WINTER SOLSTICE 12/21/12
THE END OF THE WORLD?
Photo: Liz Corbett (Liz 77 on OS)
There have been, perhaps millions
Of these longest of days
But, this may be last
In a number of ways
Of earth as we know it
Of life gone before
When living through cold
Meant gathering and store
To prevent the starvation
On the long and dark days
The famines of winter
Killed in so many ways.
Now here in this year
Two thousand and twelve
the day of the solstice of winter arrives.
(Though at which precise moment, it is hard to tell)
I was “Just Thinking”
Will the next step be heaven?
Or will it be hell?
Will the “famines of winter”
Mean no air to breath
Or a massive combustible
Orb that will leave
Nothing behind?
Shall I worry of pain
Shall I fear the slaughter?
Will we all go insane
Lacking food and water?
Or wake up to the sun
another day in the life
While humanity continues
a millennium or two
With all that’s within me,
I hope that is true.
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I know it's not...
Brilliant! You have real talent!
(Here's a trick you can use when OS formatting goes wonky: Write and format in Word. Convert your word doc to a jpeg photo. Edit the photo to trim the margins off. Insert that photo in the usual way. Voila! Your formatting!)
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Did you have fun?
~R~
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Sounds like a challenge to live. I am with you, trilogy :
"I hope that is true," too.
Our children and their children are counting on it to be true.
Lovely piece ~ love the sun ~ thank you.
AND (wink wink!) I like that hope remains in your poem.
You know, I'm really, REALLY getting worried 'cos I tried to sit down last night to write and I can't seem to get 'unblocked'! I'm SOOOOO stuck!
JD sure is going to have one heck of a counter-challenge on his hands when I'm done with this one!
Okay, well, I think I'll procrastinate a little more ... AND get my head out of OS AND do get back to work!!!
Stathi: Thanks for the kind words
Skypixie: What a brilliant suggestion. I can't wait to try it.
Mary: Yes, it was fun
Fusun: Thanks - I hope to write more!
Kim, yes it was a challenge to write about the Myan prediction of the end of the world on Dec 21st. I don't expect to be going anywhere.
Little Kate: YOU CAN DO IT!! Now get back to work (wink, wink)
loved that!
and the whole thing--nicely done :)
Thanks for participating and knocking one up against the wall!!!
Truth is, I'm glad JD has challenged me 'cos I need to get past this block but I'm a terrible perfectionist sometimes and I just want to do my utmost best to do this right. I think in the end I'll tell myself what I often tell myself ... "Just write from the heart... "
I figure, better safe than sorry.
R
That Solstice moment 2012 is actually the one moment the rays of sunrise shine right through the "cleft" in the Milky Way that looks like a womb--it's only in this exact place every 25,000+ years, hence the changing of the eras in ancient Maya world. They charted the heavens and knew more than we do now about how affected we are by the movement of the stars and by solar flare cycles...they thought Venus (who's been front and center in the sky lately) was a bad portent....
...eek?