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Open Poetry #48

'Deep-Time' Dreams

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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0 posted 2013-12-08 07:26 PM

   'Deep-Time' Dreams

In  random thoughts
and distant dreams
these ancient rocks
of ‘Deep-Time' come
   alive
and speak to some with
silent eloquence of a
thousand vanished worlds.
One hundred millions years
is but Gaia’s heartbeat
in these ‘endless’ mountain
  forests.
Neither riches and power
nor fame and glory matter
where the eternally rolling
seasons bow to no one.
Here, in this Winter valley
brim full of silver moonlight,
as the wind plays an ageless
haunting tune of loss and
   longing
through the willow strings,
wisdom and enlightenment
may be found in the pursuit
of humility, love, compassion,
truth, and emptiness.

                --- b. e. adams (12/8/2013)

paderewski
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since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

1 posted 2013-12-08 07:41 PM

Absolutely! You have given your mountains the sense of itself by paying homage where it is due, Bruce. For centuries the Alleghenies have survived and they will be there long after we are gone. Sorta makes a guy feel a bit humbled.

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

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
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2 posted 2013-12-09 10:17 AM

The oldest part of the Appalachians have been around over 400 million years; however,
even that is next to nothing to a 4.6 billion yr. old Earth and a 14 billion yr. old universe!

Kit McCallum

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since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

3 posted 2013-12-09 07:08 PM

Your appreciation and love of nature's majesty comes through beautifully Secondhanddreampoet. Thank you for this lovely read and sense of appreciation for nature's works. Very much enjoyed.

Best wishes,
/Kit

Gale
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since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

4 posted 2013-12-10 12:04 PM

I always loved mountains and rocks!
They seem so wise,
they can teach us so many things!

ponderthepoetorrsx
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since 2011-06-25

Posts 284
U.S , Ca

5 posted 2013-12-10 06:34 PM

Enjoyed the dream metaphor

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