Time wasn’t, then was,
once, the universe banged,
whirred, whispered
echoing across space
melody carried by stars
(adding harmony)
and cosmic dust
(rhythm)
sound dancing through Saturn’s rings
echoes reverberating through oceans
sensed in two heartbeats joined
echoing
somewhere, someplace
time was and is
A quadrille for dVerse. Host De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo, asks us to use the word “echo.”
I was thinking about space and then listened to this, Audra McDonald singing “Somewhere” from West Side Story. 🙂
Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings 
Love this! The big bang and the cosmic dust. That song has an eternal feel to it. I always imagine them drifting though eternity together.
Thanks, Jane. I imagine that, too, but it also makes me cry.
Me too. Buckets.
I’m glad it’s not just me. I was listening to it in the car and had to wipe my eyes before I got out. 🙂
It’s such a good song, that’s why it’s a tear-jerker. You’d have to be a block of wood not to cry 🙂
Agreed that’s what I really liked about this too
Thank you!
Love the time was and time is (and maybe also time to be)… past and present, just like that ancient light we see from stars.
Thank you, Björn. Yes, exactly.
I like the progression of this, very much.
Thank you very much, De.
What a wonderful image! (and all my favorite things…) (K)
Thank you, Kerfe! 🙂
This is lovely Merril…love it!
Thank you, Holly.
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Knowing how your poetry often touches on history, I Immediately thought this might be related to an article I just read about the Vatican holding a conference to honor the Jesuit cosmologist, Msgr. George Lemaitre, who was the first to explain the receding of distant galaxies was the result of the expansion of the universe. His theory, the “primeval atom” – now known as the big-bang theory.
I didn’t see that until just a little while ago. 🙂 But also in my weird synchronicity thing, I was just going through Instagram, and a saw a post from the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia that included an opera singer singing “Somewhere” because they’re going to have an exhibition on Leonard Bernstein next year.
It’s a tangled web!
Yes, indeed! 🙂
I like the song “Somewhere” which I could hear echoed in the last lines.
Thank you, Frank.
I like the way this swings from the massive down to the intensely personal, and the echoing between the first and last line. Lovely stuff.
Thank you very much, Sarah!
Another post I missed and am so glad I found, Merril. The words carry such meaning from beginnings to endings in life, even as the earth spins and the stars move, we are buy a minute here. Time passes so quickly!
My parents played the musicals on the stereo often and this is a lovely but painful song, “Somewhere.”
Speaking of songs, I am traveling back through your blog’s since “Sunset Song” was on the library’s DVD recommended films. I decided to watch it and it was hauntingly poignant and bittersweet. I’m glad I watched it and won’t share with my Mom. She cries and misses Dad, sometimes inconsolable. It has been 16 years but time has changed in her confused mind. . . She feels like it was just yesterday.
In the movie, I liked the way the woman says (pronounces) Ian or Ewan. It comes out so unique. I cried when her father was so beastly towards her mother and then, the firing squad for her dear sensitive husband. It showed how War changes men (and women).
I had hope throughout the movie, wishing her husband would come back. So sad, but realistic.
Thanks for going back through my posts. I’m glad you liked Sunset Song. It’s probably a movie that a lot of people would not particularly enjoy. I hope to see a new movie about Emily Dickinson that was directed by the same director.
Oh, it had lovely scenery and her thoughts on being part of the land, and part of the farm life.
The characters were realistic and gritty. I liked this film a lot.
The girl’s father made me mad, the war made the husband so different and rude. Late, though, scared to die, he became more of his original gentle and loving family male character.
I agree to all of it. It must have been beautiful to see on a big screen.
Oh, I’m sorry. Not sure if I said I borrowed it from the library, Merril. Silly to leave out the details!
No, I knew you probably did that. I just meant it would have been beautiful to see it that way. By the way, the movie on Emily Dickinson, A Quiet Passion, is also beautiful and also has lovely music throughout. It just came out in theaters, so it may be a while before it gets to your library.
I look forward to seeing this, Merril. It sounds lovely! I enjoy movies about artists, too. “Pollack,” “Turner,” (Timothy Spall) and the Meryl Streep film about Sylvia Plath or part of the story. For fun, I sure enjoyed, “Miss Potter!” Thank you for the head’s up. . .