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Down the Rolling Years
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Down the Rolling Years |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! 
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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) |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
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; |
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poddarku Senior Member
since 2008-01-15
Posts 589india |
When you say .. among thousands indifferent shadows you say all. the melancholia the life the memory the nature... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Among those shadows, we all dance the same. Another ponderful piece, poet. |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
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. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
"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 |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
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 |
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Robert E. Jordan Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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 |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
loved it  |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
I think that this is very true and very beautiful. Alison |
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