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secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-02-09 07:19 PM

     Poetic Fate

Keep company with
the ever-rolling clouds,
for they expect nothing.

Seek reclamation
in the rhythms
of an ancient forest,
and music of the
twilight-dawn.

Taste the evening
breeze in a lovely
  memory’s
loon-song flight.

Sail the trackless deep
in your finest Celadon
  dreams;

but share not the
poet's fate...
to drown in endless
words and reality’s
inexorable void.

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (02-09-2008 08:53 PM).]

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2008-02-09 07:25 PM

Poet, You may have made the crest with this delight!
Wonderful write.

Bob K
Member Elite

since 2007-11-03

Posts 4208

2 posted 2008-02-09 07:58 PM

Poor men are weeping
Who thought nature capricious.
Ever-rolling clouds!

No one sees these clouds
About to fall like anvils
From a leaden sky.

Even with closed eyes
A man can smell the lilacs
Then the summer storm.

When a piece of flint
Hit the steel haft of a knife
The first loon took flight.

Five tired men. One stands
Helpless before the heavens
Hoping to be real.

St. Ann's lace dipping
Pays respects to the west wind.
We bow to what's real.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2008-02-09 09:38 PM

now this is REALLY fine!...

particularly:

"Five tired men. One stands
Helpless before the heavens
Hoping to be real."

and, for me:

"St. Ann's lace dipping
Pays respects to the west wind."

...is an especially superb image!

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2008-02-10 12:08 PM

Bruce

Beautifully expressed - I think you just keep getting better and better.

A

Michyla
Junior Member

since 2008-02-06

Posts 15
qld, australia.

5 posted 2008-02-10 12:16 PM

very good. i like it. keep up the good work.

xoxo.

michyla.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-02-10 02:54 AM

Your endless words touch so many, Bruce. The world would have no voice without the poet.
Ida

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

7 posted 2008-02-10 10:02 AM

Well, dear Bruce, with this description of a Poet's fate you remind me of the great Italian Poet Giacomo Leopardi, who is a clear example of what you convey here in your usual masterful way.

Thanks to God we are provided with a limitless mind/imagination .... which compensates for "reality" ... but to be able to imagine, don't we somewhere somehow KNOW about it all (collective consciousness i.e., perceptivity etc.).

Thank you for another significant write.

love
Margherita

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

8 posted 2008-02-10 11:55 AM

Seek reclamation
in the rhythms
of an ancient forest,
and music of the
twilight-dawn........

Beautiful Descriptions and Words!

ARCTIC WIND

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