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Open Poetry #49

What We Can Not Possess

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2014-07-29 09:34 PM

     What We Can Not Possess

On the pristine wilderness edge
just beyond a soft Summer sunset,
in the gentle twilight afterglow
with a giant, mystic moon rising,
while tree-shadows phantom-dance
with wisps of deep violet evening mist,
ancient spirits, and ten thousand
years of ancestral human dreams,
the lonely, burdened heart, mind,
   and spirit turn clear
as this ‘endless’ mountain stream.
Here, the grand-scintillating universe
touches down among these ‘endless’
   sylvan hills
where Nature speaks in simple truths
and enlightenment lies in the lovely,
ephemeral moments of the ‘now’
and all such things that we shall
    never 'own'.

               --- b. e. adams (7/29/2014)

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-08-02 01:29 PM

We can own our thoughts, Bruce, and that is the message I got out of this finely written poem of yours.

~*~ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.--Emily Dickimsom ~*~

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

2 posted 2014-08-02 01:39 PM

That infamous "now" we seem to overlook in the
Quest for what is out of the realm of true peace
Very wise words indeed

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2014-08-03 03:27 AM

There are those who think they can own everything, Bruce and there are those of us who know better and just embrace the dream.
Ida

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2014-08-05 09:12 AM

oh lovely shadowplay in this~*~*

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2014-08-05 01:58 PM

Thanks to each of you for your comment/reply posts on this 'write!'

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