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2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

0 posted 2011-10-06 04:17 PM

What I like on this earth,
it is not the color of the sea,
it could have been orange or mauve,
boats would have floated
for a long time
between ports and canals,

What I like especially
it is the seizing contrast
between the wild people
and the technological people,
some are surrounded with electronics
miniature telephones
or huge television sets, they know
everything of the binary language,
the automobiles
and the social networks,

But they remain people
and cannot hide their weaknesses,
those of their hearts, of their spirits
and it is enough for a half naked Indian
of half a second to know more
about them than themselves will never know,

One massai dressed in red knows more
about the soul of an urban Internet user
that this Internet user will ever know
during his life ,
the contrasts do not hide the nudities.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2011-10-06 05:49 PM

Profound and powerful message here. For all we think we know, in truth, we know squat. Makes me wonder if it's too late to learn something from those half naked Indians... or if we'd ever even allow ourselves the time to try.

Michael

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2011-10-06 07:26 PM

Fine writing...James

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

3 posted 2011-10-06 11:20 PM

Oh ya!
They walk down the street with an i-pod wired to their ears or with head down into their i-phone and wouldn't care or even know if you said hello in passing.
Sucked into the whirlpool to drown in the electrons . . .

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2011-10-06 11:59 PM

Yann, I absolutely love your philosophical mind meanderings, and this is one of my favourites of yours - perhaps my very favourite of all the ones of yours I have read. Few people look into the soul of humanity as you do - and you do it magnificently.

Owl

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2011-10-07 04:13 AM

A lot of sad truth here, yann. Much thought on the way things are.
Ida

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2011-10-07 04:40 AM

thanks michael for the supportive and appropriate comment, are wa losing our souls slowly to become robots or fully obeying person, the question deserves to be asked with sensitivity.

regards

yann

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

7 posted 2011-10-07 04:40 AM

thanks a lot James

yann

2islander2
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by the sea

8 posted 2011-10-07 04:42 AM

thanks krawdad, a new step in civilization I guess, hip hip electronics ware,

regards

yann

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

9 posted 2011-10-07 04:43 AM

thanks a lot diana for the very warm comment, I appreciate a lot, I am pleased you enjoyed the poem,

regards

yann

2islander2
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by the sea

10 posted 2011-10-07 04:44 AM

thanks Ida for the true and supportive comment,

yann

Margherita
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Eternity

11 posted 2011-10-07 02:03 PM

This rings profoundly true to my ear and I bask in the light of your awareness, dear Yann.

Spiritual richness is the goal of our wandering this Earth and though the technical devices are also a product of human ingeniousness, too often we fail to recognize the true potential of our minds, as we cling to material things.

Brilliant work.

M

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

12 posted 2011-10-23 10:14 PM

You write interensting poems so well, yann. I seek out your poems and am never sorry that I have.

A

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

13 posted 2011-10-23 10:25 PM

yann, I take it that you don't know yourself by this argument, because you are here with the rest of us. I have news for whoever, I know myself pretty darn well. I have had a lot of different kinds of people try to tell me "who I really am," over the years, but I know exactly who I am, thank you very much

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

14 posted 2011-10-23 10:51 PM

Greetings Yann the Mann!

You are a ponderer and wonderful observer of life and the world around you. Those are two of the reasons why you are such a fine poet!

EA

2islander2
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Posts 6825
by the sea

15 posted 2011-10-24 01:54 AM

thanks alot margherita for the accurate and delightful comment, it is kind and rich,

yann

2islander2
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by the sea

16 posted 2011-10-24 01:55 AM

o alison, this is so kind, thanks a lot

yann

2islander2
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by the sea

17 posted 2011-10-24 01:58 AM

jerry, this is so pertinent, I learnt myself with the help of magnificent and true people, how can i forget that and not to share hommage and poetry, thank you very much

yann

2islander2
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by the sea

18 posted 2011-10-24 01:59 AM

thank you so much linda, your words are solacing and so kind

yann

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