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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-04-11 07:13 PM

      Night and Day

In those danger-dark hours
of forlorn imaginings,
behind our vacant nightlong
  windows...
when we feel most like
  phantom shades
trapped in a broken mirror’s
  uncertainty,
or lost in infinite journey
  to nowhere...
seek solace and wonder
in what grand new dreams
  may grow
at the roots of the fine
  white clouds,
which fill your daylong
  window!

       -- b. e. adams (4/11/08)

                 ~

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (04-11-2008 10:12 PM).]

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-04-11 10:15 PM

Oh, I do like the thought of letting
"the roots of the fine
white clouds"
fill my "daylong window"!

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

2 posted 2008-04-11 11:51 PM

Bruce... you have smiled my day with your lovely gifting here.. thank you

love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

shyvl
Senior Member

since 2008-04-11

Posts 531
texas, usa

3 posted 2008-04-12 12:01 PM

Thanks for the positive message
sharyn

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2008-04-12 02:13 AM

Lovely, uplifting poem, Bruce.
Ida

NeonKnight
Junior Member

since 2008-04-12

Posts 36
New South Wales, Australia

5 posted 2008-04-12 02:23 AM

Indeed an uplifting and lovely poem.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2008-04-12 06:51 AM

Great Art Bruce, reading your poem i thought to the painter Matisse, i can't explain why...

have a nice day

yann

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

7 posted 2008-04-12 11:07 AM

as always, illusive happiness is within your words...such lovely

Lee J.

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

8 posted 2008-04-12 11:52 AM

"and wonder
in what grand new dreams
may grow
at the roots of the fine
white clouds,s,"

Enjoyed as usual, Sir Poet!

effjayel
Senior Member

since 2007-09-30

Posts 1474
At the Crossroads of Infinity

9 posted 2008-04-12 01:39 PM

"trapped in a broken mirror’s
uncertainty" Yet again Bruce you have managed to paint a minimalistic masterpiece... John

Larrysmom
Senior Member

since 2008-04-03

Posts 533
Florida, USA

10 posted 2008-04-12 09:11 PM

WOW!!! You have captured time with your words… This is gorgeously amazing, so beautiful…

Tammy<333

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

11 posted 2008-04-14 01:47 AM

Bruce,

May your dreams continue to bring poetry to our lives. I have been thinking of you.

A

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

12 posted 2008-04-14 09:49 AM

Astonishing metaphors make for the haunting beauty of this splendid poem!

Bravo!

Art

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

13 posted 2008-04-14 12:12 PM

Secondhanddreampoet,

This is pretty good. Somehow I've never felt like:

" phantom shades
trapped in a broken mirror’s
uncertainty,"

I wonder if that's a bad thing.

Bobby

ArtSolstice
Member

since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

14 posted 2008-04-15 12:56 PM

This poem haunts me. I've returned to it several times now as it summons up all those small-town memories. The eternal tumble of dark and light... the darkness in the light; light in darkness.

Especially:

"behind our vacant nightlong
  windows...
when we feel most like
  phantom shades
trapped in a broken mirror’s
  uncertainty,"

Beautifully written, well crafted.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

15 posted 2008-04-15 05:27 PM

A pleasure to read...James

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

16 posted 2008-04-25 11:53 AM

Bruce,

Beautiful and hopeful. I love the word images that you have created and, even more, I love that you touch my emotions with them.

Alison

Seoulair
Senior Member

since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

17 posted 2008-04-25 02:51 PM

pure beauty!!!

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

18 posted 2008-04-25 05:12 PM

Your words speak of beauty of our earth SHDP!

Wonderful read!!!!

ARCTIC WIND

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

19 posted 2008-04-25 05:27 PM

I always enjoy the eloquent sharing of your poetic thoughts, visions, and feelings.

Another lovely penning, Poet Bruce.

Linda

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

20 posted 2008-04-26 06:10 PM

Thank you all so much for the wonderful comments on
this 'write' and other such humble 'pennings' of mine!

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