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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2008-02-02 07:45 PM


  Final Analysis

    a cloud …

    a human
      heart…

    a temple…

  which is
  most pure?


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Bobby Jordan
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1 posted 2008-02-02 07:55 PM


Secondhanddreampoet,

A heart, any heart, simply does what it's told.  What could be purer than that.

This works well.

Bobby

TomMark
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2 posted 2008-02-02 08:30 PM


none.
Marchmadness
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3 posted 2008-02-02 10:31 PM


A most interesting question. I think it would be a child's heart.
                               Ida

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4 posted 2008-02-02 11:30 PM


It would be the Heart!

ARCTIC WIND

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5 posted 2008-02-03 11:42 AM


I vote for the heart. Fine work here.
WindWalker
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6 posted 2008-06-26 10:16 PM


I too would say the heart. Fine work indeed!!!!!!!!!!
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7 posted 2008-06-27 01:58 AM


Pondering this question question conjured up these line from William Blake:

quote:

The Human Dress, is Forged Iron
The Human Form, a firey Forge
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.



From A Divine Image

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8 posted 2008-06-27 08:30 AM


depends on your point of view, and what shaped that view
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9 posted 2008-06-27 11:01 AM


Great to see this poem again!
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10 posted 2008-06-27 11:42 AM


Hate to disappoint anyone, but personally, I think it would be the cloud.  Good question, Bruce.

- Owl

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11 posted 2008-06-27 11:43 AM


Oh, and I meant to say, I do most certainly agree with Sea.

- Owl

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12 posted 2008-06-27 12:48 PM


Hello Bruce, very good association of concepts linked with a splendid question...Enjoyed it...Inspired instantaneously  a poem, I post it...

have a nice day

   yann

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13 posted 2008-06-27 12:50 PM


I agree with Owl, the cloud is the most pure, hearts are not even wether love can be very pure.

  yann

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14 posted 2008-06-27 03:42 PM


Personally I vote for the heart but one has to understand that the heart is most times not given a chance to function at full capacity and is, therefore, not given credit.  The cloud can be beautiful or not depending on the day but it fulfills its function in an understandable way and how like humans to appreciate only that which they can understand.  

To unveil the heart is to know of timeless beauty and stability but the unveiling process is not a chore most find desirable in this day and age.  There will, however, come a time of understanding and appreciation.  I have no doubt of that.

Helen

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15 posted 2008-06-30 11:28 PM


The Temple is most holy and pure, sacred place,
our hearts can fool us, sometimes it is wicked with wicked thoughts, the clouds are contaminated with our trash from the enviorment!

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16 posted 2008-07-02 03:18 PM


I do Agree with ARH!

Our hearts should be the most pure, but sometimes it brings not the best thoughts. I still agree that the heart is most pure because it shows what you're true feelings are!



ARCTIC WIND

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17 posted 2008-07-02 05:27 PM


The cloud, unencumbered with the cares and strictures of this world, could be an answer that satisfies some, but the poem has meaning that transcends the question, and that is where my heart lies. Ida is on to something, I believe, when she mentions the heart of the innocents---children . . .

Art

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18 posted 2008-07-02 05:33 PM


We poets have to grapple with ideas that are subjective and/or objective, and sometimes one or the other are in conflict with what we attempt to put in words. So I find myself asking---what is "pure"?

Art

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19 posted 2008-07-02 11:59 PM




I have no clue poet
which is why I read poetry

excellent


secondhanddreampoet
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20 posted 2008-07-04 04:17 PM


A grand thank you to all the fine "P.I.P.-land" poets who commented on this
'write'...and enriched it with their musings upon relative 'purity' and such!

--- bruce

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21 posted 2008-07-08 02:47 PM


To test the purity of the human heart, the Egyptian Book of the Dead tells us that Osiris and 42 judges watched as a feather given by the goddess Maat (goddess of truth and justice) was weighed by Anubis against the human heart. If the heart and the feather balanced, the deceased was granted eternal life. I vote again for the heart!
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