<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mystic Journey: Earth 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the moon is an immortal soul which breathes life<br>into the earth, and life, in its ebb and flow<br>waxes and wanes with breaths of seasons. to know<br>the moon's mind is to understand life on earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into the first full moon of the auspicious<br>Year of the Rooster you disappeared, into the<br>living dead of unconscious winter. the relentless<br>snow stretched like skin over lakes and fields</div><div style="margin:10px 0">buried cold, bony ground in bright veil of ice.<br>ice was everywhere. the arteries of rivers<br>clotted, frozen air stuck in silver trees. sap<br>stored below ground, nature cocooned coma, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the lifeless world was timeless too the day they<br>packed thorsby* church. pale clouds crowded<br>like heavy canvas sack the bloodless sky, <br>dull gray sunlight drained from blank pupil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all but a few black winter birds were fled.<br>a sun-streaked cat kept lip of the parish door.<br>friends flocked before your flowered casket.<br>a frocked minister stood behind the pulpit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">intoning; all great feeling is grave. feelings<br>were expressed, and suppressed. families<br>gathered, then scattered. you, felled wood<br>robbed of root, dried grain bled of blood, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">mirrored blood lines back. in death you<br>resembled your father; he, no doubt, his.<br>before you were born, you were: after your<br>death, you are. you became your ancestors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*thorsby, alberta, canada</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Doug+Bentley">Doug Bentley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369328" data-title="Mystic Journey: Earth 1 de Doug Bentley" data-description="the moon is an immortal soul which breathes life into the earth, and life, in its ebb and flow waxes and wanes with breaths of seasons. to know the moon's mind is to understand life on earth. into the first full moon of the auspicious Year of the..."></div> </div> </div>

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