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· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

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· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Truth is One


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· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

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But An Audience

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- Consideration while viewing a video of dust settling on attic cobwebs. One can’t help but see the allegorical irony in Carl Sagan’s famous poster of the cosmos and the tiny dot representing earth: “You are here”. (Image by NASA Pillars of Creation)

Tuesday, March 2, 2021


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But An Audience

To be that
Which knows from where it came
Knows the reality-hard past whose dust
It now imbues with reflection
As light beams bathe
Floating detachments free
Coming to rest on silent seas of peace

To know laughter learned its way
By hardened experience
Before it might relax into ripples of solitude

Oh to accept such a shimmer
Smile as eight legged innocence does
Fold into compliance
Await and dream
Just as a dust mite's next iteration
Knows Earth’s existence
Is but an audience of accretions
In creativity’s grand continuum

 



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Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on March 3, 2021
what you have said here gives one a reason to reflect on their own questions

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on March 3, 2021
The whole universe seems to know and understand the realities at stake, even the dust mote, that "settles down" into its own peace. Only humanity tries to out-thing the universe and in doing so, makes a muddle of the obvious reality. Your words stir reflections.


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