“Moment And Duration” (Eccl. 3:1) [Spanish Jerusalem Bible Series - Ecclesiastes sub-series]

Though everything duration has – dynamics, tempo, pace –
The moment all this starts again, for all of human race,
Is most important aspect, as one’s life is lived on earth,
For once things start occurring, they play out, like death, from birth.

Each thing that happens has its time, the point when cycles start –
Like counting down a rocket-launch as astronauts depart;
When zero’s reached, all systems go, alternatives fall back,
And new dynamics can engage, which preparations lack.

All this can be observed from on the Kingdom-layer above;
Like tumult of the nasty games men play; or acts of love
From center-pin of pinwheel, as it spins before the breeze;
Or from some Ark like Noah built (First Peter speaks of these).

Lord, as I ponder Solomon, his point in Chapter Three,
I’m hearing how he viewed the world, that we might also see
The onset of dynamics as where focus should be placed,
For once dynamics are engaged, new futures must be faced.

For me, that speaks of novels with their instigating scenes –
Some step into a future life where hero has not been,
At which point new dynamics flow as “tiempo” is played out,
All new, and yet “Predictable of range”, without a doubt.

He then goes on to lay out fourteen couplets he has seen,
Like birth and death, or war and peace, which in his life have been
A few dynamics, sub-events, which inter-played in life –
Impossible for anyone to alter, wrong or right.

I also see in poetry (four thousand items there)
Which could be grouped within such heads that they might be prepared
To be of use to others who reflect upon such themes –
Once “moments” come, dynamics start, and long “duration” seems.

Those texts could be augmented with some pictures, graphics, tones,
So readers are invited in, to through its pages roam;
(Improvement to the product that I saw some time ago);
For each dynamic, new thoughts raise, thus seeds in readers sow.

Lord, thanks for this auspicious start to editing my work,
An overarching structure with in which good thoughts can lurk;
Grant me the grace to bide in You, and You in me throughout
Whatever new dynamics start, once “Moment” comes about.

Thanks Lord for this.

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