Ponderable and poem for Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Alan Harris
Nov 25, 2009, 12:27:56 AM11/25/09
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We depend upon each other for our independence.
Together
There was never a never
so always as forever
nor a permanence
so flimsy as finished.
There was never a happy
so permanent as joy
nor a falseness so
fleeting as autonomy.
Insulation clothes well
till it suffocates,
and protection is safe
till it isolates.
To breathe always joy
let our hearts strive together
most brave toward that space
both above and unknown
where our labor with stones
can build the next temple.
Build we together or
become we the stones.
so always as forever
nor a permanence
so flimsy as finished.
There was never a happy
so permanent as joy
nor a falseness so
fleeting as autonomy.
Insulation clothes well
till it suffocates,
and protection is safe
till it isolates.
To breathe always joy
let our hearts strive together
most brave toward that space
both above and unknown
where our labor with stones
can build the next temple.
Build we together or
become we the stones.
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Alan Harris
You're invited to view two YouTube videos by Ine Braat based on my poems: "Mother's Secret," "Two Windows," and "Seeking until Found."
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