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Today's poem:
Excerpt from the Rubaiyat
- by Omar KhayyamWhat is the world? A caravanserai,
A pied pavilion of night and day;
A feast whereat a thousand Jamshids sat,
A couch whereon a thousand Bahrams lay. -
Peach Rose
or
Transience in Peach
Three short poems constructed from a 12-link #Rengay (original poem in reply)
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This Moment – Lost
a thought of beauty strikes me
#1987 #Beauty #ContemplativePoetry #creativeStruggle #emptiness #fleetingBeauty #fragileBeauty #grief #humanExperience #impermanence #inspiration #longing #loss #lyricalPoetry #missedMoment #Pain #poeticReflection #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Sorrow #transience #vanishedMoment #void #weeping #Writing #youthPoetry
and I must express it so
but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,
a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.
my hand closes
around nothing,
void,
and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.
and I weep
for the passing moment.
it will never come again.
not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.
May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026) -
„What Light Leaves Behind“ (2024)
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A thin sheet of ice seals a roadside puddle, marked by fine white lines and soft fractures. It suggests how quickly form appears, and how quietly it lets go.
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Life requires change, and change brings excitement, even on a molecular level, as we all know. This excitement permeates through your ambivalence; it affects you, it becomes one with you, it becomes a warbler. No, this warbler is just another structure within you. It becomes a song of a warbler— brief and beautiful— Hooo- hokekyo, hooo- hokekyo.
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We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
[μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/
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Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
[Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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