With the Certainty of the Day

 

On this our darkest night,

aurora stains the mountains red,

the impatient blade of morning

bleeds the starlight pale.

No staunch defence

could stem such blackness bled,

nor bar the shaft of golden day,

that all of life should fail.

 

And once so sure, our hearts entwined

beat the very same,

that spinning in their union

no imposter could unbind.

Yet still the blade of cursed time

split the veil and came

that all which once would always be

was lost to never find.  

 

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David RL Moore

Mon 3rd Mar 2025 07:44

Thank you Helene, much appreciated.

David RL Moore

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David RL Moore

Sun 2nd Mar 2025 18:16

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your comment, very much appreciate your reading and taking time. I'm not accepting your self deprecation though, everyone has something of value to offer...you certainly have.

Thanks Graham,

I appreciate your comment and have to agree, in some respect it has an element of the classical about it, although possibly a little rough around the edges. I've maybe been diving into Blake a little too much lately.

Incidentally, I watched "A Complete Unknown" last night and very much enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed the story didn't progress beyond his Newport Folk Festival performance, I guess his story is so vast it would have required a few more hours to tell.

David RL Moore

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Hélène

Sun 2nd Mar 2025 12:49

A lovely lyrical poem. To me, it felt like morning dawning, stealing the precious night from people who were to be separated forever. A sense of loss and sadness.

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Robert Mann

Sun 2nd Mar 2025 12:12

Too good for my humble thought to spoil the page.

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Graham Sherwood

Sun 2nd Mar 2025 11:31

'the impatient blade of morning
bleeds the starlight pale'

The poem has a somewhat classical feel to it, a lilt, a balance.

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David RL Moore

Sun 2nd Mar 2025 09:41

Thanks again Landi,

And thanks for the link.

I think this poem has sunk and is on its way to the coastal caves of hulls and skulls.

David RL Moore

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Landi Cruz

Sat 1st Mar 2025 14:46

Good point about expressions of the subconscious--they are both in egress from us and in the reflections of the world as we see it. I'm sure there are many psychologists and philosophers who could phrase this concept more eloquently than I...

"The optimist sees a glass that’s half full. The pessimist sees a glass that’s half empty. An engineer sees a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be."

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A lecture on individual differences in human behavior by Robert Sapolsky, 2002 winner of The Emperor Has No Clothes Award--
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4yZT7QoTyt3EY8zrE7e5ds?si=hTFCWq3XR-GAY9pfcLFQhg

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David RL Moore

Sat 1st Mar 2025 07:46

Thanks for your reading and comment Landi.

Having written this with my own personal idea of its meaning, I recognise now that it has multiple possible interpretations.

I am satisfied when this happens as it gives me an opportunity to delve into my own sub-consciense.

David RL Moore

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Landi Cruz

Fri 28th Feb 2025 16:57

an apocalyptic vision

a reminder that time is moving swiftly on--waste not the day...

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David RL Moore

Fri 28th Feb 2025 14:29

Thank you to Tom, Aisha and Flyntland for the likes on this one.

David RL Moore

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