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Aftermath

Many currents conspire to bring us into meaningful contacts here on the planet...and days will come (perhaps not while we are actually alive) when all these sunlit days and grave conversations with fellow travelers maybe downloaded as one luminous file. That day has not come yet and we plod on, foot soldiers in humanity's universal quest for meaning. As Jean-Paul Sartre said: When I act, I act for all mankind. It sounds grandiose, but I think he was catching that essential and rare insight that we all have our place; and that there is a place, and an allotted time and space on the stage for everything. What did T.S. Eliot say? "Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging; You are not those who saw the harbour Receding, or those who will disembark. Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. At the moment which is not of action or inaction You can receive this"

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Aftermath

Many currents conspire to bring us into meaningful contacts here on the planet...and days will come (perhaps not while we are actually alive) when all these sunlit days and grave conversations with fellow travelers maybe downloaded as one luminous file. That day has not come yet and we plod on, foot soldiers in humanity's universal quest for meaning. As Jean-Paul Sartre said: When I act, I act for all mankind. It sounds grandiose, but I think he was catching that essential and rare insight that we all have our place; and that there is a place, and an allotted time and space on the stage for everything. What did T.S. Eliot say? "Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging; You are not those who saw the harbour Receding, or those who will disembark. Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. At the moment which is not of action or inaction You can receive this"

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Poem written in or near Tbilisi, May 24th 2015

Aftermath
The clamour of a thousand images
Resonates, still, in my brain :
Cityscape with niches and rushed
Contingent traffic;
Context for an exploration and a re-inking
Of friendly boundaries
Sleep at last and still this din
Of unanswered questions and explorations;
Familiar, almost, and forever strange.
A sunlit Sunday of quiet intimacy.
Events emerge, shrill and unbidden
From the pianissimo string passages of life :
Wagnerian horns in Rustaveli.
Markings in the score Lennie Bernstein
Would know to observe. And yet
Traffic of the dead, no longer in this game
And whispering in my ear.

Poignancy with hope and disillusion ever mixed


From this bright May day
With a fervent beating heart
And yet in a positive sense I will sleep ;
For it, I shall shed every tear.

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