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Open Poetry #48

Truth and Kind Intentions

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-12-02 09:15 PM

Truth and Kind Intentions

On such a bleak, grey
late November Day
of howling wind and
  wheeling sky,
bereft of all joy and color,
when the dark wolves
of Winter come a callin,’
with only the faint, dry
sound of dead leaves
  in passing,
as we tread a path of
  pathlessness,
where even Time seems
frozen in a moment
hung on the sunset cusp
of life in transformation
to abject nothingness
or something far greater
beyond this vale of absurdity
and  ultimate loss as to
why we were even here?!
One can only hope that
seeking the ever-elusive truth
and living with the kindest of
   intentions
might somewhere, somehow
   have mattered.

           --- b. e. adams (for 11/30/2013)

paderewski
Member

since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

1 posted 2013-12-03 09:51 AM

This, in my opinion, is the best poem I have ever read of you, Bruce. You allowed yourself to escape into the world of wondering and questioning. Superb.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2013-12-03 10:48 AM

Thank you! Well, I guess it certainly isn't the "happy/smarmy pseudo-sentimental syrup-dipped tripe" that one of my (many) 'critics' accused me of always writing!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2013-12-04 05:43 AM

I have to agree with Jerry, Bruce. A new dimension of you. One of your very best.
As for critics...I only worry about the ones who have something better to offer.
You have very few worries.
Ida

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2013-12-16 08:29 PM

fine writing...James

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2013-12-17 04:13 PM

Beautiful, Bruce. And I am sure it did matter!

Margherita

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