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The Ultimate 'Stranger' |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! 
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The Ultimate ‘Stranger’ When the sleepless moon retreats beyond a pale-rose dawn, in the trembling damp of a fleeting morning mist… a pensive melancholy stirs the soul (deconstructing hopes and dreams) with memories of what ‘might have been’, and loves forever lost to the caverns of time and destiny with all the other ‘important things’ both tiny and grand...the mind assumes, left unspoken…unwritten…undone… until our mirrors shake the conscience and consciousness, (in sun-shocked epiphanies) with the face of the ultimate ‘stranger’! |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
profound writing. very good. I read "The Ultimate 'Stranger'" as the inner self. enjoyed as always. |
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since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
"in the trembling damp of a fleeting morning mist… a pensive melancholy stirs the soul (deconstructing hopes and dreams) with memories of what ‘might have been’, and loves forever lost to the caverns of time and destiny with all the other ‘important things’ both tiny and grand...the mind assumes, left unspoken…unwritten…undone…" this left me breathless!! I think this is a favorite of mine now...  |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
Yes, this is very profound writing!!!! |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
Oh, Deep-Time Poet ... This write makes me think of so many things! Camus’ The Stranger, aka The Outsider, explores the constraints of time along with the absurd and existentialism through the awakening heart of the book’s main character. It’s no surprise when Camus tells us, “Literature is about trying to capture the one or two moments in your life when your heart opened up.” So much of excellence in and outside of art & literature is created by ‘strangers’, those whose interior landscapes and vision are richer than their peers – Thoreau, Duncan, Rodin, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bernini, Sartre, Van Gogh, Hesse -- the list is endless and we can all add our own favorites to it. “Know yourself”, attributed to at least 5 Greek philosophers, is inscribed near the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. And how many of us do? Thank you for this beautifully written work. |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Secondhanddreampoet, This could be improved by spacing out the thoughts a little bit. As is, it rather runs together. Think strophe breaks. Bobby |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Although short, all the pieces I've read thus far from you contain more substance than poems twice their length...this is certainly no exception  Ruth |
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Dominique-Simone Senior Member
since 2005-11-12
Posts 643 |
your poems always feel so mystical. I love them |
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