Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:45 p.m. pdt

poetry by Michael F. Nyiri

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"That Certain Feeling Returns" Hello heartache, we've been here before, a - while now. We've been looking for answers, detaining our sanity, ruling out ridicule, Biding time with vanity. Searching, souls surmising that the way is out of reach, Looking in the mirror for the target of desire, Fooling all our feelings for a taste of love's warm fire. Poetry proclaims, as it has done for years and years, that simple supple friendly words will prove a tonic richly shears The petty thoughts which tell us nothing new will every be again, And heartache, gentle muse, I know we've passed this way before. And will pass this way again. And yet again. I hear the calling of the feeling, that certain feeling from the past, A few kind words, from around the world, and I'm in a holding zone. What feelings conjure up the very object of desire? A knowing nagging understanding that I am not alone. I hear humanity crying out for a will that will be forever done. I said I've never felt that certain feeling, that feeling of true love, Rhyming and writing and reading , rereading and what's the world made of? Saying that I'm happy, yet searching yet searching yet again, And the words get all jumbled up, and the phone's off the hook in pain. Yet this time, like the last time, I feel that certain feeling, yeilding, growing, firm And I feel again like I have the world to gain...... Dearest muse, you've heard me cry from the depths of heartache, rise Hello heartache did you think I'd give my answer to the skies? Do the clouds have pictures, and is the painting showing bliss? And is the answer there in words, and am I truly feeling this? This certain feeling, yes, that certain feeling that I never felt before, Even as love knocks, her gentle fingers at the door. Heavenly portent, send with intent, all thy works and fully breathe.... And here I am, on bended knees, will I feel love, heartache tell me please... This is another poem, guaranteed to wither away yet grow, And I am knowing that this feeling which has yet in life to show, Is enlarging me and fulfilling me, even as I write these words, And someday that certain feeling I will know.....

 

2001

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