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Topic: (Of course it hurts)
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Dynamic_Stillness
Knowflake Posts: 167
From: London
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted July 13, 2005 06:19 PM
 
Here's a poem that was given to me recently, by my girlfriend who is from Sweden.It's an old Swedish poem written in 1935 but this is the English translation.
It's so beautiful and I wanted to share it with you all...
Of course it hurts when buds burst.
Otherwise why would spring hesitate?
Why would all our fervent longing
be bound in the frozen bitter haze?
The bud was the casing all winter.
What is this new thing, which consumes and bursts?
Of course it hurts when buds burst,
pain for that which grows
and for that which envelops. Of course it is hard when drops fall.
Trembling with fear they hang heavy,
clammer on the branch, swell and slide -
the weight pulls them down, how they cling.
Hard to be uncertain, afraid and divided,
hard to feel the deep pulling and calling,
yet sit there and just quiver -
hard to want to stay
and to want to fall.
Then, at the point of agony and when all is beyond
help,
the tree's buds burst as if in jubilation,
then, when fear no longer exists,
the branch's drops tumble in a shimmer,
forgetting that they were afr
aid of the new,
forgetting that they were fearful of the journey -
feeling for a second their greatest security,
resting in the trust that creates the world.
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sweetlibra
Knowflake Posts: 515
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Registered: Oct 2004
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posted July 14, 2005 04:49 AM
Wow..
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Bluemoon
Knowflake Posts: 1358
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted July 14, 2005 08:48 AM
Aksash has a Girlfriend!!:smile:Lovely poem!!! Much love to you!
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Dynamic_Stillness
Knowflake Posts: 167
From: London
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted July 14, 2005 05:17 PM
Bluemoon...much Love to you...Eternally.... Akash. IP: Logged |
sugarlightning
Knowflake Posts: 49
From: Ontario
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted July 15, 2005 01:15 PM
That is absolutely beautiful and carries a teaching within itself!IP: Logged |
Dynamic_Stillness
Knowflake Posts: 167
From: London
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted July 15, 2005 03:43 PM
Sugarlightning...Love that! D.S IP: Logged |
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