I find it so exciting when meeting someone who has the inner fire for understanding, a willingness to wrestle and search, converse and allow oneself to be entertained, amazed, enlightened and awed.I experienced this excitement in the meeting of a cello…
poetry
Visionaries (The language of roses)
Here is another poem that captures my attention
Visionaries
(In Memory of Mary Rudge)
Seekers of the exotic,
riders of water and wind,
shapers of jewels and images,
builders of bridges/breakthroughs,
explorers of Mars, the psyche,
artists, students,
celebrants, elders,
embryos this moment conceived—
whatever we will be in an hour,
tomorrow, a hundred years
or at the last turn of the earth
under moonlight’s incantations,
whatever comes
may we lean toward
the language of roses.
-Claire J. Baker
from San Francisco Peace and Hope (A literary journal devoted to poetry and art)
Steve Eulberg's Poetry and Writing Blog 2016-08-06 05:48:00
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