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One's Brief Shimmer

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Consideration pauses while viewing a video of dust settling on attic cobwebs. One can’t help but see the allegorical irony in Carl Sagan’s iconic poster of the cosmos and the tiny dot representing earth: “You are here.” One’s Brief Shimmer

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 existence
Is but a shimmer
In creation's grand continuum.




Saturday, July 31, 2021


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One’s Brief Shimmer

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 existence
Is but a shimmer
In creation's grand continuum.

 


 

 



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on August 1, 2021
In that sense, an ant probably knows more than we do as it goes efficiently about its business. Even if we do "know" something, it doesn't matter unless that knowledge is internalized into the very core of our being and then comes back out of us as realized, like the ant, who knows what to do and how to do it.

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on August 1, 2021
Looking back at Earth from space puts most things (about humans) in a sobering perspective. Our lives like a weak and tremulous light shimmering momentarily. Thankfully though, there is always something to be thankful for while we're here. Thanks. Enjoyed. rlc


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