Wednesday 18 June 2014

LIGHT AND DARK

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Spectacular seasons

Come and go

No unfulfilled promise

Do they show

 

There is joy in living

There is joy in dying

A death is a birth

They utter in mirth

 

They are words of the

Passage of time

In darkness and light

Do they chime

 

Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Light and Dark @ Poets United

 

22 comments:

  1. smiles....light and dark are often what we make of them...the shadow of a tree can be as sweat as the kiss of the sun on our skin...and death as much a relief as life...

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  2. Wow, Sumana! Sometimes I feel us on the same wave length. I like the ending words so much: show, mirth, chime ... Let me feel part of all of them, and of the joy too. Thank you.

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  3. The simplicity of your words is deceptively brilliant and shows so much knowing of life..and death...darkness and light..illuminating!

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  4. Simple, precise, beautiful

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  5. No unfulfilled promises, just joy and mirth. Something to take with me on my journey today.

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  6. Life cycles, light and dark, seasons passing, birth and death.....I love "no unfulfilled promise".

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  7. Not easy to retain this optimism in the face of death.
    But we carry death within us from birth. Well said with unusual rhyme words as a treat.

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  8. Darkness and light indeed do chime, Sumana. We can't have one without the other. I think we all need to find joy in the dying.....in order to make sense of the living. I always enjoy your poetry, Sumana.

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  9. I love the passages of time you convey so eloquently here. Happy Wednesday to you (well maybe it is Thursday)

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  10. Everything tells its story with mirth: darkness and light, birth and death, opposing and conjunctive. Words that sing the story... thank you for them.

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  11. Love the peacefulness in your poem, feels good :)x

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  12. beautiful Sumana..i liked the last lines..very reflective ones

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  13. Come what may life goes on.lovely message..in your poem

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  14. The last para takes the cake. Beautiful poem, Sumana... may these simple pearls of wisdom inspire and empower all of us!

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  15. At present I confess that I struggle with the idea of finding joy in dying. Hopefully this will change. I liked how your poem made me think, Sumana.

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  16. There is joy in living and no joy in dying. I have seen people die...it is awful!

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  17. Couldn't help but wonder if you meant reincarnation in the line: death is a birth cause I am studying Hinduism and Buddhism at the moment and did a paper on it. But anyway, love the simplicity and the reference to the seasons.

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  18. Seasons of years and life passing certainly do reflect light and dark. Nice one.

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  19. Life and birth..light and dark...I love the sweet rhyming... :-)

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  20. A death is a birth, I admire the courage to face and accept this ~

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  21. I enjoyed this very much...dark and light, passage of the seasons, birth/death. You have captured so much.

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