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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2011-01-21 11:55 PM

               in celebration of silence

Can we truly emerge from the prison of our words
   and our ‘knowledge’
that move us ever farther from the pure
   enlightenment of simply being,
(sealing the fate of mystery and the miraculous)
and let consciousness dissolve into the infinitely
resplendent depths of the unconscious universal self?
it is perhaps somewhere in the endless search for
meaning … that we become meaningless.
Our words and our lives are the mist.

                     --- b. e. adams (1/21/2011)

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (01-22-2011 12:05 AM).]

The_Doctors_Angel_32
Member

since 2011-01-14

Posts 337
Florida, USA

1 posted 2011-01-22 12:50 PM

This is an awesome poem. I love silence myself.

When the family is together, the soul is at peace - Russian Proverb

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member

since 2003-10-26

Posts 1105
Watertown, NY

2 posted 2011-01-22 09:09 AM

quote:
it is perhaps somewhere in the endless search for
meaning … that we become meaningless.

I agree. Enjoyed.

-Trina
You better believe that my sarcasm could piss a happy meal off.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-01-22 12:13 PM

Very Albert Camus, except that your poem is much more beautifully expressed. Lovely, Bruce.

Owl

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2011-06-01 03:56 AM

Loved the title and love what you expressed here. Deep and contemplative.

Love,
Margherita

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2011-06-01 08:37 AM

It has always been a battle between the "enlightened" as they carry on with their enlightening of us, to the common among us who have a more earthly grasp of what life entails, or as you put it, "simply being." Stuck in the middle of these two divergent groups are the head-in-the-clouds poets.

As Owl said, you may have your foot in the door of existentialism and nothing really means anything. Except, of course, to you, because according to Sartre, Camus, etc., that is all it is.

~ Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock ~

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

6 posted 2011-06-01 05:40 PM

nice...I especially liked this last line...

"Our words and our lives are the mist." When I read it the first time, I automatically added the word in between 'are' and 'the.' Glad I reread it...your take is far better...and far more thought provoking

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