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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: Zen Trader who wrote (1818)9/20/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 2095
 
Bystander

Joan,legatus a latere,
sub sua penna

For a second
in a minute
of an hour
in millennia's day:

A moment stopped in revelation

-a fleeting thought
to change
worlds-

is quickly conjured,
wrought,
culled from meld to form

then
forgotten,

lost

from
those
Remembered
flowing
within river-Time.

A frantic bystander desperate on its banks
wildly waving
(barely visible)
yelling
(now, ever so faintly)

"Wait a .......

c.
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Zen Trader-
good.
no.
great.
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Haiku from Ryokan:

Showing their faces
showing their back sides
the autumn leaves fall
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