Sunset on a River

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Just when I think I haven’t another poem in me, one comes along to prove me wrong, and here it is, my first poem of 2019.

I love sunsets, not only for their natural beauty, but because – for me, as I dare say for many of us – it draws a line between night and day, light and dark. I find myself reflecting on life, love, nature and the relationship between nature and human nature more than at any other time. I have noticed, too, that these reflections often feed into my dreams and almost certainly contribute to my being something of a philosopher-poet.

The photo was taken by my closest and dearest friend, Graham – who also shoots the videos for my You Tube channel – and I wanted to share with you, dear readers, my thoughts upon viewing it.

SUNSET ON A RIVER

At the heart of a setting sun’s glow

I watch images of my past

converging on the Here-and-Now

while hazarding a guess at what comes next;

where only passing wings dare go

At the heart of a setting sun’s glow

I hear echoes of my past

converging on the Here-and-Now

while reaping the finer part of memory’s yield

as nurtured by mind-body-spirit

At the edge of a sunset’s fading glow

I toss all testing times

converging on past-present-future

while taking heart from a sense of Carpe Diem

bonding nature and human nature

In the dying breath of a sunset’s glow

as earth and sky conspire

to pass the world into the arms of night.

I’ll put one foot in front of the other, feel safer

for a discourse with Earth Mother

Where moon and stars on some river flow,

 so, too, the human heart aspires to follow

Copyright R. N. Taber 2019