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Life’s Discards What arises from a seemingly affront the house abandoned but a visitor arrives and calls for meaning From chaos she perches on a suitcase in the center of the room wood paneled walls and a white stone Fire place serve as the backdrop it gives the place its first telling impact a value is suggested put sight to The test now family items strewn about only make up debris but just a time in the short past this room Was filled with everything that engendered comfort now the flow is a negative one that runs down Through each piece that suggests wicker chair you once were deemed precious and worthy of serious Attachment now you belong in a trash heap but for the heart and mind that is left to assess it is a weight Of brooding as you fix what at first just speaks of a simple travesty we feel and are moved by forgotten Things without life or means to speak they convey essential truths they argue for endurance and a Common thread that shows continuance even though they are abandoned and are thought to be Worthless by the previous owner the stranger will carry them away in her mind and memory as items She can’t forget because she elevated them to a place of endearment in the very disorder of ruin she With tenderness without words ascribes to them a worth even if it is just costly shadows that now enter The mystery and intrigue that intrude into all of our thoughts at times of contemplation where ever They arise in the dark evening or at morning twig light this room and others like it make up the physical Dimensions of that subconscious world the swirl and excitement that crashes against our outer lives That gives it untold riches meaning without understanding but a buttress a force that defies attacks of Various kinds we are more bemused than overwhelmed and that power rests in many things but a lot Are just yesterdays discards
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Feb 20, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM UTC
Life’s Discards
Life’s Discards What arises from a seemingly affront the house abandoned but a visitor arrives and calls for meaning From chaos she perches on a suitcase in the center of the room wood paneled walls and a white stone Fire place serve as the backdrop it gives the place its first telling impact a value is suggested put sight to The test now family items strewn about only make up debris but just a time in the short past this room Was filled with everything that engendered comfort now the flow is a negative one that runs down Through each piece that suggests wicker chair you once were deemed precious and worthy of serious Attachment now you belong in a trash heap but for the heart and mind that is left to assess it is a weight Of brooding as you fix what at first just speaks of a simple travesty we feel and are moved by forgotten Things without life or means to speak they convey essential truths they argue for endurance and a Common thread that shows continuance even though they are abandoned and are thought to be Worthless by the previous owner the stranger will carry them away in her mind and memory as items She can’t forget because she elevated them to a place of endearment in the very disorder of ruin she With tenderness without words ascribes to them a worth even if it is just costly shadows that now enter The mystery and intrigue that intrude into all of our thoughts at times of contemplation where ever They arise in the dark evening or at morning twig light this room and others like it make up the physical Dimensions of that subconscious world the swirl and excitement that crashes against our outer lives That gives it untold riches meaning without understanding but a buttress a force that defies attacks of Various kinds we are more bemused than overwhelmed and that power rests in many things but a lot Are just yesterdays discards
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Feb 20, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM UTC
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