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Open Poetry #41

The Backstairs of Time

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-01-24 12:24 PM

  The Backstairs
     Of Time

immeasurable longing,
inexhaustible hope,
innumerable words,
all leading to infinite
  uncertainty

we are…

motes of dust
craving action
in stillness

moorless boats
seeking stasis
in the Winter
  wind

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-01-24 12:56 PM

And though the light is flickering,
we are the light that shines in the endlss
night. Sometimes its hard to light the way when you're not sure where you're going.
Ida

TomMark
Member Elite

since 2007-07-27

Posts 2133
LA,CA

2 posted 2008-01-24 03:01 PM

moorless boats
seeking stasis
in the Winter
  wind
Took all my words away.

Beautiful poem. I love the title. I have never seen a well decorated, luxurious backstairs.
So the backstairs of Time I doubt at all, are all good memories.  If they were bad, and bad again, if one would step on, one could tumble down into the dark.

How does Memory tricks us to paste our past steps into our future guidance?
another "incurable Romanticism"

love your poem.
Tomtoo

[This message has been edited by TomMark (01-24-2008 08:02 PM).]

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

3 posted 2008-01-31 06:44 PM

Lovely Words

ARCTIC WIND

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