Charles Coon Poet Blank verse

Knowing For the First Time After Ts Eliot

Knowing for the first time (after TS Eliot)

Knowing for the first time
means becoming aware
that there really is
no first or next time..
It means realizing
time has asserted itself
as a fencing
with barbed-wire barbs
claiming their sequence
marking our surrender
of freedom..
As time barbs dissolve
in our space of being
we know with joy
for the first and all time...

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot

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Tim Smith September 5, 2017 at 1:50 PM Enjoyed the depth here

Dean Wood September 5, 2017 at 1:11 PM Wow, this is deep and convoluted. I've read this three times and I still can't wrap my head around it. You're inspiration from T.S. Eliot is likewise ethereal.