Let the wild ones lead us into glory
on stormcloud rivers in the sky that speak with thunder
of the floodplains feeding from their currents
A crescent land of moon and stars
distorted by the raging waters
where we go to become immortal
and return home to the death that awaits us
ready to rage against the shadow storms
bleak despair like a sickness in the sky
rains falling black from out of the floodlands
The sun will shine upon our home again
when we pry the sky apart and send out a seer
to take hold of a wayward infinity
and cast it down to this place beyond the rivers
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There’s a line in the movie Breathless (1960) that has stayed with me ever since I first watched it. A writer is being interviewed by a group of reporters. One of the reporters asks him: “What is your greatest ambition in life?” and he answers, “To become immortal… and then die.”
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14 responses to “Immortal Skies”
What a great line and prompt for another great poem!
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It definitely is! The whole movie is great.
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Doing something not understandable is the motivation that is running around with terrorism in the “different” portion of infinity. In the area where things are not “different”, I am interested in doing what can be done, doing it forever and having it added to again and again. I like that you have written about the seer. Have you met yours? Sight conduction is what this area of life is also known as. Everything is related.
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I haven’t yet, who knows if I will! True that there are some things happening around us that are impossible for most to comprehend.
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Relating to Breathless…Some people do die over and over again forever…not interesting as an immortal existence, but allowed to be their reality. The truth is there is no such thing as an ending and that everything continues.
I love to write something intereting, maybe next time.
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A cool way of looking at things for sure.
Looking forward to reading what you write!
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Another Wowza poem…every line brilliant perfection (I’m becoming quite redundant).
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Ha! Never. Thank you as always, I appreciate your support (:
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Most welcome 🙂
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That sums up every artist ever lol
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True! To be one of the few…
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Beautiful one.
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Thanks so much (:
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