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Reflection Feb 18, 2012 1:13:55 GMT -5

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Post by aam4e on Feb 18, 2012 1:13:55 GMT -5

MY COUNTRY…

Somewhere near the centre, out on the way to the middle

Lined by desert heat and rugged unforgiving earth

I saw the wonder and felt the prize captured in the land

Harsh rocky outcrops rolling tumble fodder and rich red sand

I felt the dreaming of this earth as the grains of sand soon spoke

I felt the air reveal its wonder unlacing layers of hidden smoke

Vision engulfing my entire core and my eternal being

The sun it spoke, the clouds they talked,

In an arrangement of an internal seeing

Resonating within this frame no part bigger than the next

Layer upon delicate layer a precession of secrets well kept

The unity of the function, the networking so complete

Inter-dependence and independence all captured within the web

Rolling seasons, waxing moons, a land quite alive – not dead

Despite man’s best efforts this country still lives to dream

So harsh and cruel a treatment from a mother’s youngest son

A tragic tale of love gone wrong and humanity stripped away

Laid to waste by the foul and weak all remains of the day

How could a mother trust again could she ever face our way?

And if we could ever move forward, what would we ever say?

20 – 10 – 2011

Please let me know what you think of this I have a lot more where that came from. I have a blog have a look if you like what you see it's aam4e.theblogger.com.au

johan Echoes Family Member Just me:The Watering Place of Good Peace can only be the long sleep of eternity. Posts: 4,464	Reflection Feb 20, 2012 13:22:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by johan on Feb 20, 2012 13:22:41 GMT -5 Welcome to Echoes my friend, great piece enjoyed this. Johan
	The Sad Sailor. Poetry by Johan (Andrew Shiston) can be found as a guest poet on the excellent site of writer and published poet JB Stillwater. www.jbstillwater.com Johan voted poet of the year 2007. My book 'A Bay of Skeletons' is now on sale at Author House My new book 'Diary of a Merchant Seaman' is now being published, out in the spring published by Casa De Snapdragon. JBStillwater (Jan

rrw Echoes Family Member You gotta move Posts: 5,998	Reflection Feb 21, 2012 16:24:13 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rrw on Feb 21, 2012 16:24:13 GMT -5 welcome, M4. I love the colors of the piece... nice use of describing the beauty and life of something that many would consider dead and ugly. A nobility to this piece.

The Great Fulcanelli Echoes Full Member "Magic is the means by which we transform our own consciousness." Posts: 241	Reflection Feb 22, 2012 2:06:51 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Great Fulcanelli on Feb 22, 2012 2:06:51 GMT -5 Well written poem on the relationship between man and his world. It seems that whatever we have, we will never have enough of it...
	"The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be consumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve." — Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der Technik

thomasruffin Echoes Member Posts: 30	Reflection Feb 26, 2012 22:05:59 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by thomasruffin on Feb 26, 2012 22:05:59 GMT -5 descriptive yet cryptic, nice imagery at the same time prophetic
	"... at the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" Plato

rrw Echoes Family Member You gotta move Posts: 5,998	Reflection Feb 27, 2012 11:52:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rrw on Feb 27, 2012 11:52:43 GMT -5 Reread this and loved it more. there's a well crafted like that stuck with me: The unity of the function Like this line a lot.