Cascades of Eternity

A heartbeat contains infinite tangents, 

all charade as the long walk home, 

each giggling through it’s own disguise. 

Walk with me a while, 

for yes I too am one of your tangents.

We can watch butterflies dance in tune 

to the spring breeze, 

Close your eyes.

Feel the same breeze reach our and caress your face, 

lulling you into enamored bliss. And now,

notice the flutter of air from butterflies wings upon your cheek… 

You can you know,

if that’s the tangent you choose to follow.

Take my hand without clasping,

fall into the waterfall of spirit that flows between us 

The same waterfall who cascades and

serenades in sweet whispers,

reminding the universe of its harmony with self. 

You too are the universal self …

And when you emerge from bathing in the waterfall, 

emerge as the waterfall, 

serve you, the waterfall, up in reckless abandon.

Don’t damn it up with rocks, don’t make your own lake, 

don’t keep a reservoir for safe keeping.

The spirit of that waterfall, 

that runs through you is love, 

and love, 

when given, 

multiplies …

Don’t stash it away for a rainy day. 

And when you notice your heartbeat,

and you observe all the tangents, 

return to the waterfall,

for the waterfall, 

the spirit, 

the flow, 

has always been home.

Reviews

[h d e rushin]

"Don't damn it up with rocks, don't make your own lake, don't keep a reservoir for safe keeping". You are being metaphoric here emma in that amenable kind of way. Fate never waits for judgment to reconcile that part of love that life leaves off. Live in the moment.......is what I take from this.

but you write love poetry which means that
every stanza is ambulacral to the one that precededs it. Wonderfully thought out and wonderfully written......dana

[KWP]

Hi Dana and lovely to meet you :) yes ... this was a funny stream of consciousness that just popped out in the moment ... happens like that doesn't it, whatever thought may be putting picket sign in your brain at that present moment ... they are the ones we choose to listen to ... unless of course we learn to watch them pass on by with a big old loving wave X

[emmajoy]

Your words stretch far, far out into space and its thought gathering. (Have always considered that space being vast as it is, is where our thoughts linger til they're needed .. or not)

Love is what it is. A telling story of giving what is most sacred: breath itself wrapped around both heart and mind. When we find the feeling that drowning in someone's love is the ultimate.. then.. that waterfall you gently mention, washes away all thought of others and other times.

Your writing has become a mix of passion and the spiritual.. certainly in this pure beauty. Will come back to it because i need to. Its many roads curve and climb.. even though they converge.. eventually... ' .. for the waterfall, the spirit,
the flow, has always been home. '

[KWP]

Hello you - well I haven't been writing much of late. Been focussing on other things - you know how it goes. But bring a smile to my face you did - always a treasure to see you and know that you too are cascading through time and space right next to me really :) XXX Love to you Chick X

[emmajoy]

Hello, says I, waving like crazy! Things been up and down over here but, always words at the back of my mind and reading yours really gets the juices going because there are so many tangents to read, consider... and if i might say very honestly.. benefit from.

Hope your life is as beautiful as your writing. That you and your family have a wonderful summery Christmas with lunch al fresco and little or no need to warm your tootsies!

Happy days and songs of praise this moment and in infinitum (took me half an hour to type that last word!)

[KWP]

took me half an hour to read that word :)

we will have prawns on the BBQ accompanied with numerous salads oh yes al fresco with all the family bobbling around (plus my 92 year old neighbour).

Yes the tangents - we need to remind ourselves constantly which ones are worth devoting time too and which ones should just sail past as we say 'see ya later' ...

ahh it's fleeting this life - let's just dedicate ourselves to flourishing shall we?

X LOVE TO YOU SISTA X

[Tom]

Superb binary and comparison... a fact indeed, we cannot survive as a race without the combined elements of both properties of the physical and emotional...

Yes indeed, water is the elixir of life, a quite unique and unquestionably vital liquid component. Love too, is an emotion that sustains harmony and equilibrium throughout humanity...So embrace yourself in both with enthusiasm!

[KWP]

Hey There Tom :)

Thanks for the read - more a flow of thought that turned into water somehow :) Happy Holidays X

[Giulia King]

Love this poem! So vivid and colorful :)

[HeyJadeXO]

Captures the journey of love very well. True love is such a worthwhile path =]

[Valentine]

Happy are those fortunate enough to find true and lasting love. If more people took that long walk looking for that special someone there might be less divorces and more happy families. Valentine

[wordman]

only true love and time will bring such closeness ,a never ending waterfall of emotions

[Einstein Noodle]

powerful first verse my friend! love the ..it put me on a red blood cellular level ..all charades of our timeliness .. perfect in my opinion .. i think this is one of your best poems to date ..it seems to embrace in culmination a lot of your other spiritual poems of the "now" and "oneness" ..i couldn't close my eyes, however, because i would not get to the closing ;) the journey you take us on is simply beautiful, serene and imaginative .. well done says i! so glad you shared! if carbon science continues to explore the mini mini mini minuscule ..i believe it will explode into vastness of light and love ..our connection to all things, especially one another ...that's what your poem brings to me ..
E.

[KWP]

Hey E - thanks for reading ... I am not so happy with it, seems rather telling ... I would like for the reader to be led in a way they draw thier own conclusions... at the moment I tell them what their conclusions are ... you know what I mean? I would like to make it more metaphorical... any thoughts ?

[Einstein Noodle]

i like it ...i like being led by the hand in reading it .. i have too many of my own opinions :)))))))) but ....since you ask ... i really like the "heartbeat" .. perhaps you could expand on the "tangents" ..blood vessels, iron bearing, clogged arteries, plaque etc. ... but i like cellular levels of things ..love the "waterfall" ...you say it in repetition more so i focus on it ...its more universal ... which you wrap together with the personal quite nicely in closing .. you get pretty concrete with the waterfall ..maybe that's what bothers you about it ..how about replacing some of the repetitions with other aspects of the "waterfall" ...frothing, mountain cold, blends with surrounding air, flows over rocks (my favorite thing about water;) ..hope that helps ..love ya!

[andrew mitchell]

A lovely write KWP, no matter where you journey together, there is always home base that we truly call home, the nest!. As partners don't die together meaning at the same time, I suppose spiritual togetherness comes later.

[KWP]

Hey you ... happy Friday night ... woohoo ... thanks for the readi ... first poem I have written in a very long time X