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WindWalker
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since 2001-10-12
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0 posted 2006-04-21 10:12 AM


I hear the wild ocean pounding
upon a very ancient shore,
its waves crashing and thundering
shaking rocks and rattling stones,
dragging the earth back into itself:
I hear the thunder as lightning
whips unruly clouds wildly driven
by swirling winds.

Yet, upon that shore I can stand
Alone, naked and unafraid – touch
that wild ocean's back with fingertips,
'til it lays purring at my feet,
caressing the shore gently;
'til the sun comes out,
‘til the clouds turn white,
‘til the breeze whispers softly through my hair.

In that storm, there is great strength:
A movement of shaping, creation in toil,
majestic, wondrous changes being wrought.
Did it destroy? No, only a creative spasm,
Birth pang of mother earth, evolution,
A way of continuance, endless change:
Not power, nor death, but eternal life –
in eternal motion!

Daily I witness another storm
Full of brute power, savagery, unstoppable:
imprinting deepening scars upon the earth,
fueled by wild unreason and demented minds,
darkened by lure of greed, by lust, by ego gone mad.

I try to tame this one with love also
but it lunges madly at my extended empty hands,
attacks, tears and leaves me to die
among its legacy of dread and death,
to rot amidst shards, shreds, shatterings
of expiring life it sends flowing
down a polluted river Styx:

The power storm whose epicenter
holds so deathly still, so confident
in every boardroom of every land.

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inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392
Ohio
1 posted 2006-04-21 10:36 AM


The power storm whose epicenter
holds so deathly still, so confident
in every boardroom of every land.

YES, most pertinent in this time of world

StevenS
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since 2005-09-21
Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)
2 posted 2006-04-21 10:46 AM


Wow again WindWalker, I love this one! Mighty mighty fine! :-)
ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
3 posted 2006-04-21 05:37 PM


As even handed as fate, the rules of Darwin dictate.

In love, there is the kindest of change...
Well done!
TD

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