Drinking Alcohol taught me how to fly
Then it took away the sky....

Monday, October 21, 2013

FAR OUT

Published for Open Link Night, 
week #119, in dVerse Poets Pub

Pic Art--click ETERNITY


ETERNITY

do you have a few minutes?
SURE!
wait--are you certain?
how do you know if
there's time to stay...
or is it time to go?

Alpha, Omega

in between EVERYTHING,
this very moment--
it's where Eternity lives.
chocolate cookies,
soft breeze,
kind words, dreams,
hope, love.

below? above?

a loosened leaf 
floats onto grass.
yet ALWAYS is now!

past, future
exist not.

when time 
shall be stripped away,
neither before nor after
 left standing--
eternal, spiritual life
evermore. FOREVER.

no beginning!  no end!

...and joy, 
happiness therein
is but,
and only,
first and last...
--LOVE

--by steveroni
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19 comments:

  1. Brian MillerOctober 22, 2013 at 5:44 AM

    there is eternity in chocolate chip cookies! i knew it! I tried to tell my mom that once....but NO....i could not have another bit of eternity....too much eternity is bad for your teeth evidently....smiles.....

    love is the glue that keeps it all together....though at times it seems like chaos might be to be completely honest with you....we seem to make it that way though...when we forget the other.

    eternity is one of those grand concepts as well that is hard to imagine....

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  2. JohnOctober 22, 2013 at 8:23 AM

    Very well said Steve.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM

    sometimes I try to hold on the time -
    but you can't stop it - it's going on and on...
    Greetings Lilofee

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  4. JinksyOctober 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM

    And 'Love' is always now, if we so choose...

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  5. ^.^October 22, 2013 at 3:06 PM

    Makes me appreciate my nine lives :) meow ... :)

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  6. Alex DissingOctober 22, 2013 at 3:24 PM

    Eternity is a tough concept to wrap the mind around, but this poem made it seem simpler. Maybe it was the sneaky chocolate chip cookie reference :)

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  7. brudbergOctober 22, 2013 at 3:24 PM

    Eternity in cookies? enough eaten I'm sure ... but love is all that we need.. of course .-)

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  8. Susan AndersonOctober 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM

    Amen.

    =)

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  9. AnonymousOctober 22, 2013 at 6:13 PM

    Very thought provoking...and philosophical too!

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  10. ayalaOctober 22, 2013 at 7:14 PM

    Nicely said, my friend. Peace and light to you. :)

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  11. ayalaOctober 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM

    Chocolate chip ? :)

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  12. TruedessaOctober 22, 2013 at 7:16 PM

    The answers are in between everything and love holds it all together..

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  13. MargieOctober 22, 2013 at 8:04 PM

    Love is all there is and all that matters.
    And chocolate chip cookies sound good too.

    Such a nice poem,
    Thank you, Steve

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  14. Kate SoloOctober 22, 2013 at 8:53 PM

    Very, very nice! Oh, eternity is such a nice thought! :-)

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  15. Sharp Little PencilOctober 22, 2013 at 11:45 PM

    I loved every word in this poem, Steve. It's all about the love. Your reminder that the past and future are simply moments in life, so true. And yes, love is a chocolate chip cookie, and now I'm hungry!

    So well put, Steve. One of your best. Amy

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  16. rainfield61October 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM

    I would like to add chocolate ice cream to the list.

    It is never too big to be squeezed between the lines.

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  17. A Plain ObserverOctober 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM

    One of my favorite commercials was from the Seventh Day Adventist some 30 years ago. A boy asks from a tree "Dad, do you have time to help me?" The man looks at him and says "as much as anyone else"
    Good reminder, Steve, that happiness is here, and so is eternity.

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  18. ClaudiaOctober 25, 2013 at 9:01 AM

    love first and last... it changes everything...and is even better than chocolate cookies..right..? smiles though i DO like chocolate cookies...smiles

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