This Singular Night - Debate via prose or poetry prompt - carl - missouri

truly a life changing moment

Overwhelmed by the glorious sight- 

of myriad blazing stars filling the sky,

horizon to horizon

on the blackest of nights.

Immediately in the moment I understood 

that earlier dark night filled only with doubt

and many fearful questions- 

all unanswered until now.

“What about me, I had cried, 

where do I go?

All the others have destinations

but I alone am left in this place 

where I can no longer stay

and yet I have no other place to go.”

For many years

there had been no answer 

until this singular night. 

Filled with complete serenity I realized,

here is a time and place unknown to me-

one only you could see.

This is the place made by you,

and the way I had come

was needed too.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I went to the Memorial day celebration early today. I was the only one adding coins and cleaning not maintain soldier graves. I say names and I hope the old soldiers can hear. They are not forgotten. Carl, we ask questions. The why, the who and the where? I liked the energy and the questions in your words. Thank you my friend for sharing the powerful and worthwhile words.
Coyote

[carl]

I appreciate your kind words - I do believe there is a vast audience attending our actions and words so continue to speak the names of honor - carl

[Coyote Poetry]

I hope someone is Carl. Us leftover soldiers must remember the ones who had left us.

[redd Brick Keshner]

The stars do not answer,
but they do not turn away.
We stand beneath their quiet fire,
where doubt cannot hold, and something
- small, vast, immeasurable - finally shifts.
-Freds.

[carl]

much appreciated - your words encourage - thanks -carl

[Betty Hermelee]

Hello Carl
I think you found your place in life, this very moment when the stars were ablaze in the blackest of nights...you found yourself and lost or forgotten you no longer were...."filled with complete serenity I realized..."
Lovely Carl
Warmly, B

[carl]

Your insight is exactly what I was trying to convey - in that moment I realized although unknown to me in advance, I was found in a time and place prepared for me before my need. Some would say, how fortuitous, I say how Divine. - carl

[Betty Hermelee]

Always a pleasure Carl
Warmly, B

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I had to read this poem over and over again until its effect on me wore off. I thought my questions would decrease as I read it, but on the contrary, they increased. I have no choice but to take the words here very personally, you have explained it very well. And here I will overwhelmed in my own glorious sight...

Thank you for sharing this one. Perfect poem.

[carl]

thank you for the time to read and review much appreciated the kind expressions. please know. It is a very real and highly personal piece for me of an actual overwhelming event that brought great clarity both to my past and present all on the same moment - carl

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I'm really sorry. Thank you for sharing this with me. Hope you are better.

[carl]

not sorry I am absolutely fine. - when I was completely abandoned and in deep sorrow there was at that same moment a provisional care waiting for me which I only came to experience at a much later date on that singular night. It was a God thing and It erased all doubt that I would ever be alone again. -carl

[Lorry]

Looking up at a glorious night sky and feeling a part of the majesty of life beyond our own feeble limits is truly a moment to cherish.
When no matter what goes on in our own shores, we can look up and instantly see that this whole life thing ain't that bad at all.

[carl]

thanks for the read and review - much agree "It's a wonderful life" all things considered. -carl
read morethanks for the read and review - much agree "It's a wonderful life" all things considered. -carl

[Samuel Dickens]

I am reminded of a night sky I once saw in the Arizona desert, filled with so many very bright stars that I felt awed and ridiculously miniscule.

[carl]

read and review appreciated - truly the night sky when in a place of little or no light pollution can certainly produce those feeling - carl