eternal / unchanging

 

~ eternal ~

&

 ~ Unchanging ~

“Victory is temporary, but joy is eternal. Grateful for all of the joyful moments, big and small.”  ― Serena Williams

 

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(Eternity is often symbolized by the endless snake,
swallowing its own tail, the ouroboros.)

 

When something is eternal it has no beginning and no end. Let's use the idea of "unchanging" as well.  We might know the beginning of something, but then experience it as lasting, rather than changing over time.  

For this prompt, write about things or ideas that remain the same despite life's events.  We live in a world where even positive values seem to be temporary  and time specific.  But what is unchanging, what can we count on, or what do we hope is timeless or everlasting?  

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(The "endless knot," a symbol of eternity 

used in Tibetan Buddhism.)

 

A Hymn to Ra

                         By Unknown, Translated By Samson Allal

From the tomb stela of  King Wahankh Intef II, pharaoh of  the Eleventh Dynasty of  Egypt, 2108–2059 BCE

Accept me, Ra, before you go,
before I go,
I pray ... 
Do polychromatic dawn threads
coat you,
like the tiny coruscating disks
sewn into a sequin dress?
Bring me to the breast of the night,
let me suckle stars,
cuddle obsidian cosmos ancestors ... 
They honor you, Ra,
like I do.
We sing your praises when you rise,
we weep
whenever you duck under the earth.
Embrace me, like a mother, O eternal night!
Fold me,
like a black origami flamingo,
forever protected
by dark paper, dark praise ...

(Read the rest HERE.)

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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) 

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by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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 ETERNITY

                                    by Robert Herrick     

O years! and age! farewell:
Behold I go,
Where I do know
Infinity to dwell.

And these mine eyes shall see
All times, how they
Are lost i’ th’ sea
Of vast eternity: –

Where never moon shall sway
The stars; but she,
And night, shall be
Drown’d in one endless day.

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(I'm tempted to add 20 more poems calling plastic and trash, writing, love, hope, justice, wilderness, etc., eternal . . . but what  is YOUR experience?)

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