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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-05-11 01:41 PM

    Transience and Unity

dance in the long-shadow
  sunset
beyond the careworn day

learn to be gentle
as the Spring twilight
evening breeze

let your mind and spirit
quiet and turn clear as
moonlight in wilderness

dream with the spinning
   galaxies
on this star-tipped night

rejoice in the boundless
   potential
of each fine new-morning
   dawn

humbly contemplate the
rolling-seasons cadence
of ten thousand years

and know with infinite
certainty the very
nature of things …
that all is flux and
  all is one

                 --- b. e. adams [5/11/2013]

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (05-11-2013 06:34 PM).]

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-05-11 02:18 PM

A fine soul-searching poem, Bruce. The advice you lent the reader was certainly good advice, if only taken to heart. My favorite was . . .

quote:
rejoice in the boundless
potential
of each fine new-morning
dawn

~*~ I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. ~*~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2013-05-11 03:09 PM

Bruce, I am sure you are sick of hearing that a current poem is my favourite of yours, so I am trying very hard not to say it again - but not succeeding. This is my favourite of yours, so there! I said it! I suppose, if truth be told, if I had to read them all and choose one of those many favourites, I probably couldn't.

For the record, I did as you suggested in your poem, and oh boy, did I need it right now!!! This poem is so calming and reassuring and so beautiful beyond beautiful. I am going to put this into my secondhanddreampoet folder and re-read it many times as a stress-reliever and simply to imbibe the beauty of the poem.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
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3 posted 2013-05-11 04:08 PM

Mr. J. and Ms. D. ... thank you so much my talented friends, for your very kind
comments about this most recent of my ever-so-humble lil' "poetic scribbles!"

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2013-05-12 06:21 AM

It's magnificent in its whole, but I just want to quote this:

quote:
learn to be gentle
as the Spring twilight
evening breeze

because that alone would just make an immense difference for humanity!

Simply wonderful, dear Bruce.

Margherita

Kit McCallum

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Member Laureate

since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

5 posted 2013-05-12 09:58 AM

Such a lovely and serene piece to calm the mind and soul, Bruce. Very beautiful!

Best wishes,
/Kit

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
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6 posted 2013-05-12 03:18 PM

Thank you Margherita and Kit !

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

7 posted 2013-05-13 07:38 PM

You've once again stilled my mind to gaze upon infinite beauty. Thank you.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2013-05-13 11:42 PM

Great writing and much wisdom here, Bruce.
Ida

Freely_expressing
Member

since 2008-10-16

Posts 69
NSW, Australia

9 posted 2013-05-14 06:55 PM

Another beautifully constructed set of images! Thanks for sharing
- ben

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