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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-04-26 12:37 PM

  Deep-Time Moments

A twilight loon cry
pierces silent rocks
in cascading echoes
along this wild-
wooded lake
  of dreams
softly painted in
the silver moonlight,
as a star-velvet sky fills
with a distant refrain
from some ancient
long-forgotten Celtic
  tune;
perhaps it is pure
imagination
or the voices
of our ancestral
consciousness,
out of Deep-Time’s
  misty vale,
singing of all that was
and ‘should have been’ …
in this precious,
  fleeting moment
of the ‘now.’

          --- b. e. adams (4/26/2013)

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-04-26 12:48 PM

Haunting bit of poetry, Bruce. Your words cascade across the tongue as I read them. The poem began with two fantastic lines . .

quote:
A twilight loon cry
pierces silent rocks

. . . and every line after exceeded themselves. Enjoyed this.

~*~ How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. ~*~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2013-04-27 01:50 PM

"singing of all that was
and ‘should have been’ …
in this precious,
fleeting moment
of the ‘now.’"

Wonderful poem, Bruce. Somewhere deep down we all know what was and what should have been - perhaps it's love that awakens us to it and then, of course, slams us back into the 'now'.

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2013-04-28 02:07 AM

You have again painted sadness into beauty with your inimitable excellence, Bruce. I have never seen nor heard a loon (as we don't have them in South Africa) except in Barry's (Magnus') loon poems and in this poem of yours, but thanks to the two of you, I feel I know loons as well as if they are part of my life's highlights. Thank you for the memorable experience.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2013-04-28 08:26 AM

Thanks so much to each of you for your most kind comments on this 'write' !

The adult male Gavia immer (especially in 'breeding plumage') is a rather remarkable looking bird.

Joyce Johnson

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since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

5 posted 2013-04-28 07:26 PM

How very, very pretty. As poetry should be. Love, Joyce

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2013-04-29 06:46 PM

Thank you for the loon's scientific name, Bruce. I looked it up on the Internet, and saw several pictures of this magnificent bird (including adult male in breeding plumage) and found write-ups about it and heard its lonesome, magical, haunting call - NO WONDER you and Barry are inspired to write about them. I won't ever forget its call. Whew! What an experience!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aau4i9iBaNs&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Owl

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2013-05-03 12:37 PM

I don't know how I missed this beauty, Bruce . It is simply magick.
Ida

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

8 posted 2013-05-03 03:11 PM

I enjoyed reading this special moment in nature you've shared with us. Thank you.

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