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Been Here Once Before (A Terza Rima)
by David Pekrul
copyright 09-23-2006


Age Rating: 4 to 127

 
I walk upon the quiet forest floor,
Where those before me walked in ages past,
And feel that I have been here once before.

This feeling is so strong and seems to last,
As everything around me calls my name
And speaks to me of history so vast.

For everything is different, yet the same,
As though I've been here once before today,
As distant light now turns into a flame.

We only live one life, is what they say,
But I am thinking that is not so true,
So, to the spirits of the forest I pray.

And as they show reflections in the dew,
I see myself a hunter in the land,
And one who travels in a small canoe.

Was I at one time from a native band?
And one who lived upon this forest floor?
Or are my feelings all just made of sand.

My vision lies beyond a distant door,
And in the forest is my sacred booth
Where I envision what has come before.

And though it seems a thing of ancient lore,
I've walked upon this quiet forest floor,
And paddled my canoe off distant shore.


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10-01-2006 Gregory Christiano    

Hello David: wonderful terza rima (created by Dante Alighieri in his masterpiece 'The Divine Comedy'). You've kept to the required iambic tercets with great skill. These three-line stanzas were said to allude to the Trinity in Dante's work, I wonder if you had that in mind in your verse connecting the ancent forest as a common thread? John Muir said, "The clearest way to the universe is through a forest wilderness." Great work. I enjoyed it immensely.
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09-23-2006 Brian Dickenson    

I like the gentle way you lead the reader on. Forests are very special places, of course the trees are more alive than we give them credit for, also I really think they have an intelligence that we cannot comprehend.
I also believe that we have been here before, nothing to do with religion, but all to do with energy, it's what we run on, and as far as I know it cannot be destroyed, only transformed.
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