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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
Now, after the Storm, the air is dry and clear. Now, after the Rain, the Sun is shining as everyone knew it would. The Sun has been shining for eons. On the morning I left home for good, burning my bridges to the past, on the day I traded Security for Freedom, the same Sun was shining and last time I was in love, remembered as if in a dream, the same Sun was shining and even in my darkest hours, when most I needed someone and no one else seemed with me, the Sun was always by my side. I remember when I heard the news (that Friday afternoon in second grade) that President Kenedy was dead, and how they let us go home early, and the feel of automn sunshine on my face. This same Sun shown on the D-Day armada, On Lee and Grant at Aplomattox, on all the fabled cities of the past. The Inca and Egyptians built their temples for the Sun. The ancient Greeks used the shadow of the Sun at noon to measure the circle of the Earth, as well as the circle of the Moon. And even Early Man (pitiful, his arms full of twigs) saw and felt the same Sun shining, on his raw and hostile world. it intrigues me to think that on a steaming afternoon many millions of years ago, a time when the Earth spun faster in its circle, when the Moon was not so far away, and all the stars were in the wrong places; how even way back then the same Sun was shining though the world it lit was different. The Sun was there before the human race. The Sun was there when life on Earth began; and likely, there before the Earth was formed. And there is no reason to doubt that perhaps a million years from now, though Earth might be a barren lifeless rock, and humanity is long since dead, or gone to seed, that the Earth will still be spinning, the tides will still be sweeping, and the seasons, still ebbing and flowing, and the Sun, still rising and setting, and the Moon, still waxing and waning, and the stars, still tracing their ecliptic arcs through astronomic spans of Time and Space. < !signature--> All that you are seeking is also seeking you [This message has been edited by Jaime Fradera (edited 11-30-2000).] |
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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
Dear reader. I deeply appreciate your attention to reading my stuff. Please note, however, that for technical reasons I can not yet use the "reply" function (I am blind and use a screen access program). I can read your reply, but please do not be offended if I do not personally reply to your reply on the board using the icons, but love to respond to mail, and have the time of my life with it! I hope to resolve the posting issue in the next few days I want to thank you again for taking the time to read my piece, and look forward to correspond with you. Cheers, Jaime All that you are seeking is also seeking you |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Now you knew I would come in to peek... and what I see likes me much...  so if you don't mind I've added it to my library... Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Jaime~ Very thought provoking poem, I enjoyed this  -SEA |
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Kevin Rose Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 64Liverpool UK |
Excellent imagery jamie. I loved the feeling of hope this gave me. I really appreciated the way it says there is always tomorrow. Just the pick me up I needed. Thanks. |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Jaime my friend what a powerful thoughtful poem you have penned...I hadnt thought about the sun quite like this...not quite eternal...but there through the ages...wonderful Ignore those who would clip your wings...fly ever upward...even if it means scorched wings |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
Wonderful, Jaime, simply wonderful. I love the visions of this beautiful poem. It flows into the heart. Thank you so very much for this read, dear friend. Love I leave with you my friend whether it be in your life or of yet the essense of your dreams. [URL=http://path2riches.com]http://path2riches.com |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Great poem Jaime loved every word of it..reminded me of a science article I read "It is estimated that the Milky Way galaxy has more than 100 billion stars. Picture an encyclopedia devoting one page to each of these stars - our sun and the rest of our solar system would be limited to one page. How many volumes would the set need to have in order to cover the stars in the Milky Way? With volumes of reasonable thickness, it is said that the encyclopedia would not fit in the New York Public Library, with it's 256 miles of shelf space! How long would it take you to examine those pages? "To flip through it a the rate of one page per second, would require over ten thousand years," explains the book 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way.' Yet the stars making up our galaxy are but a small fraction of the stars in the estimated 50 billion galaxies in the universe. If the encyclopedia contained a page for each of these stars it would not fit on all the library shelves on earth. "The more we know about the universe," says the book, "the more we come to see how little we know." It truly is a wonder and I sure like how you think about it!! have a good day....ethome |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I would invite everyone to read more about Jaime in Prose...he is quite a remarkable gentleman... Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Yes Sunshine he is...hope everyone takes the time to meet him |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
It's a pleasure, Jaime, to read your work. You have wonderful insights into the true insignificance of our worldly existance. Only someone of your experience could possibly see it as you do... Nice poetry, my friend..  |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
a sad commentary on those of us who are sighted and cannot write with your insight. i will read you from now on.! |
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