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The voice of a poet
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The voice of a poet |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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The voice of a poet soft and dulcet in its tone or harsh, abrasive, cutting, and reaching to the core, moves freely like the wind, touching, circulating, and speaking only, and always, to those who wish to hear. Ideology, philosophy, wishful thinking, memories, unsubstantiated dreams, and hopes, wishes, desires, woven like a tapestry too soon to be outdated and discarded like a heap of old and musty books. In a fire of these times volumes and manuscripts will burn and be forgotten like bodies of the dead and cynics will grow to outnumber those who know till all and everything disappears into the air. How pointless, how degrading, how useless is intent to expose to the already wise the wisdom of the old or shine like a star in the path of a blind man in the knowledge that he has no eyes to see. And the lilies in the valley, sunsets and mountains, hills, all viewed and assessed from standpoints of the known recede into the background as if they don’t exist like love that is annihilated on human battlegrounds. Too numerous the setbacks and too far away the moon to highlight a soul within the shell of flesh and the voice of a poet disappears into the dust to be trodden on and crushed by life’s intolerance. The air once thin, sustaining, grows thick and thicker now with the absorption of … simply all and everything! Helen |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Wow, a deeply powerful piece. Let us hope that our words never turn to ash... |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Helen~ Your word-thoughts reach deep into the soul of this poetess~ Thank you~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you, Magnus and Marge, for the read and for taking the time to comment. No harm in hoping, Magnus, as long as hope doesn't consume the everyday reality. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
thought-provoking piece here Helen |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thanks for reading, passing shadows. I think I'm done with thinking for the time being. Time to sort out the brain matter or the heart matter or both! |
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