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You Were There, and other poems - 1. There for once

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Poem No. 1

 

Prelude:

Tanka

 

He talked golf, just golf –

and talked, that student of mine –

so why did I feel

so taken, so overwhelmed

by so pure a thing as love.

 

 

Poem:

 

There for once, I failed to fail.

For that emotion without reason

would not be stopped by blocks of time

nor thoughts’ sluggish procrastination.

I for once, was free of what they freed,

and I became then none but them.

 

Don’t believe that suddenly I

was what I had never been before;

it wasn’t that manner of miracle.

 

It was just that suddenly I was

not a meek to my capacity;

the things I felt weren’t foreign

but the very best of me.

 

For once there, I had failed to fail.

I had achieved what I hadn’t sought,

and pity, and sympathy

were, for once, the greatest part of me.

 

 

Postlude:

Tanka

 

Though not born from him,

through him, freedom overtook;

while it suffered soon,

one day it will sustain me,

for reasonless love is best.

 

 

 

 

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Parker Owens

I read this once, twice and again over, savoring it on successive assays. The middle stanzas

Don’t believe that suddenly I

was what I had never been before;

it wasn’t that manner of miracle.

  

It was just that suddenly I was

not a meek to my capacity;

the things I felt weren’t foreign

but the very best of me.

strike home as being most real to me. This is perhaps the best description of a true miracle to be found in poetry. Bravo, molto bravo! 

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On 5/8/2024 at 9:52 AM, chris191070 said:

Beautiful 

Thanks, Chris. You've touched me ❤️

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On 5/8/2024 at 10:53 AM, ReaderPaul said:

Wow.  This one takes some thought.  Good one.

Thank you, ReaderPaul. You've recently read the oratorio based on your namesake's letter to the Romans . . . seems to me this poem is sort of in the same wheelhouse as that much-larger work  

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On 5/8/2024 at 12:30 PM, Parker Owens said:

I read this once, twice and again over, savoring it on successive assays. The middle stanzas

 

Don’t believe that suddenly I

was what I had never been before;

it wasn’t that manner of miracle.

  

It was just that suddenly I was

not a meek to my capacity;

the things I felt weren’t foreign

but the very best of me.

strike home as being most real to me. This is perhaps the best description of a true miracle to be found in poetry. Bravo, molto bravo! 

Thanks, Parker. Your praise is most generous, and I humbly thank you. Maybe it wants to be a motet . . . ? :yes: 

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