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secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2012-11-03 09:05 PM

                  Certainties

In this Autumn twilight rainbow-forest,
’mid seasons idling on the cusp of time,
what shall pass?...
and what remain?...
as certain certainties
beyond these Autumn winds
  of change,
when the winter-heart and soul
  turn clear
as the crystal moonlight,
dancing through the frosted
  pines
with all the dreams we’ve left
  behind,
like  retreating shadows,
and no illusions stand…
to chasten this boundless universe,
but infinitely nested and cascading
perpetual motion, change, and Time.

                 --- b. e. adams (11/3/2012)

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-11-03 09:14 PM

The last two lines caused me to sit up and take a critical look at you poem again. I like the idea that facing the winter of our life we think about what we have left behind in our cluttered past to anger the ones who are there to anger. I absolutely love this poem and it goes into my library . . .

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2012-11-04 01:15 AM

Thanks Jerry! ... some folk's past are more 'cluttered' than others.
I often feel like I've lived at least 2 1/2 'lifetimes' squeezed into one.
If I've achieved 'wisdom,' it may have been at too high a cost; and
that was mostly that all my 'knowledge' has only brought me ever
closer to my 'ignorance' ... especially about 'human nature' and
behavior.

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (11-04-2012 09:14 AM).]

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2012-11-08 12:30 PM

Thib poem goes into my library as well, Bruce.
Ida

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2012-11-09 02:39 PM

beautiful poem, the metaphor of automn is so close of the realuty of this season, the poem works great for me,splendid,

yann

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

5 posted 2012-11-09 02:41 PM

hmm seems us older poets are thinking a lot of the past present and future...nice write

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

6 posted 2012-11-09 02:45 PM

I always love this time of year in as you called it the rainbow forest. Enjoyed.

~V~

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2012-11-10 12:34 PM

Yes as time passes life is full of change...James

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