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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2014-11-05 02:12 PM


       The Rag and Bone Man

Sixty years have come and gone
to who knows where or why,
as a traceless lifetime slips away.
I walk alone, a rag and bone man,
amid a sea of vast indifference
through cold and silent moonlit shadows,
trailing a ponderous ball and chain of
   accumulated ignorance.
Perhaps the grand and final epiphany
is simply how very, very little we
   truly come to ‘know.’

                 --- b. e. adams (11/4/2014)


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latearrival
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1 posted 2014-11-05 06:54 PM


Yes Bruce,It has often been said that the more we learn the more we realize how little we know. Best to you, jo
secondhanddreampoet
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2 posted 2014-11-05 09:14 PM


Men say they 'know many things'
But lo, they have taken wings
All the 'arts' and the 'sciences'
and a million 'appliances,'
The wind that blows
is far, far more
than anyone truly 'knows!'

As H.D. Thoreau put it ...
"all my 'knowledge' (and experience)
brings me only ever closer to my
ignorance" (particularly about human
choices and behavior)

latearrival
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3 posted 2014-11-06 12:44 PM


yes indeed

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4 posted 2014-11-07 08:59 PM


We certainly aren't around long enough in this puny lifetime to learn much. Just a little peek through the curtain, I would say.
                                      Ida

secondhanddreampoet
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5 posted 2014-11-07 09:20 PM


Yes indeed ! ... and the 'curtain' always 'falls' or closes too quickly on any meager glimpse of the pathways of eternity ...
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