Impermanence Comments

Stunning poem Norah that makes one delve into thoughts of death and mystery. 'you got to be really dying to see fully the absolute impermanence of things.' Nothing is more regretfully truer than that. Wouldn't it be great to never age and feel those aches and pains.....to be able to hang on to what we love forever........to gaze on Earth's beauty for eternity. Yet even Earth herself will not survive forever.

you got to be really dying to see fully the absolute impermanence of things. flavour of the formless, taste of eternity, there is a sense of mystery always in your poems. This is a special mind i always think when i read you. Mystical, spiritual, philosophical and at the same time earthbound. Thank you dear mystic poetess. tony

A beautifully written poem worthy of pondering on a long clock-ticking night. It is good to read a poem that has a philosophical theme yet does not bog itself down in lectures and cant. You have mastered the balance a poem must have to remain a poem, to be a piece of literature, a piece of beauty [there are many different kinds of beauty] yet have something meaningful to say both to the readers' intellect and emotion. A 10 of course.

Reminds me of that line from St Jean Perse rire savant des morts Knowing laugh of the dead as Tom Eliot translated it. This is certainly one of your best poems to date. The last six lines are stunning and the rhythms right through are beautiful. I'll add this to my Favourite poems list, if my just waking brain can figure out how to do it! Many regards Tom

Very nice. Well done but the title need editing. Still it's a 10.

~As has been said, the only permanent thing is impermanence.