Thoughts of Heaven and Other Things

Who promised you life would be easy?
Who whispered this excuse?
How can pain be an addition to the life experience?
Answers provided are inadequate to the task.
Who will sit with you and hold you in the unknown?

In the silence of the morning,
I listen for the sound of your heartbeat.
I reach for you and trace the line of your face.
I smell the fragrance of your skin.
I envy the sun as it kisses the small of your back.
I rest in the music of your breath, your slow awakening!

How long have you felt this way?
Why have you not come to me?
I am here, I am within you and without.
Loneliness and fear need not compel.
For you are lifted on whispers of thought!

I wish to be justified
"You are justified from the foundations of the Earth,
to the moment of the quiet walk.
Listen to the wind carry your name.
Feel the music fill your innermost being.
As the song builds to the innermost surprise!"

What is Heaven?
Is it the peace that resides between heart beats?
Is the smallness of it large enough to contain God's Essence?
When does it begin?
Why is it so hard to start?

The small white dog trembles,
as the river runs wild!
Flys dance above the water.
"Go" I say releasing you into the water.
Feeling the depth of love,
as it covers the surface of you.


A compilation poem written by Norm Millross, Lesley-Anne Evans and Richard Lamoureux.
This was six separate pieces organized into one piece. We each alternated line by line.
Norm and Lesley-Anne are fellow poets here In Kelowna British Columbia.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015



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Date: 12/3/2015 10:44:00 AM
Excellent collaboration please pass on my congratulations to your fellow poets. A Fav!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/3/2015 10:51:00 AM
Thanks Armand. The mixing of minds so to speak.
Date: 12/3/2015 9:00:00 AM
scribes with such grace and eloquence , rich... a most worthy collab!..huggs
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/3/2015 9:45:00 AM
Thanks Nette, it was an interesting excercise.
Date: 12/2/2015 9:07:00 PM
Hello Richard....wow...a edge of your seat thriller...great job to you all...I loved the last stanza very much...
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 11:13:00 PM
Thanks Donna, I'm pleased you like it.
Date: 12/2/2015 5:59:00 PM
"For you are lifted on whispers of thought.." I'm just in awe of this whole poem, starting with the collaboration... uplifting message, phrases, all of it. Beautiful!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 11:14:00 PM
Thanks Susan.;0)
Date: 12/2/2015 5:25:00 PM
Excellent collaboration, all are genius. Beautifully crafted. Loved always my lovely friend,bl
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 11:14:00 PM
Thanks for your kind words BL.
Date: 12/2/2015 1:01:00 PM
- No one knows how the "Heaven" are ........ but, I hope and believe it's peaceful and beautiful :) - A wonderful poem! - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 11:16:00 PM
Hugs and thanks Anne-Lise.
Date: 12/2/2015 9:33:00 AM
That's some collaboration...The line by line alternation is interesting. Then, perhaps you can give me more insight into that last stanza. Read it twice through and still some of it confuses me a bit. Perhaps it's just me. BTW...I have a blog up. You told me to let you know when I do. Hugs
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 9:37:00 AM
For me the last stanza is a baptism. I'm on my way to your blog.;0).
Date: 12/2/2015 9:21:00 AM
Enjoyed reading :) I do hope Heaven is a place I will always want to be. Eve
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 12/2/2015 9:24:00 AM
I have no doubt it will be, otherwise it could not be heaven.
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