dr_con Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Lessons We Failed to Learn Before The Eclipse Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2024 “Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think” - Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed Too many complications in the dream where we didn’t finish our plans for using The Moon’s Shadow to fly (Until, today, although the unfinished, appeared to be the DAY RESIDUE taking the brunt of our attention, the HANGED MAN whose hatted outline hung suspended above the absented light circle, a circumference of glowing lunarity, with the dry stone tang of impossibly cold rocks, should have immediately suggested, to us upon re-arrival here, the Upcoming Solar Eclipse the words had yet to illuminate themselves as we) were interrupted by living voices complaining, don’t start a poem with a quote do something original, don’t become an airport ghost, where despite the assaults on dignity and desire, we haunt a certain bland immortality, for the privilege of penetrating the winds, as if for a moment we were awkward and dull birds. Last night at the hospital insisted we should choose how we live this eclipse since we can reasonably expect it to be our last and to ignore The Apocalypse Carnies, barking, “This will last! This will last!” when we know with the same certainty of how day will become night and we will be returning, our shadows cease casting and we will resume flying once more. Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 This saddened me. The last time I will see a total eclipse. This is probably very true and to be denied another chance, knowing it will reoccur without me. Something to not be ignored. This poem has my brain jumping all over the place. I'm glad it ended as it did. It felt free. ~~Judi 1 Quote ~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~ For permission to use this work you can write to Tinker1111@icloud.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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