Grant Me the Wish
Grant me the wish to walk your road
smooth again
to clip the path free of such moments
as only the young have
to believe without question
no life is fixed in a certain direction.
Grant me the wish to hear in your words
not who I am not yet
who I might be in such moments
as only the young have
to forget the obstacles to yes
because the heart is right.
Grant me the wish to need of you
no more or less
to claim in such moments
as only the young have
to offer the lot of themselves
if only fragments exist.
Grant me the wish to draw for you
one perfect circle close
around us in such moments
as only the young have
to uncontain the infinity that hides
in all the space between.
© 2010 Maureen E. Doallas. All Rights Reserved.
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I wrote this poem for Carry on Tuesday, which each week provides a prompt that participants are to use wholly or partly in an original poem or prose piece.
The prompt for Tuesday, May 4, is the opening line of Part One of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line: "Only the young have such moments".
To read other contributors' poems or prose for Prompt #51, please go here. Be sure to check back Tuesday for the complete list of participants.
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11 comments:
love love love. :)
oh, yes, grant me these.
beautiful, Maureen.
your words give me pause ...
3 wishes not enough? :)
We all wish for all of these and more besides, if we're honest
I do like this :-)
THIS WAS SIMPLE YET SO VERY EFFECTIVE...I LOVED YOUR STYLE...BEAUTIFUL AND SUBTLE...
KEEP WRITING...
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A great piece of poetry here to ponder in my early morning meditation. Thank you!
xo
Just wonderful - it flows, and I hear the music in the poem.
An evocative poem that speaks through the silence of thoughts! Especially loved the lines:
"to forget the obstacles to yes
because the heart is right."
Beautifully expressed!
such a beutiful voice, with a smooth, meaningful message.
thanks for sharing.
wonderful use of words here. If I had the power I would grant you those wishes but no for me. It would be for the lost and the forsaken that they may love again.
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