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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2005-03-20 08:52 PM

To Celebrate the Equinox ... again ...
Since its been 2 or 3 years ago ...

Somewhere over the western Pacific,
at noon, mean solar time,
the fierce tropical Sun
recrossed the equator.
No one was there
or saw it happen,
only the open ocean
and the sky.
For an instant both hemispheres
would equally be lit.
For a day
both Dark and Light
would last the same ...
but only for a day.
Then the planet kept on tilting
in the plane of its ecliptic,
before, perhaps,
realizing its mistake,
tilting back into position
in the spring,
though forever overdoing it,
always wobbling,
this way and that.

The moons and planets
are also swinging in their circles,
Rocking and dancing,
back and forth,
along their cosmic traces;
just as they have
in the several billion years
since their formation,
just as they will
for millions of years more,
til the Sun burns out its nuclear core,
swells in a final crimson burst
of heat and Light,
before at last collapsing on itself,
leaving, in its fiery wake,
the cold eternal blackness
of interstellar Night.

And the great cosmic Wheel of Space and Time
Turns on.

SC

sweetpoetess
Member

since 2005-02-27

Posts 428
Florida

1 posted 2005-03-20 09:09 PM

Enjoyed the read.

Poetry is beauty in words.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2005-03-20 09:13 PM

No one was there
or saw it happen,
only the open ocean
and the sky.

~*~

Jaime, you knew how much
I would enjoy this...

You knew how much it means
to be present equally...

if only for a moment.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2005-03-20 09:36 PM

Once again, believe this is one of your best writes, Jaime. And it's one I never tired of re-reading and pondering.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2005-03-20 11:43 PM

Jaime

So well done!

"And the great cosmic Wheel of Space and Time
Turns on."

Indeed it does!

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

5 posted 2005-03-21 08:45 AM

Hi, Jaime! That was a stellar ~ or should I say "solar" ~ poem! It was an informative and magnificent piece of writing and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Hugs with love,
EA

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