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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2008-03-07 10:01 PM


        Life and Wildness

Beyond these grand darkling hills,
as scarlet clouds skim the candent,
water edged horizon,
in a fine winter sunset’s
translucent-ripple afterglow,
twilight sings to a limpid
   moon rising
over the sweet-serene, refreshing
   freedom of this wilderness,
in whose presence we are
most truly humbled…and ‘alive!’

     ---b. e. adams (3/7/08)

© Copyright 2008 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
LadyTom
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since 2008-02-29
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1 posted 2008-03-07 10:04 PM


Perfect!!!! My evening wine!!!

Robert E. Jordan
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2 posted 2008-03-07 10:24 PM


Secondhanddreampoet,

Nice one.  Wilderness is not wildness.  There used to be a bar called "The Barn" up your way.  A friend used to get drunk and swing by the chandeliers in the place.  That's wildness.  I was sixteen then, he was my hero.  It was kind of dumb, his wildness.  He graduated from Penn Phi Beta Kappa, still dumb.

My son did Phi Beta Kappa too, but he's not dumb.  He's getting married next week.

Bobby

Marchmadness
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3 posted 2008-03-08 01:56 AM


I once wrote a poem called "There's a Wild Sky Over the Mountains" because that was the feeling it gave me.


effjayel
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4 posted 2008-03-08 04:51 AM


quote:
as scarlet clouds skim the candent,
water edged horizon,
in a fine winter sunset’s
translucent-ripple afterglow,


I love these lines. This is obviously the view as seen by the minds eye of a photographer.....

Margherita
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5 posted 2008-03-08 05:07 AM


"humbled" ... yes!
I love it.
Love.
Margherita

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