Newly Published Poetry by Douglas Thornton entitled: The Mid-Summer Ceremony Please click on the following link to read the full poem: The Mid-Summer Ceremony by Douglas Thornton
The Abyss of Experience Sometimes living, or the life we undertake, is no more than a dream of the past. One day we arise with some wonderful plan, work towards it, look at its many aspects, then realize it is not possible, and try to forget, but its momentum is still there. How often has such an event, a moment of deep regret, or a moment of overwhelming joy, affected the way something in the future is reacted to? We are in a bad mood and so everyone else must suffer; we are happy and everyone else smiles back. Life is an ongoing series compiled one upon the other, interacting, falling away, creating new outcomes, but binding them all into a habituated pattern. Yet there comes a moment when we really try to work out that wonderful plan, really try to experience it for all it is worth, but somehow we always come up short, or indeed approximate it with something we have already experienced. The new path around the mountain is interspersed with memories of the old, however neithe