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THE WONDER OF BEING

  THE WONDER OF BEING Quietly I listened to a silent world Awake around me As slowly The morning rays crept streaming Through Shattering dark shades of the night The palpitating rhythm of humanity A light That filled my soul Others Just moments away Beyond my window pane All part of one beat of the heart The sweet  noise of  shared destiny The wonder of being A glorious and sorrowful mystery This Our mortality
— Geremia, Mar 27, 2009

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Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

17 years 2 months ago

Again you make us weightless

In your poetry, as if floating in the steam of morning, warm from bed, the 'frost-smoke' rising off the lakes and sea; the becoming disintegrated in this concrete world of ordinariness, and sweeping the drapes aside you see into the visions of another world, a world apart from this our earthly clod, one in the mind like that of God. Annuccia.
Kailashana

Kailashana

17 years 2 months ago

purple thistle, serpent

purple thistle, serpent venom silent green canopy sunlit daffodil we see through shadowed eyes mortal coils unwinding Love your words, Joe. Always in gratitude, Anna "We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. And when you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal." Paulo Coelho