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Open Poetry #49

Fireflies and Freedom

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2014-07-18 02:20 PM

Fireflies and Freedom

Here in the deepening
Summer twilight magic
along the forest-meadow
   edge,
where there are no clocks
to bind the mind and steal
  the soul,
this timeless slice of
wilderness still sings,
with a chorus of dancing
stars and gentle moon,
to the lonely mind and
  heart
of fireflies and freedom,
the boundless joy of
  love,
and all that we shall
never possess.

                 --- b. e. adams (7/18/2014)

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-07-18 04:31 PM

Must be nice to have the clocks silenced for a time. Me, I am geared for watching the time unfortunately, even though I am retired. Liked the poem, as I do most of you, Bruce.

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

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2014-07-18 05:36 PM

Sounds like a wonderful, magical place to me, Bruce. Keeper.
ida

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2014-07-18 09:05 PM

Thanks JP and Ida !

These ancient 'endless' hills of 'ol Appalachia are a rather 'magical' place,methinks?!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2014-07-19 11:06 AM

"and all that we shall never possess"

You better that any of us can probably appreciate the joy of those unpossessable things like sunrises and sunsets. Well the truth be told (as you well know) nature itself. I found this poem to be very uplifting.

Lori

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