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Open Poetry #49

More Than We Know

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2014-08-05 09:07 PM

    More Than We Know

Wildflowers grow dim
in the vanishing twilight,
while tree-shadows dance
with the gathering moonbeams.
The Summer wind mingles
  the scents
of jasmine and honeysuckle
from the world of men
around ten thousand corners
of these mountain forests,
as cicada sing their cryptic song
  to the fireflies
beneath an endless cosmic swirl
of ever-circling constellations.
Come ... and learn
to be quiet and gentle.
Drink deep of calm humility,
for every moment here
is far, far more than
you or I shall ever truly
‘know’ … or be.

           --- b. e. adams

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2014-08-06 02:45 AM

I think what I like most about your poetry besides the fact that you are a master poet is that it is the poetry of a gentleman, Bruce.
Ida

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

2 posted 2014-08-06 07:31 AM

so I could just about smell the jasmine and honeysuckle in this micro-window onto a beautiful summer's eve....

lovely, dreampoet~*~

~write-on~*~

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2014-08-06 07:51 AM

This puts the reader in the mood for superb co-mingling of the rhythm of the poet and the playful tenor of of your thoughts . . .

quote:
as cicada sing their cryptic song
to the fireflies

Love what you have done here, Bruce.

~*~ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.--Emily Dickimsom ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2014-08-06 09:16 AM

I was raised with two "primary expectations":

1. To live up to the 'family motto' (roughly translated from the latin): "What man is truly a man that does not make the world better?!"

2. To be a 'gentle man' and a gentleman (a 'class act' at all times) particularly toward all the 'lovely ladies' of this world.

so ... if I am labeled a "gentleman poet," that certainly 'works for me!'

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