Hearts Knock None Stop
for Cynthia Sue Fisher
pelicans fishing still, just off the beach,
washing up upon Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
no break in this process in all these years
since she and I broke up
salt water with fishes,
with pelicans fishing,
wash upon the shores of broken hearts
sting like tears sting
rims of eyes red
tears like rain about to fall, to wash
but memory clings, stains sustain
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
11:41 a.m. 8July/07
for Cynthia Sue Fisher
pelicans fishing still, just off the beach,
washing up upon Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
no break in this process in all these years
since she and I broke up
salt water with fishes,
with pelicans fishing,
wash upon the shores of broken hearts
sting like tears sting
rims of eyes red
tears like rain about to fall, to wash
but memory clings, stains sustain
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
11:41 a.m. 8July/07
posted by Obie Quiet at 11:45 AM
2 Comments:
oh how sorrowful this thing called time, smiles at us while we fade away and everything goes on unchanged...
Nature does seem indifferent; as if there was no connection or relationship between the tide of the blood and the tides which end, which wash up upon beaches as in Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach". Poem was required to study carefully and came to love in an English class at Memphis State University where the muse of "Hearts Knock None Stop" and I actually met.
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