Moon-shadows and Quicksilver Dreams

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Open Poetry #48

Moon-shadows and Quicksilver Dreams

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2012-07-30 10:24 PM

     Moon-shadows and
     Quicksilver Dreams

primordial nocturnal orb
pure, lustrous, ethereal
hung in the boundless,
eternal cosmic void
to wax and wane in
‘Deep-Time’ perpetuity.
we are but moon-shadows
  and morning mist ...
our rolling lives of brief flux
and quicksilver dreams
like the smoky mirage
in a broken mirror
with truths and true purpose
glimpsed dimly at best
amid an ever-growing knowledge
of our magnificent and endemic
   ignorance.

                --- b. e. adams (7/30/2012)

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2012-07-30 10:51 PM

The title drew me...the writer kept me...the thing about knowing how little we know is the thill of knowing there is so much to learn that we could never learn it all in a lifetime...I have spent a lifetime learning and the most important thing I have learned is there is no end to learn...Love this poem...it gives my mind exercise and my heart harmony...**BIG HUGS**

*may our dreams ever be magical*

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2012-07-31 03:22 AM

Very beautiful indeed, Bruce.

I love the ironic truth of:

amid an ever-growing knowledge
of our magnificent and endemic
ignorance.

How little we know, indeed!

Owl

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2012-07-31 07:09 AM

Ah, Bruce, how you put it all together for your readers to marvel at is a wonderful sight to see each time you compose. You have the knack, Sir, and the knack is formidable.

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

MICHELMAS
Member

since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

4 posted 2012-07-31 09:06 AM

the magic of the moon never ceases to enthrall.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2012-07-31 01:59 PM

Your deep wisdom never ceases to amaze me, Bruce. This is a magnificent example of that wisdom and special poetic talent.
Ida

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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6 posted 2012-07-31 09:54 PM

indeed

wonderful to read you again

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