Trying again..repost from #33 Upon This Mysterious Mountain

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Trying again..repost from #33 Upon This Mysterious Mountain

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-10-21 12:09 PM

Written while listening to a live performance of Hovhaness' "Mysterious Mountain (Symphony #2)"

                        Upon this Mysterious Mountain

                        to walk the stream’s banks
                        one summer morn
                        butters and dragons
                        flit in carousels
                        above rubeckia,
                        ox-eye daisies
                        and sand hills
                        stroked with high water’s fingers
                        rain swells’ hands
                        finger-painting
                        nature’s rhythms
                        across the land
                        and you––
                        you walk here, too,
                        if but in my heart,
                        in my soul,
                        within my spirit,
                        holding me steadfast
                        with your love
                        your profound
                        enduring love
                        that both brings
                        these tears
                        weeping with joy and sorrow
                        and in the while dries them
                        with the serenity, the peace
                        your love brings, even now,
                        in these latter days beyond
                        the reach of your hands
                        yes, you are gone,
                        yet your love sustains,
                        strengthens, and creates
                        a vibrance in me,
                        a mystery that understanding
                        cannot claim
                        a return to
                        serenity that bathes
                        with peace

                        ©October 9, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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1 posted 2004-10-21 12:20 PM

this is pretty

a bit Zen

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