Freefalling
Sometimes you remember something
That you don’t want to remember.
I realized that I missed the Leonids last night.
Can I make up for it somehow?
If I spend the night in the cold big yard
Looking up
Will I still see stars fall?
Can I still make wishes?
Can they still come true?
Do they ever
Come true?
I don’t know.
I don’t know why
Atmospheric events could ever impact
The realization of dreams.
I did not wish on Hawaiian sunsets.
I did not wish on the pink clouds I saw
out my bedroom window this morning.
I did not wish on the first snowflakes
outside my cottage
or the drops of rain
from the biblical deluge in Fajardo.
Maybe I should have though.
I am remembering
too many wishes.
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November 20, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Jingle
I assume this is your own work….
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November 20, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Seasweetie
Thanks, I will!
November 20, 2010 at 4:38 pm
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November 20, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Monica Garcia Saenz
I enjoyed this! thank you!
November 20, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Seasweetie
Thank you, Monica. Your entry this week was lovely as well.
November 20, 2010 at 8:40 pm
mairmusic
An interesting pondering– nicely done!
November 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Seasweetie
Thank you, mairmusic!
November 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm
ScottlB
Very nicely done and I WISH you well
November 20, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Seasweetie
Thank you, and thanks for visiting!
November 20, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Kellie Elmore
oh my, your style is beautiful. love this! u should place this in my wish jar! 😉
November 21, 2010 at 1:22 am
Seasweetie
I like the idea of a wish jar, Kellie. Thanks for visiting!
November 20, 2010 at 11:00 pm
liv2write2day
This is a wonderful “questioning” poem. We never know what would have been had we done…. or not done…
I will enjoy browsing your blog.
Victoria
November 20, 2010 at 11:45 pm
~Drew
I love it… delving into arbitrary wishing upon astrological events… why not wish upon the 1st dog barking, horn honking, or Cadillac we see. Wishes are prayers; Prayers are wishes. We are sending out thoughts to something greater than ourselves, and hoping it comes true! =)
http://ukeepwalkingforward.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/see-me/
November 21, 2010 at 1:20 am
Seasweetie
Or wish upon the frantic yipping of the coyotes such as I hear outside my bedroom window right now. Thank you for visitng, Drew.
November 21, 2010 at 3:43 am
RiikaInfinityy 마왕
oooo wishes~ we do have a lot and ponder 😛
November 21, 2010 at 8:43 am
Seasweetie
Indeed we do! Thanks for visiting!
November 21, 2010 at 6:24 am
Leo (Leonnyes)
maybe all that is happening now could be an unwished wish, or even something that we’d wished for long long back and forgotten coz it didn’t happen as soon as we wanted it do?
nice words, Seasweetie.
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November 21, 2010 at 8:41 am
Seasweetie
Thanks!
November 21, 2010 at 8:42 am
Seasweetie
There may indeed be some truth to your words, Leo. Thanks for visiting.
November 21, 2010 at 6:34 am
Jamie Dedes, all rights reserved
Wastfull wishing on wonted here! Nicely wrought poem. Good point.
Poem on, Seasweetie!
November 21, 2010 at 10:26 am
pamela
seasweetie,
This is beautiful. I love the night sky.
Pamela
November 21, 2010 at 10:44 am
Seasweetie
Thank you, Pamela – so glad you came by!
November 21, 2010 at 11:07 am
siubhan
there is such a wistfulness in this, and especially in its ending, that i found it very touching. well written.
November 21, 2010 at 11:15 am
Seasweetie
Thank you, siubhan. I really love your work.
November 21, 2010 at 3:26 pm
heartspell
Nice thoughts on wishes and how we think of them.
November 21, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Seasweetie
Thankks, and thanks for visiting!
November 21, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Shawn Bird
It is always a good time for a wish. Speaking aloud (or writing) dreams and wishes can make them real.
thanks for popping by my blog this week and including this link to your site! Here’s the latest poetical offering- a tanka for the season:
http://shawnbird.com/2010/11/21/winter-evening-tanka/
November 21, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Seasweetie
Thanks, Shawn Bird!
November 21, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Lu Ann
I think they come true!! Loved this poem 🙂
November 21, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Seasweetie
Thank you for visiting! I really hope they come true!
November 22, 2010 at 4:03 pm
belladonna23
great paradoxical meaning….thanks for sharing 🙂 hope you are well
November 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Seasweetie
Thanks, belladonna23! I am….fair.
November 22, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Leigh-Anne Fraser
very nice… I love the last line. always remembering the wishes.
November 22, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Seasweetie
Thanks for visiting, Leigh-Anne.
November 23, 2010 at 2:58 am
Rashmi
Beautiful poem…Let all of them come true…
November 23, 2010 at 9:13 am
Seasweetie
Yes – thank you for visiting!
November 23, 2010 at 6:13 pm
LoLa
Never stop wishing!
November 23, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Seasweetie
Never! Thanks for visiting, LoLa!
November 23, 2010 at 8:43 pm
sagerider
My father used to say ” wish in one hand, shit in the other and see which gets filled first”. He died alone and broke, broke in every sense of the word. Wishes take into our core, the furnace of the place where imagination meets the cosmos and who knows,….wish, believe,and live as if it has already come true
November 23, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Seasweetie
I’m good at believing it has already come true, sage.
November 23, 2010 at 8:46 pm
sagerider
“take us”…i’m horrible at the whole proof reading thing
November 23, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Suzanne Wells
Buyers remorse – in reverse! We see ourselves AND you gave us the space for a wish – in this breath! I enjoyed it immensely and gratitude grew for YOU! as it gestated – for being so giving.
November 23, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Seasweetie
What a lovely comment – thank you!
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December 3, 2010 at 7:01 pm
hoiden
Anytime is a good time for a wish…n dont we all follow that…beautiful poem:)
December 4, 2010 at 8:38 am
Seasweetie
Thank you – and I agrre that anytime is a good time for a wish!