Adenium Obesum ('Desert Rose')

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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2007-05-23 11:55 PM

                    Desert Rose

I had always thought...
that on some grand-lucent night
of impetuous starlight and articulate dreams,
by serendipitous flashes of informed curiosity
  or cosmic revelation,
I would distill the universe
to find subtle ‘truths’ and final ‘answers’
for all the raging hopelessness;
yet, they have simply vanished...
(like shimmering echoes and incense
chasing ‘blue-moon’ spirits past
  a quintessential sunset)
just one step beyond my mind.
My life is but a mystic poem...
(lost in the perfect rhythm of silence
  or the blinding beauty of a ‘desert rose’)
and an infinite entanglement of questions!

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (05-24-2007 12:10 AM).]

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-05-24 02:19 AM

it is a poem of great curiosity, quite professional. Another very beautiful poem and your photo is good too.

enjoyed

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2007-05-24 07:29 AM

Wow, not only do you touch the readers heart with understanding the why's and how's but you fill us up with imagry through some very outstanding words, all clustered together like they belonged...

Wow!

Love this

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2007-05-24 07:55 AM

[the 'desert rose' is, of course, a beautiful
  flower...but to a geologist, it is also a
  remarkable crystal, a rosette formation of
   the minerals gypsum and barite!]

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

4 posted 2007-05-24 10:31 AM

BRAVO!!!

(How's that for a 'minimalist' response?)

Midnitesun

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Gaia

5 posted 2007-05-27 10:35 PM

bumping

ArtSolstice
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since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

6 posted 2007-05-30 09:04 PM

Re-reading this poem again after reading it a number of times before, I was surprised to see I had not posted a comment on it for you, Bruce. It is so lovely and true.

Lines that call to me include:

" ...vanished...
(like shimmering echoes and incense
chasing ‘blue-moon’ spirits past
a quintessential sunset)
just one step beyond my mind.
My life is but a mystic poem...
(lost in the perfect rhythm of silence
or the blinding beauty of a ‘desert rose’)
and an infinite entanglement of questions!"

Thank you for posting this.

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

7 posted 2007-05-31 10:54 AM

Yes, a true rose has hiden, inner beauty, that the naked eye cannot see, but can only be seen with a pure heart!

~ARH

J. M. Barrie, the playwright, may have said it best when he wrote, “God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.”

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

8 posted 2007-05-31 01:51 PM

I have enjoyed reading your words, Shall try
to read some more while I have a chance~

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

9 posted 2007-05-31 11:24 PM

can't pick a favorite line here poet
the whole thing is incredible

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