Heart Song

When the heart overflows its pain

healing  begins as a prayer,

like the bird freed from its cage

able to chirp a sweet love song

Reviews

[Fernando Pessoa]

I really do love this sense of lifting music to make the heart soar above its pain.. its suffering cries. There is always hope to be found if we let it flow. Thank you for this.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~ Jean Giraudoux

[rhythm&blues]

Excellent quote, thank you Paul.

[Einstein Noodle]

we sometimes want to hide ourselves away form pain and other feelings and situations that are disquieting; but we can't ... accepting and allowing emotional pain to flow is truly the beginning .. your poem inspires me to think about it a bit and i think you are right about the prayer ... at that moment it is almost automatic isn't it?! i like the brevity (seems to be your style) and the meditative quality to it ... its the way you put the words together ... almost like a senryu as it is about humans vs. nature ;) hope all is well with you ... it has been a while since you have been around
E.

[quinfinn]

the heart is the toughest muscle in the human body...too bad it is where we center our emotions.....i sense there is another center to our feelings....a more fragile and complicated one....the brain? oh, hell no! unless we are all just brainless......well penned!

[rhythm&blues]

I think the heart usually speaks louder in cases such as these, thank you for reading quinfinn.

[Emily B]

amen

[rhythm&blues]

Thank you Emily.

[Leslie Philibert]

nice short poem, has almost a haiku like effect, without following the standard form.
Good writing !

[rhythm&blues]

Thank you Leslie, appreciate you reading me.

[Ency Bearis]

wonderful notion well written

[rhythm&blues]

Thank you Ency.

[Baby Ricochet]

I like this one. Kind of like a moment of Zen American style

[Kristin Lee]

True words can be so effective and stir such positive emotion. Your right, the first thing we do when hurt is absolute is pray. Beautiful analogy and connections.

[Rita L. Sev]

This short piece has a hopeful feel, the knowledge that healing comes. I like the idea of "healing beginning as a prayer". Sometimes that is all we need to feel that we have indeed begun to heal. Good job.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

When the heart is pained, healing begins as a prayer...I love this idea. It is so true; in the darkest of hours, hope begins as the flicker of a candle and then as we get farther it becomes as bright as the sunlight. well done.