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JenniferMaxwell
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0 posted 2008-03-07 11:34 AM


Someday I will wake up above the horizon
in the place of an ancient star.
- Gu Cheng

This is the hour when night becomes
a primordial void in the dominion of vacancy
before the time of time began.
In this dreaming silence man is reborn
in an oceanic world, unbound by the rules of gravity
and the geometries of light and air. There are no roots or fossils
nor footholds in this seabed.  All is adrift, shapeless,
and ever-changing yet eternal in the soundlessness.
There are no roads or hidden passages, no golden spiral stairs,
only undulating currents and the boundless gifts of tides.
Awash in seamless reveries, what can never be becomes what is
to end the martyrdom of those who feasted on oxygen
in the earth's unbreathable air.



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LadyTom
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1 posted 2008-03-07 12:37 PM


Very good, very good. beautiful poem.

How interesting you quote Gu Cheng.  

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2 posted 2008-03-07 02:04 PM


Thank you very much, LadyTom. Came across Gu Cheng’s “Nameless Flowers” in the bargain book bin and couldn’t resist.  My first exposure to work by the “Misty Poets”.
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3 posted 2008-03-07 04:21 PM


beautifully written
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4 posted 2008-03-08 07:35 AM


thanks very much, firestorm.
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5 posted 2008-04-01 01:39 PM


You seem to have a loud personality and you write some nice poetry.


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6 posted 2008-04-02 01:48 PM


This was amazing, and beautiful.
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7 posted 2008-04-07 11:37 PM


Simply amazing
Well done

Tears of Sanity~

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