Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.117.246.69
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said: Speak to us of children And he said: Oh multitudes of children Sensually sensitive (1) O piece of my liver - my dewy hair, My day - my tomorrow, The sweetness of knots. “Your children are not your children “ They’re sons & daughters of life longing itself “ (2) We cry out from the pain of their arrival, Mourn - if they’re lost to the clouds of the world, Still, leave traces - fragments of broken memories. “They come through you, but not from you” “And though they’re with you - yet they belong not to you” (3) We play with them like playful birds, Over hillocks in bright fields, Yet the light of excitement will shine in their blood. “You many give them love, but not your thoughts” “For they have their thoughts” (4) In the orchard of our contentment, We make them have fun - feel here, Have their bodies wander with enlightening hope. “You may house their bodies but not their souls” “For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow” (5) The world other than the bitter world Far from darkness & yard Where there’s no violence, sorrow & tears & graves covered in secret. “Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams” (6) Children play is not our game, The determination is like iron, It captivates our soul - but not the spring of old age. “You may strive to be like them” “But seek not to make them be like you” (7) We want to go back - live in the childhood, With beauty - pleasure, Innocent - highness, going back will not be considered striving “For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday” (8) We give them the palm of living, They give us their hearts, Perhaps, there is a thousand meaning behind it. “You’re the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth” (9) We see them as colorful arrows - They see us as a matchbox (Archer), Travel pass our forearms - Leave us juicy inscriptions, From the will of the divine spirit. “The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far” (10) Let be to them, An Angel, Brush their path with jasmine - make them smell like fragrances, For HE loves arrows that does not know the meaning of sins. “Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness” “For even as He love the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required