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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2008-09-19 08:05 PM


               ‘Reality’ lost

In the final wake of sunset
as a glorious Autumn moon
peeks around all star-river corners,
shall I dare to dance in this glorious
  moonlight?...
and will my lonely shadow sing anthems
to the evening mist and restless wind?...
(for they are more akin, and ‘real’ than
  I have ever been)
here where the last of faith and hope
lie forlorn and trembling
on the barren, frost-etched ground.

               --- b.e. adams (9/19/08)

© Copyright 2008 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2008-09-19 08:25 PM


You always set the mood and create a
scene that ebbs and flows, with feeling.

Really nice~

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2 posted 2008-09-19 08:47 PM


Yo Secondhanddreampoet,

This is very good work.

Sometimes it's not good to be real, where  we tend to glory in the horror we create.

Bobby

Midnitesun
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Gaia
3 posted 2008-09-19 09:24 PM


"and will my lonely shadow sing anthems
to the evening mist and restless wind?...
(for they are more akin, and ‘real’ than
  I have ever been)"

In reality, you ARE the mist and wind, in all their myriad of presentations.
There are no lines of separation, no space,
between you and all that exists
in the universe.

You know this to be true deep down in the core of who you are, Deep-time poet.

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058

4 posted 2008-09-20 03:28 PM


"here where the last of faith and hope
lie forlorn and trembling
on the barren, frost-etched ground"

cool phrasing...love the words and the mood they emote...excellent ending...brings the reader where you want them...sorta like a parachute...gently, stoicly, surely

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
5 posted 2008-09-20 08:43 PM


quote:
as a glorious Autumn moon
peeks around all star-river corners,



What scenery! Simply awesome, dear Bruce!

Love,
Margherita

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
6 posted 2008-09-21 04:01 AM


Beautiful, deep sensitive poem fraught with meaning on so many levels.  I agree with all the responses before me, and particularly love Kacy's reply.  Your poem is full of happy sadness and sad happiness, full of hopelessness and faith, you are the epitome of both reality and surreality.  Most of all you are a wonderful poet and a wonderful person.

I think this is my favourite of all of your poems that I have read to date.

- Owl

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634
The Southwest
7 posted 2008-09-22 12:36 PM



there's no line left to choose poet
but that's fine

I love the whole poem

echolong
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since 2008-09-17
Posts 22

8 posted 2008-09-22 12:47 PM


sigh. beautiful.

Old Echo

WTBAKELAR
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Utah, USA
9 posted 2008-09-22 01:58 PM


No,  this one could be repeated many a time with out me getting tired of it.

"and will my lonely shadow sing anthems
to the evening mist and restless wind?...

Thats Good Stuff.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945
Texas, USA
10 posted 2008-09-22 03:51 PM


I wanted to dance in the moonlight.  But my lonely shadow can't sing when hope lies panting her last on the ground, and my reality is as tenuous as the mist.  

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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