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The Traveler In one sense we're all travelers. The only difference, in the end, being the various mementos we bring home with us. |
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Alternately The Traveler. |
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Imaginative Minds A poet once said to me that poetry has only a couple of subjects: love and relations, time passing and creativity. Just a thought. |
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Alternately Imaginative Minds. |
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Easter Mysteries Easter is, without doubt, mysterious. Not only the resurrection itself but even how the date of this moveable feast is calculated: the Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. And indeed, Spring is visible proof of the perennial return of light and life after cold, dark, winter days. Life, death, the full moon and eternity, all of these things, contribute to the mystery of the time, and the need to ask questions to try to make sense out of it all. |
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poem. Alternately Easter Mysteries. |
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Portals Why can a photograph or painting of something as ordinary as a bowl of fruit amaze the onlooker? Why can a series of musical notes played on a violin bring tears to your eyes? Why can otherwise ordinary words, arranged in a particular order in a poem, seem to open wide the doors of perception? This mystery has preoccupied creative people since Old King Cole was in kindergarten. It has even spawned one or two imaginative works itself. |
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poem. Alternately Portals. |
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Crystal Dreams I think most would agree we live in turbulent times. Then again every generation has surely experienced stormy if not tempestuous spells. What’s more important is how we cope with that heavy weather. Do we grit our teeth, struggle to our feet, leaning into the gale? Do we confidently let the rising water wash over us, in the knowledge that the flood will recede? I think the answer will be different for everyone, but perhaps predictable from how we’ve dealt with rough patches in the past, and what we’ve gleaned from those sometimes tumultuous experiences. |
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Night Fright & Ecstatic These are two nighttime poems written at quite different times but strongly connected. One being saved from a nightmare by a night bird, the other a waking wonderment at one of the most enchanting singers I have ever heard… human or not! |
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poems. Alternately Night Fright & Ecstatic. |
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Reflection The most mysterious aspect of existence is consciousness. What is it that makes us aware of being alive, of being loving, breathing, sentient creatures? This question—or one similar—has preoccupied philosophers, priests and poets since King Solomon was a boy. These verses are my attempt, if not to find an answer, then to phrase the question in a better way for myself and possibly others. |
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poem. Alternately Reflection. |
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Just Motionless and Lost Some things wash up on the shore, some fall out of the sky. Beachcomber, rock hunter or poet pick up the debris. |
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poem. Alternately Just Motionless and Lost. |
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a midsummer night's
dream...
Sleep |
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poem. Alternately Sleep. |
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