dr_con Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Strands There are stories never told narratives unravel and manifest in peculiar ways often we are focused on waves when the deeps care little about the shores sundering craigs into rocks broken over time The truth is pebbles and exoskeletons inevitably become sand And the Sages say Infinity even there just one stranded isolated grain My daughter on a pier looks like her mother but she laughs like me and when I hold a fishing pole or see the surface of a lake while loons and eagles congress above the bass trout and frogs I see with my father’s eyes and grip cork with my grandfather’s hold While the Snapping Turtle says You have more in common with me and a carrot braided at a depth your tales of woe and betrayal can not contain Why settle for complaint? What Love in its wisdom has undone. Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 A nicely philosophical piece. I smiled at the Snapping Turtle ( its belligerence and longevity), reminds me of making a will and being told not to try and look over the horizon. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Thanks G! Yes indeed, I had similar thoughts upon seeing that hulking beast, possibly far less poetic and kind! ;-) Juris Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 A poem in itself: when the deeps care little Daughter like mother AND father, father like his father and grandfather.....all sparks of one divine? Mighty gnostic of you, Juris Man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Indeed Doc! Yes a light gnosis was indeed :-) influencing this. Thank you! Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Another one that keeps drawing me back. "Craig" in stanza one keeps making me think of an on-line service - don't miss that one. I keep thinking that first stanza is the best one and that I am starting to lose thread somewhere around the snapping turtle, but I'm not so sure. Interesting work, doc. I'll tease this one out, too. Thanks, - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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