Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the role of imagination in epiphanies.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forever is not merely time unending.

It simply is, outside of space and time.

For us, who cannot be except in motion,

The eternal is like color to the blind,

Yearning without hope of comprehension.

 

There is, however, beauty in the notion.

What one imagines, one can be, depending

On powers resident in every mind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/forev6.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending