They sit atop the dresser
on the veil that she used
to cover her head with on Sundays
still and curled
like a cat napping on a carpet
she's been gone twelve years now
but I can no longer bring myself to move them
in fact, I only held them in my hands
once
and that was after her first birthday had passed
after she had past
passed from past
its quaintness fails
to move me
black as habit
oily from the daily supplication
her finger strembling like her eyelid strembling like her lip strembling
to pray for those less fortunate than her
she would kneel and clutch the beads
as if they were the lifeline
to eternity
but to eternity she's gone
and only the beads remain.
2007-09-21 17:56:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
The person misses the one to whom the beads belonged to. She was a good person and did right by everyone she met and prayed a lot for their well being. All he has now to hold is her prayer beads and wishes that he had HER instead.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-09-21 18:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont think I quites understand it. It seems to be talking about a nun and her rosary beads, but I dont get the first birthday thing. I think the poem in about how someone spent their entire life dedicated to soemone else,in this case god, only yo leave behind a stand of beads.
2007-09-22 01:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by EXPECTING 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The beads are seemingly just an ordinary item, but they meant so much to this person that he really cared about. Thus, making such an ordinary item have a tremendous amount of value in his life since she is gone.
2007-09-22 01:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by Kmmv 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what is it that is 'still and curled / like a cat napping on a carpet'?
i don't understand how beads can be 'curled', but then i don't understand how a 'veil' a 'dresser' or 'sundays' can be 'curled' either.
does mr. gleasor mean her head was 'curled'?
....
(and is a head 'curled' in the same way as a 'cat napping on a carpet' is)?
2007-09-22 09:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by synopsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me it is about someone that someone else really cared about and who has not or can not come to terms with that persons death. They have never moved on and live in the past.
2007-09-22 01:02:25 · answer #5 · answered by debbie f 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WTF
2007-09-22 01:02:47 · answer #6 · answered by Larry M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋