<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kairos - For Spicer Who 'told me not</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">one will not win readers by cursing <br>the darkness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that's already in the canon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">too many ears are hurt from such an age</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lost its ability to hear beyond crash </div><div style="margin:10px 0">nor sit still long enough to see<br>what sun may rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even that belief, 'sunrise' <br>is failing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">stars are falling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">raging ones</div><div style="margin:10px 0">gaze only at themselves<br>bereft of capacities to </div><div style="margin:10px 0">gaze for<br>or even </div><div style="margin:10px 0">toward<br>an other</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one cannot reify thunder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">selves ARE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">redundantly so</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">so many pages torn out<br>a pear tree forgets only itself as<br>an audacity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">limbs recall themselves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">appear to reach</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one cannot see them<br>reaching</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they may be silent but <br>we cannot know that toward <br>later sweetness they yearn <br>then seed a still dirt around</div><div style="margin:10px 0">content to lie down<br>the idea of 'pear tree' reduces <br>to all sparks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no illusion of darkness<br>hastens the pear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But O it tastes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>**</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Kairos is the passing moment in which something happens as the time unfolds...it is a small window of becoming and opportunity. One of the origins of the word comes from shepherds watching the stars. As the night progresses and the stars turn in the sky, they appear to rise and then fall against the horizon. The moment when a star has reached its apogee and appears to change direction from ascending to descending is its kairos.' -Corrigall, J, Payne, H, Wilkinson, <br>H (eds) , About A Body,2006: pg.201</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</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=535611" data-title="Kairos - For Spicer Who 'told me not de Warren Falcon" data-description="one will not win readers by cursing the darkness that's already in the canon too many ears are hurt from such an age lost its ability to hear beyond crash nor sit still long enough to see what sun may rise even that belief, 'sunrise' is fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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