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Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2002-01-06 03:50 PM

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 though 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 sent us all 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 aplomattax,
on all the fabled cities
of the past.
The Inca and Egyptians
built their temples for the Sun.
The ancient Greeks
traced the shadow of the noonday Sun
to measure the circle of the Earth,
as well
as the circle of the Moon.
And even Early Man,
"pittiful, 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 tides ran higher,
and the Moon
was not so far away,
and the Earth
spun faster in its circle,
and all the stars
were in the wroung 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 even 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 humankind be long since dead,
or gone to seed,
that the Earth
will still be spinning,
the tides
will still be sweeping,
the glaciers,
still coming and going,
the seasons,
still ebbing and flowing,
the Sun,
still rising and setting,
the Moon,
still waxing and waning,
and the stars,
still tracing their ecliptic arcs
through astronomic spans of Time
ans space.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2002-01-06 04:19 PM

Jaime,
it never ceases to amaze me that no matter what's happening in my life the sun also rises and is there to greet meet. You captured the constancy of the sun very well.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2002-01-06 04:23 PM

Jaime, how you've touched me with this one...this is beautiful, and I am very pleased with your talent to portray that which so many take for granted each day in a simple "sunrise, sunset"...

May your sun always shine...

Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

3 posted 2002-01-06 04:44 PM

Kethry. Tank you.
Let's see, since it daytime here ...
it must be nightime there?
Can you see the burning of Australia? eee eee?
:--)
Jaime
... and what can I do with the Suns th
And with both Sunshine and Midnitesun illuminating me,
how could I fail to find the Way?

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

4 posted 2002-01-06 05:34 PM

STANDING OVATION!!!!!STUNNING.....Jaime, you have brought to life memories of the many times things were not going well in my life and still the sun shone brightly warming my heart so that somehow things felt just a little better. Thank you, thank you for such a wonderful poem. **big hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2002-01-06 06:41 PM

I am smiling at this, and feeling the Sun in your words shining through the thick clouds today. Jaime, your heart is always full of warm sunshine, and the midnitesun always beams for you, even on the darkest winter nights. It's amazing how we take for granted the sun will rise and the sun will set, and its been doing it without our participation for so long. HUGS and KISSES, HI ME, K

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

6 posted 2002-01-06 09:34 PM

CLAPPING WILDLY!!! OH MY GOSH, I LOVE IT, THIS IS OUTSTANDING!!! (big hugggssssss) Yes, yes, the sun has always been here for us all, and will always shine with His love when we need hope and faith and to remind ourselves of the promises life gives us, and together, may we all harmonize to each other and find our place in the sun! (kiss on cheek) I LOVE IT!!! God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Jaime, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2002-01-06 10:45 PM

revised??

well, more like "reseen". . .

I like this. . . the idea that some things will always be. . . well done. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

8 posted 2002-01-09 01:43 PM

And even Early Man,
"pittiful, his arms full of twigs,"
saw and felt
the same Sun shining,
on his raw and hostile world.

Let the sun keep shining on you and your muse, to warm us all.

May the ripple of LOVE
become the wave of PEACE

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