<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina/Creation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When all supply was in the hands of Cause, <br>Effect was molten primal chaos, held<br>Within a universal cauldren, rest<br>Was given to consider what the blend<br>Would yield. What distillation might there come<br>When left to steep upon the flame of time? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What essence to be poured or spooned, when time<br>Had separated dross from grime; When Cause <br>Congealed Effect as form? What shape would come? <br>Omniscience knew the liqued luster held<br>Within an orbed mold to cool, would blend<br>A tear so pure, that Genesis could rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An orb within the plumbless steep, no rest<br>Was had as crystal creep began. In time<br>A metamorphic stress; a grinding blend<br>Of blasting heaves had splayed the plates to cause<br>The core to spill its viscous blaze. Not held, <br>A spew and fall of flaming rock had come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As fluid land had ceased to flow, then come<br>Awaking, as purpose changed the rest<br>Of earth's most fragil face. Creation held<br>Expressive mind as conscious force, with time, <br>Embraced the law of Cosmic Will to cause<br>The 'Seeds of Season' to sprout forth and blend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Profound, prestine, profusion was its blend<br>Of manifest raw beauty. Light had come, <br>Divine desire had found demension. Cause<br>Became the tangible of thought. The rest<br>Of thought, the fractured Self of God, In time, <br>As Souls, would pierce the veil of flesh then held.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within the folded fist of night dawn held<br>Ignited eastern skies, until the blend<br>Of feathered morning light with time.<br>Through Holy Emulation, life would come<br>As reasoning pushed out, first breath, then rest, <br>Effect emerged as man, awakened Cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Creative Reason held the souls to come.<br>His law combined with Will, would blend the rest<br>Of mortal clay, with time, to temple Cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</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=450608" data-title="Sestina/Creation de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="When all supply was in the hands of Cause, Effect was molten primal chaos, held Within a universal cauldren, rest Was given to consider what the blend Would yield. What distillation might there come When left to steep upon the flame of time? Wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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