Nordic cloud

Apr 22, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Birthday Present March 1997

All the little stones

In the woods

Are jewels packed in

Snow pressed grasses, tightly,

So as to keep their shapes

For your birthday.

Leaves are also wrapped round branches

On the red stemmed cornus plants

Packing flowers that will bloom

For your next year and make it a year

You enjoy.

The stones are all precious

The stones are all presents

The stones have memories

The stones have different colours

The stones are what we like

The stones are packed specially for you,

I ordered them so

In Autumn as the grasses changed colour

And position.

Each one has a story to tell

About its life

And about how many times it has seen

Or felt you pass by.

They are your friends

They are always there for you

They love you.

That is what life is about

Nothing else is important

Just the stones

I give you for your birthday

With my love

In the song they sing as they exist.

— Nordic cloud, Apr 22, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Oslo and Flatdal, Norway., NOR

Favorite Poets: Too daunting this.

Critiques

meic

17 years 1 month ago

Pebbles … messengers?

Pebbles ... messengers? symbols of remembrance? I remain unsure, but intrigued nevertheless: Remembering you my heart is a pebble skimmed over water. What is certain is that these offerings, so meticulously prepared and presented are of importance to you - and so beautifully here displayed. Lovely poem. Mike "not all matterings of mind equal one violet" ~ e e cummings ~

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Hey my darling Ann, I love this poem so much... can I borrow it?

Hey my darling Ann, I love this poem so much... can I borrow it? (it's my birthday soon too .. Beltane baby!)... Oooh I love your writing xxx Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

Nordic cloud

17 years 1 month ago

Bien sur Anni Dear you

Of course you can borrow it, although it was written to E. in the first place and technically could be called his poem, but he is not so interested in poetry, he likes the haïku type poems best. Are you going to sing it? Do send me your Youtube address again as Now I can listen on my own, through earphones, old fogey learning late!!! Just back from a 3 hr. walk at speed and wrote a poem as I went towards the end of it, perhaps I should post it, its only a little verse as Pooh Bear would say, but it just wanted to come, so I scribbled it onto a piece of folded paper and wobbled it through the woods. Sun and we sat drinking our Sencha on the top of a hillock among the moose-clipped bushes like two birds in a nest. Snow patches, ice and mud in between the pine needled soft paths, its so beautifully wild here,( Only 20 mins from Oslo's centre) and even on a Sunday with a few people out walking- mostly on the wide tracks- we walk alone, padding along in the birdsong-filled forests. The song- thrush had verses of 18 variations!!!! Occasionally bursting through such liquid notes that would have impressed the Blackbird or the magical Nightingale. My favourite is still the bubbelingly happy little Robin redbreast., he's only defending his territory. Love to you dear Anni from Ann of Norway

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

thank you for sharing your lovely birthday gift poem with me I s

Lovely, lovely Ann, How I love the things you writem the things you do, the way you dance with life... we MUST be kindred... I want to be, I want to be connected with you... you know that saying "the spirit is strong within you"? I don't know where it is from , but YOU Ann have one of the strongest most wonderfully bursting spirits I know, I hope this is said about me one day... Yes post the small verse you shared the sun & the walk & the tea with I will love it all the more for knowing of it's history!!!! My music (it is just a small portion & does not show some of my other collaborations, my a'capella group or my choir) is on MySpace music www.myspace.com/annicoyneclouds - not Youtube, have not gotten around to that yet, slack & more interested in this place & it's wonderful people! Dear one, thank you for sharing your lovely birthday gift poem with me I shall cheers you on Friday & Saturday & Sunday as I catch up with other precious beloved friends, I kind of wish you could be here to join us Ann, you sould love them all & they you I am sure! Was it E's birthday recently? Is he also a taurus lad?, when is your birthday my sweet Ann? Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

Nordic cloud

17 years 1 month ago

Yes, but his was Pisces

Mine is Cancer.I will tell you in a letter as I don't want to disturb the poems. My father's was in April and my mothers in August. You say so many lovely things about my-me-mine- I don't know how to respond. You write so many fine lovely poems wandering through the mind, the soul(?) the spirit that I love, and cannot find words to praise enough, I am speechless with admiration for your poetry you are just poetry in music, the music of your words sending sounds through the mind even when there is no audible music to hear. And if it is your birthday I wish you a spliffing time with your good friends and a special hug for being so, so , so special a poet and good friend to me too. Love from Ann of Norway.