Broken Arrow

40 thoughts on “Broken Arrow”

1. Lovely …
   Visiting from Carry On Tuesday

2. Sorry for my late comment. Your poem of survival and the rebirth of hope and desire is wonderful in the way it affirms life, even after disappointment and pain.

3. I like the upbeat message and tempo. Very excellente.

4. Thanks so much for mentioning Carry On Tuesday. I’ve been snowed under with messages asking me to keep it going – I had no idea how liked it had become. It could well survive after all!

5. This was wonderful, it’s always best after looking with in to look at the world from the inside as a part of it. well said here.

6. “Sometimes so elusive
   answers arrive
   in tingles which wake the
   softness in my soul to
   search for more new wonders.” – love this! 😀

7. “A solitary rock’s feel
   fills my need for touch
   Connecting through warm
   vibration.” So many beautiful lines, a beautiful poem…this line really captured my heart…I can imagine holding the rock in one’s hand, like the warm heart of the earth, feeling connected to all life on this planet.

8. beautiful ending to a well written poem 🙂

9. This can be read in so many ways, which is to say so much can be extracted from it. It’s light, yet dense, it has more than a touch of the mystical, yet down to earth. Fab’!

10. Lovely … I can relate … somewhat … I feel gladness … even if I’m just touching a sun warmed rock … anything for a small piece of gladness. Thanks, ma sista … Love, cat.

11. Answers arrive in tingles… Love that.Nice piece weighted with burden but then also some sense of release which prevents it from getting too heavy on the heart.Nice.

12. The answers that arrive with tingles are the best kind of answers.

13. “Finally it makes some sense.” That gives me hope. I’ve got to go find myself a rock like that. Nice one.

14. Your poetry revivifies like those answers arriving.

15. So many broken arrows in life, usually unexpected. Inspiring poem.

16. love the contrast of hard and soft in the photo, and in your words.

17. “Sometimes so elusive / answers arrive / in tingles which wake the / softness in my soul to / search for more new wonders.”

    I absolutely love that.

18. Sometimes so elusive
    answers arrive
    in tingles which wake the
    softness in my soul to
    search for more new wonders.

    This stanza really speaks to me, Bren, such a well written piece. It so nice to read of people growing outside their boundaries. Beautiful!

19. Ooh, I like this: “answers arrive in tingles”

20. Great poem! I especially like the last line. It’s good to be involved with life and not just an observer.

21. Very soothing and lovely write ~

22. Wonderful poem. Great sense of renewal. K.

23. Life may not be very good at taking back its arrows, but those scars help remind us of lessons learned. Beautiful!

24. Bren, this is beautiful. Thank you for your sweet comment 🙂

25. Very nice! I’ll go see Keith right now, and see if I can join in.

26. So nicely expressed, love it 🙂

27. solitary rock fills my need to touch -> that’s an interesting line!!

28. Very nicely written and acknowledged! Going over for the challenges too!
    Hope you visit me too!
    🙂
    cheers!

29. I truly love that last stanza, Bren.

    Pamela

30. I really like how you started this piece. and I love hose tingles which wake the softness in my soul.

31. “New leaves on the bough
    offer sweet, sweet breath
    to nullify the physical aches
    it’s never time to say goodbye
    and I am no longer
    a stranger on the shores
    on the outside of life
    looking in.” love that so much

32. trusting life to take back
    its broken arrows once again…
    love that line, so hard to do, and yet we find a way, again and again…

33. very nice, love the ‘feel’ of the 3rd stanza

34. Something about taking control of life here, like pulling out those broken arrows and casting them to one side- it speaks of difficult times overcome- nicely summed up in the lines about ‘no longer being on the outside looking in- no longer a stranger – this isn’t positive par se in that it’s hopping and skipping, but rather survival through endurance. Loving your work more and more

35. This is lovely! I really enjoyed this one.

36. Absolutely beautiful. I especially love the closing lines……..no longer a stranger on the shore on the outside looking in. I remember those years of being outside looking in, and love not being there any more. Your poem resonates so much with me.

37. there’s much hope in this…finding the way back into life, trusting again…i like..

38. i like the touch of the rock being the answer to the need to touch…and sometiems it takes a while for the answers…and sometimes it takes a bit for us to be ready for them as well…

39. Those arrows can hurt but one has to yank them out and you never know what might show or when, but it usually does.

40. It is nice when those elusive answers finally DO arrive. Often they arrive at the most surprising times! I enjoyed your write.

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