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All things not eternal are echoes ...

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Image Credit Echo by Leila Kubba Kawash 1996

 

EPIGRAPH 
 
As night shifts to lightness,
to enlightenment of daybreak -
From days that end with evening prayers,
whispered invocations into darkening skys,
hopeful vespers, with promises of dawns,
stretching yawns of awakening.

 

Ameera Kawash

 

 

 

 

 

 

All things not eternal are echoes ...

spring is so ephemeral ...

     full of strange juxtapositiions.

        Hey,

               there is all green and blue.

 

Loitering has a reason of its own,
   an agony to dream of in red.
      Hey,

             there is but one season.

 

There is but one stupendous life.
     The Range spreads into its untilled hills
         in the gray area

                                    between night and day.

 

A brief song, and all is ended.
     What kind of need is desirable?
           What kind

                            of passion

 in the transition between awake and sleep?

 

Territory, clean as a bud,

     spreads to its limits.
          Reflection rises from the human spirit,

             breathless.

 

Breezes fade into beds of dark shadows.
      Roads blend into nowhere

            as they wind their forsaken ways.
                Summer here again after

                   the summer before.

 

Beyond it, a foal falls.

 

Young are always born by summer.
       Most living things die before they give birth.
            True.

                 Everything is in flux.

 

The earth works mysteriously beyond

       the world of dreams.
             Mere time fills to its brim

                with unendingness.

 

Somewhere,

                     life appears as dew

   on the tips of grass blades
       waiting for the sun 

                                        then to vanish

 

in the place where

                                 you still remember ...

 

                 dreaming ....

Author notes

Quotes worked in from the contest prompts:
"Everything is in flux." - Heraclitus 500 BCE

"In the grey area between night and day, in the transition between awake and asleep, lies the world of dreams, a world of strange juxtapositions, of fears and loves, of the subconscious desires of the soul." - Leila Kubba Kawash

"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting." - Tinkerbell

[Use the image and quotes to inspire a deep and meaningful poem. I will be looking for mature writes filled with imagery and strength.

No end line rhyme this time.]

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  • Pamela A Lamppa silver member
    April 5, 2008

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    Ahhh. So beautifully done. You have worked the quotes into your piece with style and grace and used the image prompt quite well.

    Colors are brightly used in your poem and evoke emotion. I liked that effect very much. This is truly mature and strong, and it made me feel like there truly is a purpose.

    Your last lines:

    "Somewhere,
    life appears as dew
    on the tips of grass blades
    waiting for the sun
    then to vanish

    in the place where
    you still remember ...

    dreaming .... "


    Are where you have grabbed everything and rolled it out on the red carpet.

    Well done poet. A wonderful entry to this contest. Best of luck in the judging. ~Pamela


  • Lady Altheia gold member
    March 25, 2008

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    Um okay this is weird. It kinda made sense but I didn't feel it was continuous from verse to verse.