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The Breathless Pause
Poems and Thoughts
a Mushroom eBooks sampler
Copyright © 2007, Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the Author of this work.
First published in United Kingdom in 2007 by Bladud Books.
This Edition published in 2007 by Mushroom eBooks,
an imprint of Mushroom Publishing,
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Dare Darkness Grab Us
NATURE AND PLACES ON THE PLANET
While I was wasting the day
Shivering on a very small earth,
the night sky
formidable
with stars,
we pull the comforting blanket
of our love
over us,
and,
curled together,
dare Darkness grab us
and Time scatter us.
Sleeping
with the silver disk
of the full moon
on my forehead...
light shining
through the thick bone.
Watch how it glints
on mind-mirrors,
Scatters shadows,
and seeks at last,
the tiny seed-thought
that waits for birth.
Seeing that hair-line
of flexed silver
in the frail green sky
of evening,
I exult.
God watches man.
Man pulls earth shawl
around him
webbing himself with shadow.
The first men
witnessing
this bronze ball
rolling across the sky
must have feared
the vengeance of the gods.
But we,
in an Age of Science,
alone on this hill,
know better.
The stars are myriad,
but still the dark between them
unsettles us.
We who are dying
hope that Science
has left some secrets unresolved,
and, against all odds,
our death will be
among trumpets and cheering angels,
even our sins of omission
forgiven
by a smiling God.
The Hubble telescope
has changed my perception
of the universe.
When I look out
on a dark night
my mind sees
more than my eye...
A fist of cloud
limited to earth
hid
the giant traveller
from another galaxy.
And I
crouched
in my bed
surrounded
by small things
saw nothing of the splendour
of its journey
nor heard
its distant
thundering.
It was a shock
to realise
a black hole
was at the centre
of MY galaxy...
A spiralling wheel of light
being drawn into
a dense mystery
from which nothing can escape.
A black dot
as heavy as the earth,
a full stop
marking the end
of everything I know.
A white dwarf
and a neutron star
circle each other
every eleven minutes,
28,000 light years from earth.
Eleven minutes
while I talk to Rachel
on the phone.
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Moyra Caldecott was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1927, and moved to London in 1951. She married Oliver Caldecott and raised three children. She has degrees in English and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature.
Moyra Caldecott has earned a reputation as a novelist who writes as vividly about the adventures and experiences to be encountered in the inner realms of the human consciousness as she does about those in the outer physical world. To Moyra, reality is multi-dimensional.
Most of the titles below are available from Mushroom eBooks, and in paperback from Bladud Books. Please visit www.mushroom-ebooks.com or www.bladudbooks.com for more information.
FICTION
Guardians of the Tall Stones:
The Tall Stones
The Temple of the Sun
Shadow on the Stones
The Silver Vortex
Weapons of the Wolfhound
The Eye of Callanish
The Lily and the Bull
The Tower and the Emerald
Etheldreda
Child of the Dark Star
Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun
Akhenaten: Son of the Sun
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra
The Ghost of Akhenaten
The Winged Man
The Waters of Sul
The Green Lady and the King of Shadows
NON-FICTION/MYTHS AND LEGENDS
Crystal Legends
Three Celtic Tales
Women in Celtic Myth
Myths of the Sacred Tree
Mythical Journeys: Legendary Quests
CHILDREN’S STORIES
Adventures by Leaf Light
BIOGRAPHY
Multi-Dimensional Life
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oliver Z. S. Caldecott
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