Catching Tear-drops

by Baby Rainbow   Feb 27, 2013


Every tear-drop that you cry
travels down your lonely cheek
and lands inside my weeping heart.

I feel your pain and understand your suffering,
with every memory-stained river that falls
from your tired eyes.

Catching your tear-drops,
I trap them inside a bottle
so I can make them float away
with the sea's departing waves.

Then sprinkling magic dust
beneath your pillow
to absorb the endless tears
that you think no one else can see.

But I can see, hear and feel
every tear drop that you cry...

... because they travel down your lonely cheek
and land heavily inside my weeping heart.

Saffie
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22/2/13

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  • 11 years ago

    by Edward Oropeza

    From the beginning until the last stanza, i can see the imagery of a dying old woman/man, where the only thing she can do is to cry and somehow you describe the last moment while assisting a helpless person. and in this line, perhaps i doubted if I were use past or present, since in my last poems i was confused with the same line
    "Catching your tear-drops,
    I trap them inside a bottle
    so I can make them float away
    with the sea's departing waves."
    But then i realized that your sentence is progressing so instead of "trapped", u use "trap". Very nice poems...how i wish when I'm dying too, someone will do the same thing for us...it will heal our burden =)

  • 11 years ago

    by Edward Oropeza

    From the beginning until the last stanza, i can see the imagery of a dying old woman/man, where the only thing she can do is to cry and somehow you describe the last moment while assisting a helpless person. and in this line, perhaps i doubted if I were use past of present, since in my last poems i was confused with the same line
    "Catching your tear-drops,
    I trap them inside a bottle
    so I can make them float away
    with the sea's departing waves."
    But then i realized that your sentence is progressing so instead of "trapped", u use "trap". Very nice poems...how i wish when I'm dying too, someone will do the same thing for us...it will heal our burden =)

  • 11 years ago

    by Darren

    How good is this first stanza? The imagery of the tear drop, almost slow motion in its movement.. then the wow moment as it lands in a weeping heart. This is one of those stanzas that makes you sit back and wish you had thought of it. But this is just the first of six greatly constructed stanzas. Each containing a reference to tears or weeping, synchronizing the whole piece with the title. My favourite part and the reason for the points is the bravery of the repetition, this was a risk that paid off. It is not the longest poem so this could have seemed that the author was over indulging in her fantastic analogy. But no, it is purely a parting shot at those who admire her opening stanza. Awesome.

  • 11 years ago

    by TJ Arizona Eagle

    The wording is excellent, full of imagination bordered in touches of reality.

  • 11 years ago

    by Baby Rainbow

    Thank you xx