DREAMS SURRENDERED

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(9 June 2012 – How does one say farewell to the Hopes and Dreams of youth?  For many, Hope is the only thing that remains of a tattered Life.  Dreams the only realm where reality gives way – so one can Live with Peace and Happiness.  What does one do?  Where will Life's Journey take one?  When at last, the Hopes and Dreams of a Lifetime are finally gone?  dht)

There was a Time when youthful optimism filled each day and laid lightly on my shoulders.

Albeit, Fortune's Folly was swift to stamp out all remaining embers of Hope that mayhap lingered.

How reluctant to release one's hold - fastened so steadfast to Hopes and Dreams of Love, Family, and Friends.

For so long one's Hopes and Dreams were the Only Companions on Life's Road toward destiny.

Alas, finally, the Hopes for Tomorrow are forfeit and the Dreams Surrendered.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]

THE SHADOW – IT FELL

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(5 Nov 2011 -  It's gone – past – history – NOW, but a moment in Time that plays in the corners of one's memory and lingers after -- as a shadow that fell. 

dht-2011)

So many shapes interwoven  -- each touching another – yet lasting no longer than a fading shadow upon the others.

So many possibilities – each with potential – yet lost in the Timelessness of Fate and Heartache.

So many patterns – each unique in design – yet texture and flavor faded and lost.

The shadows -- but lingering memories that fell on the surfaces of Time.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr -- 2011]

TO WHAT PURPOSE

[Photo Source:  Google online images]

(Does anyone ever find the answers they are looking for?  Where is the repository?  Who the authority? OR, does it really matter at all?  dht-22 OCT 2011)

  

WHAT personal destiny floats on my Horizon?
WHAT purpose was I born to fulfill?
WHAT path will my footsteps take me?
WHAT hurdles lay in the road on my Journey?

So many questions --

as I wander through Life –

Always searching for the answers –

Yet always blind to the answers.

NOW I see --

   it's NOT TO WHAT PURPOSE –

BUT --

    it's       TO THE JOURNEY itself !

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr - 2011]

NATURE'S SECRETS

                  [Photo Source: Online images National Geographic]

(3 Mar 2011 -- Twice BLESSED are ye who see the heart where time and 'stance masks!  dht)

WHAT sweet poetry of NATURE'S anthem

resides in this inhospitable shell

WHAT mental stream of consciousness

keynotes a monologue of regret

WHAT creature exists on Earth's plane

at the changing mercy of NATURE'S whimsy

WHAT awaits the searcher

at the gong of life's end clock

WHAT unanswered calls of yesterday

go unsaid today and forgotten tomorrow

WHAT new dawn foretells

of fortunes lost on yesterday dreams

WHAT spent passion wounds

there cauterized by heartache

WHAT layers yet to unfold

reveal repeating patterns of yesterday shadows

WHAT sweet NATURE does restore

the balance and chase away demons

WHAT instrument NATURE's brandish

doth level the sharpness of lingering regret

WHAT rich nectar of NATURE does sustain

through moments of despair with assurance all's well

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]

 

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In this offering: What do you notice about the words? Their meaning? Sentence structure? Pairing of Sentences? First word, middle, or last words of Sentences? What words could be substituted? What connection words added for clarity? What meaning of your own would you assign to these words, phrases, sentences?

 

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WHAT patterns do you see in this PIX?

WHAT mysteries of NATURE come to mind?

WHAT phantoms, demons, shadows await the explorer?

WHAT season is this?

WHAT time of day's cycle?

WHAT abode? Permanent? Temporal?

WHAT are you? Participant? Observer? Advisor? Companion? Uninvolved? Disinterested?

Don't give a 'hoot' or 'whistle'?

JUST an interesting PIX and some jumble of syllables?

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