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Open Poetry #48

on the cusp of Spring

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-03-11 02:45 PM

           On the Cusp of Spring

On evenings like this…
when ‘life’ seems so lovely…or hopeless,
(with epiphanies tapping at the windows)
the prehensile mind sparks to consciousness
in the glow of inestimable  ‘truths’:

that it likely takes a lifetime
to truly ‘listen’ to the  wind
or query a cloud
and  ‘see’ what it  ‘knows’…

that there is far more ‘meaning’
in a deserted meadow by twilight,
a Redwood forest 'cathedral,'
or one trembling blade of grass,
than in all the ‘sacred’ tomes, dogmatic
rituals, or  stone and steel edifices
    of men …

that none of our ‘raging differences’
    really matter
only our commonalities of needs
   especially for love ...
in such a grand-scintillating cosmos
of ‘Deep-Time’ potentialities
and noctilucent ‘poet-dreams’!

                  --- b. e. adams (3/10/13)

[we need to 'think' universally and 'act' globally (in concert as one 'family of mankind')
NOT just 'think' globally and 'act' locally as the cliche goes (which is actually off by
one order of magnitude) ... all the focus on parochial differences in race, nationality,
religion, etc. is the basal source of the all-too-many scourges of human history]

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2013-03-11 07:01 PM

Couldn't agree more, dear Bruce, with your in depth visions and considerations.

Very well constructed poem that has great impact.

Margherita

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2013-03-12 02:29 AM

Very nice thoughts...James

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