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Open Poetry #42

Truth Questing Reverie

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2008-03-28 10:07 AM

I watch in silent reverie
as leaves spin 'round midstream,
revealing swirls of life within
variegated disguise,
sometimes truth, sometimes lies.

In reaching out to grasp the leaves
I am obsessed with those
which appear to reflect truth;
or are they...
well-dressed lies in disguise?

Holding them closely
offers no guarantee
that what I think I see
is the truth of what they be.

Does this questing prove
I am but an icon of naïvete,
or just an idle dreamer
fishing for truth
in muddy streams?

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2008-03-28 11:08 AM

I enjoyed particularly the iddle dreamer fishing for truth in yhe muddy water.....

   thanks

   yann

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2008-03-28 12:00 PM

I like the last verse too.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-03-28 12:13 PM

Midnitesun,

Truth and lies in muddy streams are often inseparably homogenous.

Bobby

Seoulair
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since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

4 posted 2008-03-28 12:44 PM

It has a sense of Zen.
Beautiful poem!!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2008-03-28 02:35 PM

truth is those things that never change...James

ArtSolstice
Member

since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

6 posted 2008-03-28 02:45 PM

How perfectly wonderful this poem is! Greatly enjoyed, Midnitesun. We'll be reading this on Monday to begin our studio week.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

7 posted 2008-03-28 07:03 PM

I love these replies!
Thank you ArtSolstice, that is such an honor!!!

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