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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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0 posted 2014-11-17 09:19 PM

           this fleeting life

far above the Autumn mist
among these 'endless' shadow-hills
beneath a frozen vacant moon
beyond all man's futile schemes
   and cascading sorrows
in this place where clouds are born
truly listen to the wisdom of the
   Winter wind
that knows no bounds nor master
and calls only Time’s  vast-eternal
   emptiness ‘home’
grasp for nothing cling to no one
for the only certain certainties
are transience, loss, and change
and a thousand  eternal questions
   without answers
on the random, lonely path of
    fleeting life

              ---  b. e. adams (11/17/2014)

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

1 posted 2014-11-17 10:55 PM

Lovely Bruce. A wee bit of
sadness I detect but beautiful all the same. jo

secondhanddreampoet
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2 posted 2014-11-18 05:39 AM

Thanks, Jo !

I have a rather 'sad' life. I suppose it creeps into the 'poetic scribbles' at times particularly in November (an especially 'difficult' month for me).

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

3 posted 2014-12-30 06:01 PM

A wonderful glimpse, but I don't think the ending will be so sad. Eternal questions without answers, yes as God meant them to be...understanding eternal life is elusive at best...that's the rub for me...the magic of it all.

Happy new year dreampoet...

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2014-12-30 10:00 PM

Happy New Year to you as well !

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2014-12-30 11:57 PM

It may be sad but it is still a masterpiece. Bruce.
ida

secondhanddreampoet
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6 posted 2014-12-31 11:59 AM

thanks, Ms. Ida !!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2015-01-24 07:08 PM

enjoyed...james

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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8 posted 2015-01-24 07:25 PM

thank you, James !

Redstart
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since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

9 posted 2015-01-24 07:29 PM

Beautiful. Man is not, nor ever will be, greater than his place. He has the knowledge to feel the beauty, but the will to destroy the same. But man is ephemeral, a tiny flash in Gaia's plan; a flicker in an endless night.

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