How about a prosaic piece for this challenge

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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2013-02-07 08:31 PM

See this Bubble Nebula...what tale might you weave in a prosaic poem?
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090124.html

Let me know if you try one so I'll know to look for it. Include your topic/title in your response here.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

[This message has been edited by VAS (02-07-2013 11:22 PM).]

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

1 posted 2013-02-07 08:54 PM

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Silence

I have known the silence of the stars and the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word,
And the silence of the woods before the winds of spring begin,
And the silence of the sick
When their eyes roam about the room.

And I ask: For the depths
Of what use is language?

A beast in the field moans a few times
When death takes its young.
And we are voiceless in the presence of realities---
We cannot speak.

A curious boy asks an old soldier
Sitting in front of the grocery store,
“How did you lose your leg?”
And the old soldier is struck with silence,
Or his mind flies away
Because he cannot concentrate it on Gettysburg.
It comes back jocosely
And he says, “ A bear bit it off.”
And the boy wonders, while the old soldier
Dumbly, feebly lives over
The flashes of guns, the thunder of cannon,
The shrieks of the slain,
And himself lying on the ground,
And the hospital surgeons, the knives,
and the long days in bed.
But if he could describe it all
He would be an artist
But if he were an artist there would be deeper wounds
Which he could not describe.

There is a silence of great hatred,
And the silence of great love,
And the silence of a deep peace of mind,

And the silence of an embittered friendship,

There is the silence of a spiritual crisis,
Through which your soul, exquisitely tortured,
Comes with visions not to be uttered
Into a realm of higher life.

And the silence of the gods who understand each other without speech,
There is the silence of defeat.

There is the silence of those unjustly punished;
And the silence of the dying whose hand
Suddenly grips yours.

There is the silence between father and son,
When the father cannot explain his life,
Even though he be misunderstood for it.

There is the silence that comes between husband and wife.
There is the silence of those who have failed;
And the vast silence that covers
Broken nations and vanquished leaders.

There is the silence of Lincoln,
Thinking of the poverty of his youth.
And the silence of Napoleon
After Waterloo.

And the silence of Jeanne d’ Arc
Saying amid the flames, “Blessèd Jesus”---
Revealing in two words all sorrow, all hope.

And there is the silence of age,
Too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it
In words intelligible to those who have not lived
The great range of life.

And there is the silence of the dead.

If we who are in life cannot speak
Of profound experiences,
Why do you marvel that the dead
Do not tell you of death?

Their silence shall be interpreted
As we approach them.

Edgar Lee Masters

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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2013-02-07 11:27 PM

Wow, all of that from the bubble nebula. It is of course a silent realm that we witness here, but my, it sent you in a myriad of directions. Is it that you, in witnessing an element of the universe, you delved into its history as we know it? You certainly explored a span of it.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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