
And then the wall was back
But the landscape had changed
Is there a door somewhere?
Is there a sluice gate
so I could choose to let
water flow?
A wall with gates is not a wall at all -
not like the wall of thorns
holding Sleeping Beauty in
not like a prison wall
Is there a way to
not tumble the wall
not make it all fall
but to let me over
let me in and explore?
is there a magic key?
has it been long enough? -
like Sleeping Beauty's hundred years
am I agile and strong enough?
or could I slip through the wall?
Could there be
changing landscapes
reshaping
as I find ways
over under through
the wall?
Elsa
October 25, 2009
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A dozen
years ago,
I began to wake up
with word pieces -
words music, spoken word, songs -
in my head.
Escape velocity.
Echo of the echo.
Tank almost empty.
Can't cross the gap.
Welcome into my world.
MUSINGS ON CHANGE, INNER CHANGE
inner journey poems
following an inner flow
finding where the going is slow
inner journey
inner voyage
poem journey
journey poems
those words flow
sometimes I do not
poetry journey
to poem stuck
poems stuck
struck by stuckness
change poems
life change poem
change poem
which words say it
which words convey it
and how to change
it was Shakespeare who said
ay, there's the rub
not about massage
about ...
the words are easier
life changes poem
poem on change, life change
changes and more changes poems
poems on change
poem about change
I say, easier said than done
easier wished than reached
life change poems
life changes poems
and then there is life
Elsa
October 31, 2009
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