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A Summer Heatwave

Posted by Heather's Starting End on July 29, 2015
Posted in: Friendship, life, poetry, wordpress. Tagged: heatwave, poetry, saying hello, summer, Switzerland, time flies, vacation, wordpress friends. 7 Comments

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My Dear WordPress Friends,
If my absence of writing and visiting you has been noticed, it is because my Family and I have been enjoying an amazingly hot summer here in Switzerland with temps that had held the 100 degree mark for almost 5 ongoing weeks. This was done without air conditioning which made it a challenge as well. A big challenge some days 🙂

I hope you are all too, making the best of this wonderful season and are working less, enjoying some shade with  a cool drink or best yet, have your toes in the sand!

I look very much forward to coming back and catching up with all of you and reading how this time has inspired you.

Much love to those close and far away,
Heather

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I

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 22, 2015
Posted in: life, poems, poetry, relationships. Tagged: life, love, poems, poetry, relationship.

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I
Have
Never been
As numb as I am
Right now
Today

I
Have
Never been
So detached
Ripped up
Afraid

I
Have
Never felt
Such a loss while
Still being
Whole

I
Have
Hurt the one
I love, I doubted
His very
Soul

I
Now beg
For Todays rain
To please come wash
Hurt and pain
Away
.
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Dreams and Mistakes

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 22, 2015
Posted in: life, poems, poetry. Tagged: ageing, direction, dreams, growing, learning, life poems, lifes path, mistakes, poems, poetry, youth. Leave a comment

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Sometimes I wonder, just where I am
How did I end up here?
I thought my eyes, open, along the way,
As I journeyed through more, than the half of my years

Other times, I wonder, what’s up next?
There must be more in this life to see
Or did I live it already, take it for granted,
When I was young, living easy, wild and carefree

In this moment, I reminisce, of just where I’ve been,
While reaching for memories of long ago
Melancholy grasps at the depth of my heart,
As these visions of then, slowly unfold

Of when life once was full with promise and hope
While my dreams were still in the make
The years ahead, more than ones that had passed
There was plenty of time, to make lifes mistakes

And mistakes I had made, I’m sure by the dozens
Some taught lessons, some left pain
There were times when a dozen, were made in one day
Some I still make, over and over again

What have I learned, as I examined my path?
What is it that I can say?
Not just lessons and pain, but dreams too, are still mine,
To accept and embrace for the rest of my days.

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Haiku

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 19, 2015
Posted in: haiku, nature, poems, poetry, spring haiku. Tagged: beauty, haiku, haiku poem, nature poem, poem, poetry, rebirth, Spring Haiku. Leave a comment

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Nature blooms with pride

Suns caress, rains warmth, airs scent

Rebirth of Spring life

Photo:  www.myphotobag.com

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Sensuous Season

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 17, 2015
Posted in: life, love, poems, poetry, summer. Tagged: erotic poem, love poem, poem, poem about summer, poetry, sensual poem, summer night poem, summer poem. 10 Comments

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Sumptuous summer,
“Sunkiss” my skin
As I lay in the gold,
Of your hot, lazy
Suns grin…

Amidst this field,
Of tall grass shades of green,
An abundance of flowers
Where I lay in between

Raised hand casts a shadow
That shelters my eyes
Here I shall stay
Till seduced,
With moon rise

Will you join me here
To watch stars come to life,
As they dance and they twinkle,
Backdrop stage in the Sky?

Fear not when they shoot
And I silently wish,
For your skin to touch mine,
While my body you lavish

Delicious days turn,
To naughty filled nights
My inhibitions graciously
Fade

Mystical time,
Sumptuous summer
This sensuous season,
You, I’d not trade

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Loves Petals

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 12, 2015
Posted in: life, love, poem, poetry, relationship. Tagged: end of love poem, love lyrics, love poem, love song, poetry, relationship poem, sad poem, watched love fall poem, you neded more poem. 6 Comments

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Opened up my memory box
Half empty filled with air
I know that I could fill it up,
If you were only here

I rummaged through all my dreams,
They all lead back to you
Screaming madness of a lonely day,
What am I gonna do?

How sweet flower, how I watched,
Watched loves petals fall
My heart rained love
To give you rainbows,
But you walked, you needed more

I see now you needed more

Heart’s aging now at the speed of sound,
Dried up from all these tears
Pumping sadness through my veins,
Just thinking of our years

Baby I don’t know what I’ll become,
Will I become enough for you?
Can you turn the page and give a chance,
For us to start something brand new

How sweet flower, how I watched,
Watched loves petals fall
My heart rained love
To give you rainbows,
But you walked, you needed more

I see now you needed more

Image courtesy of: www.mgbuddy.com

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A Moment of Silence

Posted by Heather's Starting End on June 8, 2015
Posted in: buddhism, life, poem, poetry, prayer. Tagged: appreciation poem, awareness poem, blessings, daily prayer, life, love of life, meditation, poem, poetry. 19 Comments

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I breathe in this second
To exhale to the past
This moment I live,
Not my first, not my last

I open my eyes
To see how far I’ve gone
Close them to dream
Of what’s left to come

I look at my fingers,
My blessings I count
They surpass tribulations
By an amazing amount

I go in to my heart
To find that it’s whole,
Despite times of emotional
Overload

I take awe in the day,
How simplistic it is
It’s perfect, its mine
Yes, mine it ‘tis

I speak with my soul,
And not with my mind
“I’m in love with my world”
Are the words that I find

A moment of silence
Realigns my way
This moment of silence,
As my prayer each new day

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Wishes and Dreams, Once More

Posted by Heather's Starting End on May 14, 2015
Posted in: life, love, philosophy, poems, poetry, relationships. Tagged: dreams, life, loneliness, love, new life poem, poems, poetry, relationship poem, sadness, wishing on a star. 21 Comments

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I held a heart that wasn’t mine,
It sang songs, but not for me
Just how crazy had I been
All along hearing,
So incorrectly

I loved you until, my heart bled dry
Till the music,
No longer played
Till the only sound within my head
Was the echoing madness,
Of an empty day

It was you, not the sun
That lit my days
It was you, not the stars
That filled my nights

Now it’s me, all alone
For which no music plays
Now it’s me, all alone
To create my new light

Dear Sadness and Loneliness,
You are just,
Mere vagabonds
Passing through
Despite your efforts
To stay with me,
Welcomed, you’re not,
As this chapter starts new

Because I fear not,
For the sun, It will rise,
Each day as it’s done before
The Milky Way, galaxies,
Stars of the night,
Will be mine for wishes
And dreams once more

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What Makes a Memory and Why?

Posted by Heather's Starting End on May 7, 2015
Posted in: life, memories, philosophy, thoughts, why, writing. Tagged: life, memories, mind, philosophy, ponering, thoughts, why now, wondering. 4 Comments

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Pondering…..

I sit quietly alone on my terrace watching the sun set on the day, as I have done oh so many times before. There is one particular sunset I do recall. Though it was only about 4 years ago, the night was still, the air a pleasant spring time damp. Torches of candle flame stood tall without nary a breeze to fight. This sunset is a memory. I ask myself just when it became so and just why.  What was so different than all of the other nights when most probably, the setting was just the same? I ask myself “Will tonight become a memory and if so, when?”

When does an event cross the line and become embedded in our hearts or mind. Why is a memory thought as one a day later, but forgotten with time? We use the terminology in the present that it will “make a great memory”. Such a fun time, a sad time, an unexpected moment, but does it always make the cut, does it really? No, it doesn’t. We forget it. We can possibly recall it with help, but it is not embedded as a memory free for the taking.

I can recall a time when I was about 4 years old popping tar bubbles on a telephone pole one hot summer day. Why? Was it the sensation of the goo on my fingers that nothing else ever matched? What was it? Why is this afternoon of my life still so vivid? The first Beatle album I ever listened to and just exactly where and how I was sitting on the floor of my neighbor’s bedroom at the tender age of about 6. When my dog got sprayed by a skunk. I am sure that memory and the tomato bath she received that night was perhaps distinctly because of the odor I encountered all but once in my life.

People. I have memories of people whose life crossed mine for not more than 10 heartbeats of my own life. Why them? What subconscious meaning did they give me? Something, for sure. Why do I recall them now? Today?  Why do my friends have vivid memories of times with me and I, myself, have no recollection of that moment?

The mind and the way it files and retains events selectively is astonishing. Are memories to treasure, to learn from, or to keep a mental note on just how fast time flies? A marker for where we were then and where we are now? As a reminder of simpler days, of harder ones, as ones we didn’t even notice or appreciate in their presence (Hence, a dog’s tomato bath). Will this evening 10 years from now be a memory? I doubt it, but I never expected tar popping to be one either.

Memories, What do you think???

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Haiku

Posted by Heather's Starting End on May 7, 2015
Posted in: aging, haiku, life, poems, poetry. Tagged: aging, haiku, life, poem, poetry, time. Leave a comment

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Time begins to tick
I want more road to travel-
Distance till the end

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Dear Birth Mom

Posted by Heather's Starting End on April 28, 2015
Posted in: adoption, Family, life, love, poems, poetry, seperation. Tagged: Adoption, adoption poem, adpotee, birth mother, Family, life, love, pain, poems, poetry, seperation. 5 Comments

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I am sure that I once saw you,
When I came in to this life
I believe I must have looked at you,
When I first opened up my eyes

Your face, I don’t remember
God somehow made it so
That those visions are not memories,
Possible to stow

I believe that our skin once touched,
Though for sure, I’ll never know
If you held me for just moments,
Before forever letting go

My mirror casts, your reflection,
Though I can’t say really where
Is it in my eyes, my frame, or my smile?
Just perhaps my light brown hair

I somehow find it truly sad,
That again we never met
I wish to say I thank you,
Your choice, please don’t regret

You gave me life, though set me free,
Into loving arms
A Mom and Dad with two great brothers
Protected always, from lifes harm

I hope your life has served you well
And that you too, with time have thrived
Maybe once again, I’ll see your face,
In heaven with my eyes

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I Wish

Posted by Heather's Starting End on April 26, 2015
Posted in: life, poems, poetry, society, writing. Tagged: belief, finding yourself, life, love, poem about life, poems, poetry, spice of life, trust your way. 18 Comments

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I wish that I could once meet,
A connoisseur of this life
To tell me that I’m doing well,
That my direction is just right

That this is just nature’s course,
I should now just trust my way
Lose my doubt, keep on track
It will all work out one day

I wish that I could once meet,
A gourmet of this world’s spice
To tell me I add perfect flavor
To each person in my life

That I do not sour minds of others,
I don’t leave a wretched taste
But add a pinch of which they need
To make their lives a sweeter place

I wish that I could once meet,
A master of eternal love
To tell me stay the way I am
Keeping past behind, future above

That I’m good enough, and even more
Someone once will recognize
And forfeit all their prior dreams
To lose themselves, within my eyes

Yes, I wish that I, could just once,
Meet myself the way I am
Be happy with
What I’ve become,
Be okay with where I stand

 

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Wednesdays Wine (Senryu)

Posted by Heather's Starting End on April 1, 2015
Posted in: bar, drinking, life, poems, poetry, society, wine. Tagged: alcohol, bar stories, drinking wine, drown your worries, life, life poem, poems, poetry, red wine, wine. 5 Comments

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Deep Red, rich color

Shade of a liquid delight-

Thoughts have now been drowned

 

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The Dividing Line

Posted by Heather's Starting End on March 31, 2015
Posted in: awareness, life, poems, poetry, writing. Tagged: aging, awareness poem, Buddhism, dawn, inspiration, learn life, life, life poem, live in the now, poems, poetry, sunrise, sunset. 22 Comments

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It’s the time
When the moon,
Gives its way,
To the rising sun

    A brief moment when…
All is still
      And a second when…
All is clear

The dividing line,
Of a past
Not yet to be,
The future

Become caught
In that time
And live life,
As if it is your dawn

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Dark Love, a Trinet Poem

Posted by Heather's Starting End on March 27, 2015
Posted in: life, love, poem, poetry, trinet poem. Tagged: life, love, muddy waters, poems, poetry, seasons change, trinet poem, trinet poetry. 21 Comments

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Muddy waters
Untamed skies
Did you see the seasons change?
Just when did the sunshine leave?
T’was Yesterday
Again tomorrow
Certainly today

Dark Water
Fading skies
An eternity I wait for you
Lifeless love is in my eyes
Fading now
Starting life
Finished lies

Clear waters
Heavens sky
Look just how times flown by
Back to myself I have arrived
Sun bright
Heart open
Again alive

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