Face the Embellishment of the World

My verses 1 Minute

To face the embellishment of the world,
Look up into clear nocturnal skies;
Let your mind dive in the tender glimmer:
Forget the day. Forget the earth.

Let your view come from nowhere —
All is pure time:
It may stop, for moments that pass.

Copyright © Teresa Pelka

The world may never have seen her original handwriting, if her skill was taken for supernatural. Feel welcome to Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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Published by Teresa Pelka

Linguist, specialized in American English and psycholinguistics; inventor of Language Mapping, a generative grammar method; author and translator; a poet and painter a bit.

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