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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-09-12 11:27 PM

           Down the Rolling Years

Past sanctuary’s finest illusions…
just  beyond the Autumn evening window,
wafting wisps of smoke and curling mist dance…
(among a thousand indifferent shadows
leaning together in the silver-pale moonlight)
to the distant cadence of a twilight drum
beating out the simplest immutable truths,
that even the ‘greatest’ of men
shall leave no impregnable footprints
   to talk against time,
and must ultimately relinquish all
   in final equipollent surrender,
to the infinite-eternal cosmic void.

            --- b. e. adams (9/12/08)

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-09-13 08:25 AM

A beautiful, melancholic write, dear Bruce. The "final levelling" is a good thing. The cosmic void may feel chilly when we forget that above all we are spirit. We are children of eternity, into this truth I relax, because deep within I feel I am connected to our common Divine Source, where LOVE reigns supreme and makes every single soul equally precious.
Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

2 posted 2008-09-13 11:17 AM

When you say .. among thousands indifferent shadows you say all. the melancholia the life the memory the nature...

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2008-09-15 09:10 PM

Among those shadows, we all dance the same.
Another ponderful piece, poet.

ArtSolstice
Member

since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

4 posted 2008-09-16 01:22 PM

Aspects of this poem recall Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, both works including that intersection of nature and the senses. Whereas Arnold hears the “eternal note of sadness” among the auditory cues of stones in the tide, you guide us to that sadness through nature’s rhythms pulsing to visual cues, and the interesting audio/visual combination of the “twilight drum”. Though you two poets reached different conclusions, you seem to have traveled together along the same path for a bit.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2008-09-16 03:38 PM

"even the greatest on men shall leave no impregable footsteps to talk against time."
"The greatest of men" are often invisible anyway. Great Title.
Ida

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

6 posted 2008-09-16 03:44 PM

loved this line:

"that even the ‘greatest’ of men
shall leave no impregnable footprints"

my soul, loved it all...not to mention the fact that I had to look up 'equipollent' ...a good learning experience, too

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7 posted 2008-09-16 03:53 PM

Yo Secondhanddreampoet,

The years do roll down, and that's probably a good thing, it makes room for others.

What you say is true.

Bobby

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

8 posted 2008-09-16 05:55 PM

loved it

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

9 posted 2008-09-22 08:26 PM

I think that this is very true and very beautiful.

Alison

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