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Magic Solias
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since 2003-11-08
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0 posted 2003-11-15 09:41 PM


MAGNIFICENT

Have you ever looked
into the night sky
wondering about those
tiny sparkling lights
that we call stars?

And have you then
known that almost
all of them are distant
suns, like our own
that gives us life?

And have you then
also imagined their distance
so far away, measured in
light-years?

And that of each one of those
you see only its past
never how they are now
presently?

And have you seen the
rising moon, bathed in
its light reflected from the
sun, bathing the other half of
our earth in golden light?

And have you then
speculated about distant
stars, where it all goes
whence it all comes?

Have you once tried
to think about
the end of space
and its beyond?

Then have you not
seen yourself so small,
seen from another sun
less than a dot?

And how magnificent
this ecstasy to muse
that you can think
and dream and breath
and then you know
you are in space,
and all your troubles
fade away!


(from "Transcend" by Magic Solias)

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wandering glider
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since 2001-04-04
Posts 501
aloft
1 posted 2003-11-16 01:20 AM


But of course . . .
I wander there often,
and sleep better at night for it.
- - - - -
I think I might have written this without the interrogative construction, as it seems a bit overplayed (just my 2 cents worth).

-glider-

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
2 posted 2003-11-16 02:21 AM


I think we all have, at one time or another

great thoughtful write

She
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since 2002-11-29
Posts 41
Wishing On A Northern Star
3 posted 2003-11-16 02:35 AM


small parts in something so much bigger...and possibly so much more beautiful than we are. Lovely writing.

makes me think of a poem about a light year compared to a regular year...something like that. I don't think I have the proper understanding to write it though.

enjoyed

"You put a stain on all of my good days."
Matchbox Twenty "Disease"

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