The angels speak amongst themselves concerning the humans scuttling among the tumbled boulders near the first cascade beyond the cirque...
Or perhaps it is humans who speak among themselves concerning the crickets they keep in bamboo cages...
Holy Moment
They too have touched us in this matching of their love, in this last descent. It is here we meet with them most surely, in loving the tiny ones with their rapid hearts and small secret thoughts who leave us so easily and so soon.
"I no longer try to be right. I choose to be happy."
Things do change in an instant. On Mother's Day the 17 year old daughter of one of my co-workers killed her father and left her mother in serious condition in the hopsital. An instant....
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years.
Contact: 3topper45@gmail.com
love the words. as always, simple with a wonderful meaning.
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ReplyDeleteThings do change in an instant. On Mother's Day the 17 year old daughter of one of my co-workers killed her father and left her mother in serious condition in the hopsital. An instant....
thank you:)
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