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Open Poetry #48

All That is Truly Real

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-12-04 01:54 PM

    All That is Truly Real

The  long forgotten ‘endless’
mountain-forest road
disappears into ragged rocks,
dead leaves, evening mist,
and the vanishing chill of
a pallid December sunset.
Here, twilight calls with the voice
of wilderness and the lonely,
in this place well beyond Time’s
whimsy where a hundred million
years are but a heartbeat.
Looking back I sigh.
Looking ahead I sigh
  once again.
During life’s brief candle
many live as blind wanderers
  or the walking dead,
stumbling after ephemerals of
wealth, fleeting fame or glory,
unable to embrace the simple joy
of this moment of the ‘now’
(which is all that is truly real)
with the natural hope and promise
of Spring  and the morning star.

                     --- b. e. adams (12/4/2013)

paderewski
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since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

1 posted 2013-12-04 02:05 PM

Excellent poetry, Bruce, capsuling the moment of NOW which, as you so eloquently said, is the only thing which is real. I liked that you looked to the future where green grass and flowers will cover the land in place of the deadness of winter's starkness.

~*~ But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep.--Frost ~*~

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

2 posted 2013-12-04 02:09 PM

the wealth of nature's bounty replenishing
the emptiness of winter's stilllife each year is a marvel that money will never touch

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
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3 posted 2013-12-04 09:02 PM

so true ... what each of you said about Winter and Spring ... and that which "money can't buy," and such!

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