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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    ...a moment that will pass,
    that knows it will pass
    and that is here
    in the act of eluding us.
    This poem is so short, but is consolidated and compacted.

    A suffusion of a great m anythings compressingly.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by firefangled View Post
    not the bottle,
    though the sand that made it
    conspired in its seething,
    nor is the cork
    any more than patience―
    firm and pliable.

    Listen to the decanting,
    but do not be fooled―
    the wine
    is not the poem,
    its redolence warns,
    but its piquancy along a tongue.


    © Copyright, Originally composed and posted on http://www.online-literature.com/for...splay.php?f=14 under the penname firefangled, August 8, 2009
    This is really beautiful

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    prose
    on steroids

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    a poem is...

    the waterboatmen that float on cold coffee lakes
    in the bone white flooded caverns
    behind the back of my mind
    scattered dead on a page

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    Quote Originally Posted by will kilmartin View Post
    the waterboatmen that float on cold coffee lakes
    in the bone white flooded caverns
    behind the back of my mind
    scattered dead on a page
    Wow! And thank you.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post



    ...a sabbath
    for the heart.
    *


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    thankyou sir. this contribution was quite wonderful.

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    ...a thought
    perched at the end of a high-diving board,
    trembling before the expanse
    of water below, trembling
    or thirsty for it, savouring
    in advance the waterless air
    through which it will glide
    on its way
    to some other element.

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    ....a bargain
    snapped up by a shopper
    in the marketplace
    weighed, priced, bagged
    placed in a basket
    next to the bread
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    ....a way for mortal man
    To speak with the gods.
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    A snazzy way of putting down words
    on paper
    without having to go all the way across to the end of the right-hand margin

    H

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    A clipped breath

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    ....the underside
    of logic’s grim domain.

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    a drain
    clogged by filth
    that occasionally backs up
    spewing forth yesterday's toasts
    onto tomorrow's rose gardens.

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