by Chana M.
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June 6, 2008

The Sands of Light

May 17, 2009 03:31 PM EDT (Updated: June 07, 2009 10:05 PM EDT)
views: 138 | comments: 28

You trip so sweetly across the sands of light,
spreading your love to all who will accept it.
Giving your heart openly, spreading beauty on the page.
Beauty shining through eyes I have never seen,
are you blue eyed I wonder.
Getting to know you.
Just getting to know you.
Yet already seeing beauty through my heart's eye.
Very human, you have a care.
Making you more compelling to those of us who stand here,
waiting for the train to whisk us away,
to a place we long to go.
Thinking of you today it just came out, whoosh!
Over time to know you better would be my wish.

© JACM 6 June 2009

I hope you like it.
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Comments: 28

Svetlana Goryacheva May 17, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
Am I right to see here a connection with Kobo Abe's "Woman in the Dunes"? An excellent work, Chanochka! :-)

Shalom veahava - S.
Maurice K. May 17, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
Very nicely done.
Chana M. May 17, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
Sveta, its just something that said to me I fit. Thats usually how it works. I go looking and something picks itself. Yesterday someone said they did not make the connection on something else I wrote. I guess its one of those things like when a pair of shoes tells you to take them home?
Rose H. May 17, 2009, 4:43pm EDT
This is a beautiful piece both the words and the art.
Patty Mayonaise May 17, 2009, 4:47pm EDT
lovely
Jennifer Lee May 17, 2009, 5:04pm EDT
This is too beautiful and poignant for words, Chana. I get the feeling when I read it that you're speaking these words directly to me. Lovely and well written. You, my dear, have a magic pen and muse. Thank you for posting to our group. Love and hugs, Jen
norene t. May 17, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
very nice chana
Jennifer Lee May 17, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
I've been here and read it three times already. I'd like to print it and save it in a book of poetry (Just Me and John Beck wrote poems for me that I saved there, too), if that's alright with you. Let me know. You are a very kind and loving soul, Chana!
Jennifer Lee May 17, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
This poem sounds so lyrical when read aloud that it is as gorgeous as some classical music. Your poem is now featured in our group.
Sharon P. May 17, 2009, 5:27pm EDT
That's lovely.
tammie p. May 17, 2009, 5:40pm EDT
beautiful piece
Janie E. May 17, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
Like it?? I love it!!
Renee S. May 17, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
Very nice. I enjoyed it.
libramoon C. May 17, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
like a meditative prayer to beauty's sacred well
drinking deeply with subtlety of sensation
expanding metaphoric cells with
water of life and contemplation
reaching for more
Georgiana S. May 17, 2009, 8:20pm EDT
Chana, I thought this was to me as well, so Jennifer and I had the same reaction.
love the picture as well.
Good one girl!
Charlie B. May 17, 2009, 9:32pm EDT
Very nice.
JOHN BECK May 17, 2009, 9:49pm EDT
I see both the poem and the image as looking into a mirror.
debra g. May 17, 2009, 10:43pm EDT
Have a great gather day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting to sparealine.gather.com
A beautiful offering of gem words and pearl thoughts from you~
Thank you for posting to GutterGirls~
Haim Kadman May 18, 2009, 10:22am EDT
A lovely poem Chana, thanks.
Kushal Poddar May 18, 2009, 11:35am EDT
This composition has a comforting aura.

memoir and poet
Quinn (aka Entwife) Blackburn May 18, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
lovely work, thank you for feeding me with your poetry today

..
U wishing you laughter
Angela A. May 19, 2009, 12:37am EDT
I love sand as much as I'm loving your poem right now!

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Atticus *. May 21, 2009, 11:39pm EDT

Chana, such a lovely piece! It is amazing how you have fleshed out this flush of infatuation with an unknown. How classic is its beauty, yet how contemporary the theme. Excellent work. Love the painting, or is it a print? (I collect Japanese prints.)
Chana M. May 22, 2009, 4:55am EDT

Atticus, I use Google Images for any artwork that I put with my poems. There is usually one that says "Here I am", normally that one just fits. I do link bck to where it came from, sometimes you can find more informatiion that you might find interesting.
Jennifer Lee May 24, 2009, 4:56pm EDT

Printing it now. Thanks again, Chana dear!

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