Clapping of palms... But how does one sound?

Clapping of palms...
But how does one sound?
                (Your favorite koan)

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand…
                E.A. Poe



                I
TIME – THE SPIRIT OF CHANGE

In you, my soul, I measure time…
The impression of passing by
Remains within you, and it is that,
Currently existing, I measure now,
Not what has passed and left behind…

Now it becomes clear to me,
That neither future nor past exists
And that it is inaccurately expressed
About three times when they say:
The past, the present, and the future;
It would be more precise, it seems, to express:
The present of the past, the present of the future…
                Blessed Augustine

O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
                E.A. Poe






(From the cycle "SOLITUDE")

An important question that needs
To be resolved "in practice":
Can one be happy and lonely?
A. Camus

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