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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2015-10-03 08:18 PM


    Nights Such as This

long tree-shadows
dance in the setting sun.
silently, almost imperceptibly
the day and summer slip away.
a cool-fresh pine fragrance
rides the twilight breeze
mingling with clouds and stars.
there is no human truth
so pure as a mountain
forest on the cusp of Autumn.
All the universe and eternity
turn on this moment.
if only the moon
were not wordless
what a deep-time
story she could tell
of  grand-immortal
nights such as this.

               --- b. e. adams (Oct. 3, 2015)


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Ticklefingers
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1 posted 2015-10-04 03:43 AM


I shouldn't concern myself for a moon that can't speak of a nights' splendor.

The moon has no better spokesman then yourself poet.


88's friend

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

secondhanddreampoet
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2 posted 2015-10-04 10:40 AM


thank you!

If most Americans were seriously exposed to poetry and "Deep-Time" geology in the educational system,
perhaps they would not have the typical 'knee-jerk' distaste for poetry and would also evolve a natural inclination
toward appreciation, respect, and stewardship of Gaia (Nature)?!

            The Peace of Wild Things
             BY WENDELL BERRY

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s
lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.


Ticklefingers
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3 posted 2015-10-04 01:55 PM


While I do not despair for the 'world' (I have faith in its restoration in time), I do "rest in the grace of it" and I do feel free...finally.

Thanks for the lovely read of this most inspiring poem of Berry's.


88's friend

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2015-10-04 05:49 PM


you are most welcome ... he is always seriously 'inspirational'
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