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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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ONLY THEN 8 August 2005 When you have listened through the primordial silence to stalactites dripping in ancient caves . . . When you have listened to the unvoiced thoughts of the beautiful and the ugly and the tortured . . . When you have listened to the world dream of music yet to be . . . When you have listened to the whisper of the nation, the fear of the desperate, the laughter of the unborn child, the opening of a flower, the flutter of butterfly wings, the footfall of the smallest ant . . . When you have listened and heard and given dignity and credence to all of these things then you will understand and know and love beyond the glass darkly. Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
All of us can listen but only some of us hear, Diana. I have a feeling you hear more than most. Ida |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
this one reads like prayer, Owl~~~ niiice~ |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
excellent (as usual)! As a former geologist ... I am particularly fond of the beginning ... "When you have listened through the primordial silence to stalactites dripping in ancient caves . . ." |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Ida. That is a very beautiful Ida-thing to say. I believe I hear a lot that many others don’t hear, but I also think that there is still far more that I need to hear. Smiles, Belle. That, too, is a lovely thing to say. The last two lines are a misquote – in word and content - of a part of II Corinthians 13 of the Bible (wording in the King James version), such a very beautiful chapter of the Bible –it says: “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”, (“charity” in more modern versions, being translated as “love”). Owl |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oops! I missed your response, Bruce. I must have been replying while you pressed the Submit button! Thank you for your kind words and I am glad you enjoyed it so much. I love the feel of that part too. Owl |
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