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Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 2001-10-20 02:26 PM

In wide river ever flowing,
lives the spirit of all knowing,
born in mountains never scaled,
spawned of winds by gods exhaled.

Weaned in icecapped mountain brook,
nurtured 'mid high alpine nook,
racing down high mountain's valley,
rising forth from torrent's salley.

Dropping to the plains temarious,
lurking in the depths precarious,
silent eddies ever swirling,
in the vortex, truths unfurling.

Confronted by no mortal being,
consciousness of death unseeing,
lost in streams of shifting time.
witness not pain's pantomime,

Four winds converge on river's crest,
north to south, and east to west,
bridging words, by man not written,
unknown truths by sorrow bitten.

Evils drift, by mortals phantomed,
amid the splendors yet unfathomed
unseen currents of the river,
spirit to the sea deliver.

Flows the river, eversending,
in its womb, life neverending,
flowing, flowing to the sea,
Spirit flows eternally.

[This message has been edited by Tim (edited 10-20-2001).]

Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 2001-10-20 02:54 PM

I sat once beside the shores of Yellowstone Lake and marveled at the thought that I was observing the birth of our countries great rivers - and I thought about the journey those rivers would take to the sea... I like this a lot, Tim..

Primarily Anapestic Tetrameter here, m'friend (that's a whole lot more difficult to write than iambic...

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[This message has been edited by Nan (edited 10-20-2001).]

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2001-10-20 03:04 PM

Tim,
An excellent write, I'll be looking for more.

Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

3 posted 2001-10-20 03:08 PM

anapestic? sheesh, here I thought I was a anabaptist... *smile*

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2001-10-20 03:30 PM

Here I go, jumping on your post again...and I sure wish someone would explain this stuff to me....anapeptic? It sounds like something for heartburn! arrggggh.....all I know is that it was "pretty"---I blushing hope that will do!