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secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-09-27 01:30 PM

    Truth Mistakes Nothing

Though Truth mistakes nothing
it can be easily mistaken for most
  anything,
masked by the endless riddles
of the human condition
and our ceaseless capacity
to wish, hope, and dream.
Shall we catch the wind,
tether the dancing hills
and shadows or query a
thousand infinitesimally
tiny, wild nocturnal things,
marshaled for this occasion
  by the night,
all bathed in the same random
tincture of clear-bright
moonlight and chaos
beneath an ornamental sky
in this timeless forest world?
Is that the sound of distant
laughter from ancient spirits
and the dead, mad poets
who have walked this
way before the ‘now’
or just the meaningless
flutter of our desperate
lives and imaginings
for some better days to
come or days gone by?

           --- b. e. adams (9/27/2013)

[This posting is to counter the frequent accusation that I write nothing but
  "happy/smarmy Romanticism and pseudo-sentimental syrup-dipped tripe," etc.]

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2013-09-27 02:43 PM

Love all your poetry, Bruce. This is truly proof that you can go deeper and do it very well.
Ida

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-09-27 03:51 PM

You really didn't need to prove that all you write are "happy/smarmy Romanticism and pseudo-sentimental syrup-dipped tripe." Still, I am fortunate that you did. I thoroughly delighted in your trip through our human condition and the mad poets, etc. It wasn't necessary, as I say to respond to your critics thusly, although is is good to vary ever so often our styles.

~*~ I don't have to eat sarcasm to recognize the flavor. ~*~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2013-09-29 09:04 AM

and our ceaseless capacity
to wish, hope, and dream.

The tough challenges of our human condition sometimes drive us close to total despair and yet it is also in our human nature to recover and rediscover the ability of ... wishing, hoping and dreaming.

When you are true to yourself all is well, dear Bruce.

Where some might see "syrup-drenched-stuff", I see only PURE BEAUTY.

You are a very good Poet, you know that.

Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2013-09-29 02:45 PM

Many thanks to each of you fine poets for your reinforcing comments about my ever-so-humble lil' "poetic scribbles!"

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