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Two Storms
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Two Storms |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
Two Storms I hear the wild ocean pounding upon a very ancient shore, its waves crashing and thundering shaking rocks and rattling stones, dragging the earth back into itself: I hear the thunder as lightning whips unruly clouds wildly driven by swirling winds. Yet, upon that shore I can stand Alone, naked and unafraid – touch that wild ocean's back with fingertips, 'til it lays purring at my feet, caressing the shore gently; 'til the sun comes out, ‘til the clouds turn white, ‘til the breeze whispers softly through my hair. In that storm, there is great strength: A movement of shaping, creation in toil, majestic, wondrous changes being wrought. Did it destroy? No, only a creative spasm, Birth pang of mother earth, evolution, A way of continuance, endless change: Not power, nor death, but eternal life – in eternal motion! Daily I witness another storm Full of brute power, savagery, unstoppable: imprinting deepening scars upon the earth, fueled by wild unreason and demented minds, darkened by lure of greed, by lust, by ego gone mad. I try to tame this one with love also but it lunges madly at my extended empty hands, attacks, tears and leaves me to die among its legacy of dread and death, to rot amidst shards, shreds, shatterings of expiring life it sends flowing down a polluted river Styx: The power storm whose epicenter holds so deathly still, so confident in every boardroom of every land. |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
"Yet, upon that shore I can stand Alone, naked and unafraid – touch that wild ocean's back with fingertips, 'til it lays purring at my feet, caressing the shore gently;" *wicked* whew....  I LOVED this part!! |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
great imagery ... a most fine, timely, and 'important' write! MUCH applause!! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Gaia must win this battle over the destructive human storm. |
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