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A slight change of pace today. The poem below is inspired by and dedicated to the geese, John and Mary at the Central Park Reservoir. But, it could as easily been for Man and Lady or Napleon and Josephine, Larry and Laura and countless others.
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The Geese
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Across the universe and across time
Silhouettes in the night
Reflections upon water
Separate and yet welded together
in the forever bliss
of unspoken acceptance.
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They are nothing of unique
Ordinary and common spirits in a world that celebrates
the rare and the spectacular
And they have known failure and defeat
Of the most profound kind
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Their babies, barely formed
Never to know the breath of life
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They mourn and they grieve
what has been denied to them.
But, only for short time
As life requires living
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They will persevere and they will try again
For as long as their bodies allow.
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But, for today
To merely take in the warmth of sprinkling, healing sun upon their backs
And bathe in the comfort of each other's welcoming.
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For they are home in the loving gaze of the other's eyes
And silent, feathery caresses flowing
on tips of summer breezes
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Across the universe and across time
Silhouettes in the night
Reflections upon water
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The two geese melt together and disappear
Over the horizon. -- PCA
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