faerybeki

Sep 05, 2009 ⭐ See this poem's read count — a supporter feature

The Shape of Things to Come

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— faerybeki, Sep 05, 2009

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Wafi

16 years 10 months ago

And Lo! Sweet Beki

And Lo! Sweet Beki, you have just made it like a ship, to travel in the sea of time? I can see the shape is like a ship and then I also see it is somewhat like a smile as well(were you trying to make it look like a smile?) Wonderful and Afarin Beki. See life is smiling to me in your poem, just like your sweet smile in your profile pic! Loved it. Sincerely, Wafi "Culture, location and beliefs; All vanish with love!" ~Afzal Shauq~

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Manena Wafi, I was trying to

Manena Wafi, I was trying to make it look like a smile, yes. I still think it could be more curved but haven't had any more time to play with it! So happy you enjoyed the poem Wafi and it smiled at you ;) I do like that you saw a ship here too, 'to travel in the sea of time', just lovely, your comments always give me reason to smile Wafi, manena again! and much love Beki xxx

Ink Dragon

16 years 10 months ago

Beki,

I think the shape is perfect as it is. It reminded me of a smile, too, like Wafi says above. Something like: welcome each new day with a smile, or: keep up that smile (pokerface style) even if life has dealt you crap cards? So many possible interpretations... Much love, Ms Awesome, ~Nina

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Hello lovely, so happy the

Hello lovely, so happy the shape worked for you :) I'm still not sure I'm happy with it, but that so many saw the smile here, reassures me immensely, I had considered turning it on it's side :) but not so sure I need to now! Thank you Ms Awesome Too ;) much love Beki xxx

Seren

16 years 10 months ago

Dear Beki

Smile and the world smiles with you, beautiful work I like Nina wouldnt change a thing , I needed a smile today thanks :) love and hugz Jayne x x x "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall" ...

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Dear Jayne, makes it all

Dear Jayne, makes it all worthwhile babe to know it gave you a smile :) so happy you enjoyed, perhaps it doesn't need as much work as I initially thought :) Hoping you're still smiling ;) much love and hugs Beki xxx

Bert Lamrick

16 years 10 months ago

The world

smiles with you, Beki. Love always, ~Rick

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

I do hope so Rick, I do hope

I do hope so Rick, I do hope so :) much love, always, Beki xxx

orgami

16 years 10 months ago

I am reminded of a skateboard bowl

an old Tom Petty Video where a young woman is skateboarding up and down the half-pipe? think thats what its called and yes a smile I woke up alive so it was a good day! sat at the lake on my bench my new lair and let my tension ease like the ripples flashing like a blade nicked by battles oh how the fight died slow and the lady of the lake settled all airs This Poem made me smile thank you Beki!

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

So glad it gave you a smile

So glad it gave you a smile Steven, your new lair sounds delicious, my love to you and the lady of the lake ;) I'm reminded of that song, 'Heaven is a half-pipe', Lol so you made me smile too, contagious smiling, how utterly wonderful! Thank You Steven! Much love Beki xxx

mantiscepter

16 years 10 months ago

Shapes

Open thoughts: Open minds 0 0 o o 0 0 0 o o o o 0 o 0 0 o 0 o o

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

:) more smiles Mantiscepter.

:) more smiles Mantiscepter. Open thoughts, open minds indeed! If thought is the origin of everything, then happy thoughts create a happy world perhaps ;) much love Beki xoxoxo

lyz

16 years 10 months ago

Nice one

How intuitive, clever and I liked it. Lyz XX

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Hi Lyz, so happy you liked

Hi Lyz, so happy you liked it. Your use of 'intuitive' is interesting, as these shape poems (I've done a few now, so enjoyable) do come to me so completely, words, shape and all! Much love and more thanks Beki xxx

Seren

16 years 10 months ago

Congratulations on spotlight

Congratulations on spotlight Beki ... SMILE huni :) love you Jayne x x x

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Spotlight!!! No way! for

Spotlight!!! No way! for this little piece? How strange, it's always the ones you least expect lol. I'm smiling hon :) hope you are too, more love Beki xxx

Wafi

16 years 10 months ago

:)))))

Congrats Beki. The spotlight is smiling too :) Sincerely, Wafi "Culture, location and beliefs; All vanish with love!" ~Afzal Shauq~

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

:)))) Manena Wafi, so happy

:)))) Manena Wafi, so happy to have shared the smiles with you, more love Beki xxx

Nordic cloud

16 years 10 months ago

“Take the Sunny Side”

"Take the Sunny Side" Granny Young- my mormor-mother's mother. Lets’ oftener talk of noble deeds And rarer of the bad ones, And sing about our happy days And not about the sad ones. We are not made to fret and sigh, And when grief sleeps, to wake it, Bright happiness is standing by This life is what we make it. Lets’ find the sunny side of men. Or be believer in it A light there is in every soul That takes the pains to win it, Oh; there is slumbering good in all, And we perchance may wake it. Our hands contain the magic wand, This life is what we make it. Then here’s to those whose loving hearts Shed light and joy about them Thanks to them for countless gems We ne’er had known without them: Oh; this should be a happy world, To all who may partake it. The fault’s our own if it is not This life is what we make it. I just had to write this in again my dearest grandmother Young who was a spreader of happiness and made us tea cakes to die for, "Come awae in fer yer tea" she would call to us in her Edinburgh Scottish dialect, we adored her. Baeki you're smiling and that makes us all happy too. Love from Ann of Scotland the brave!!

Wafi

16 years 10 months ago

“Take the Sunny Side”

Beautiful poem, sweet Ann of Norway! I like your smile too, in this smiling poem of Beki... Sincerely, Wafi "Culture, location and beliefs; All vanish with love!" ~Afzal Shauq~

faerybeki

16 years 10 months ago

Oh dear Ann, the brave, of

Oh dear Ann, the brave, of Scotland ;) how simply marvelous of you to share this poem of your grandmothers, it's beautiful, I agree with every word! It's one I'd like to have up somewhere so as I could read it, often! :) Really can't thank you enough Ann for turning my smile into a lasting beam!! :) much love, beamish Beki xxx

Nordic cloud

16 years 10 months ago

Glad you liked it and keep beaming

She, my grandmother wrote a wondeful tribute to Queen Victoria when she died, and my Aunt Gloria one to Queen Mary, I think. I MUST get on with the poetry book of my families poems, suddenly got intoxicated by making my own!! I will send the other one by my grandmother perhaps, if I can find it easily!!! She was a most lovely person, like my own mother Maisie, who also wrote many poems. Glad you liked it and keep beaming, the modern word beaming meaning communicating with each other, a nice thought, just as we do here. Love Ann

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