Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

May 14, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spirituality, in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on May 16^th.

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A number poem about how one might commandeer one’s life:

Time passes like a stream in which one stands.

How strange and beautiful! Life goes by

In moments that run through one’s open hands,

Real in ways that none can clarify,

Though like a dream that only seems to be.

Yet every moment is eternity.

So might one commandeer what life commands,

Infinite beyond all how or why,

X upon a calm and windless sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spirituality

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