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Open Poetry #48

Poet's Manifesto

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2012-07-17 12:01 PM

       A Celebration of Life
         and Wilderness
       (a poet's manifesto)

In the first fine glow of morning
when a grand pearl-grey dawn
breaks upon…the immense,
implacable spirit of the
  shimmering sea,
where tired rivers flow
   seeking respite
beneath fast-fading stars
  in a cosmic dream…
(bisecting the winds of Time)
one thinks of all the tiny,
  reawakening things
in many unsung ‘worlds’
  of new morning promise…
quite different from our own
in which clocks rage endlessly on,
while time and destiny
  laugh and point
at those who may never
  truly 'understand’;
but shall remain instead
  forever ‘lost’...
in power's vain pursuit
and greed’s elusive pleasure,
or jousting with their ever-gathering
shadows of destruction and self-delusion
as to what should truly ‘matter’…
simple and true love, wilderness,
and the celebration of the infinitely
nested universal unity of all that is.

                    --- b. e. adams  (7/17/2012)

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2012-07-17 12:32 PM

The vision flowed with the beauty of dawn bringing awake the soul to the magic around us...priceless beyond value...stunning truths are declared in Poet's Manifesto...**BIG HUGS**

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-07-17 01:05 PM

Powerful poem, the last eight lines are staggering with truth . . .

~*~ they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member

since 2003-10-26

Posts 1105
Watertown, NY

3 posted 2012-07-18 09:12 AM

Your pieces always leave an impression on me. Beautifully done.

-Trina
I'll keep these dreams hidden
inside these eyes of mine
until my tears fall
unto my tainted hear

Marilyn
Member Elite

since 1999-09-26

Posts 2621
Ontario, Canada

4 posted 2012-07-18 11:27 AM

All that comes to mind after reading this is Amen.

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