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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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Good Morning, indeed, Gerard. Act!
And a good morning it is! Thank you, sir.
Too much heroing going on.
Isn’t anyone normal any more?
Powerful.. Gerard, Thank you!
We’re all just Abby Normal,Ghost. 🤠
Wonderful Sunday morning wake-up,thank you Mr V.
Tickles me that the speaker of those powerful words is named Tom O’ Bedlam.
What a great name! Leave it to the Irish…
How did I get Anonymous? Guess I need another cup of Caffeine and Hate.
Awesome.
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,” Has been our toast for well over 15 years when we tip a glass during the break at our life drawing sessions.
& regarding the reader, Tom O’; https://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/2010/07/tom-obedlam-reads-poetry.html
Hah,knew the name was too good to be true! Great link,thank you James.
I’m sorry that I have shitforbrains. All I can think of is how I dated his GGD, who bore the name Longfellow.