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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland 
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This poem is about when I started forming spiritual beliefs and the transition from pain to peace. ================================================ "What the caterpillar calls the end, The world calls a butterfly" - Lao Tze Tao 1 My lamp, under dimmest light, offers only shadows to comfort for this day is taking too long. Woken into this now I can not evict from my head all the fury visited upon me. I shower vainly to pacify my emotions. Standing before a mirror; my reflection is the only witness to my existence. My exposed mind trembles with the marks of boredom eternally taunting. 2 Under the shadows of the rose bush, a lone caterpillar escapes its cocoon; mutilation of its primitive self shed to progress, revealing a beauty nurtured within. 3 Construct a boundary bury my pity within its fertile soil. Brittle leaves wilt upon my scars, allow my garden to grow. As a skeleton, in slumber, of autumn I await the cycle of rebirth. Winter is unwelcome, unable to decay. Death exists only within the cycle of renewal. in the silken waves of tulips I breathe the harmonies of nature. My spirit, lulled of the tortures, is truly free. ================================================= "Returning to the root is called quietude. Quietude is called returning to life. Return to life is called constant. Knowing this constant is called illumination. Acting arbitrarily without knowing the constant is harmful. Knowing the constant is receptivity, which is impartial. Impartiality is kingship. Kingship is Heaven. Heaven is Tao Tao is eternal. Though you lose the body, you do not die." LAO TZE TAO < !signature--> ------------------------ "I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity" Nicky Wire, A design for Life. manic street preachers "Outside open mouthed crowds Pass each other as if they're drugged Down pale corridors of routine Where life falls unatoned " "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. [This message has been edited by brian madden (edited 06-10-2000).] |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
Brian' So very peaceful. "I breathe the harmonies of nature". I love that line. Well done. Ellie 02 |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
This was Awesome! I loved the last line here also "Though you lose the body, you do not die." I really like how all this was put together, great job! |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Thank Ellie for your wonderful reply. It was the start of my spiritual rebirth, for the first time in my life I felt at peace. Thank you Whtdove, the second half from "Returning to the root is called quietude..." on are not my words but a quote from the Taosim manuscript. I wrote this poem a while ago but it did not fit together, it was still very negative. I discovered Taoisma and found the its teachings connected with me, and a lot of the images in the scriptures were similar to those in my poems. Taoism helped me focus my life to a certain harmony. I rewrote the poem from that Perspective. Thank you for your replies. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. manic street preachers "Culture Alienation Borebom and Despair" "I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing" -faster MSP "And you see, I kind of shiver to conformity Did you see, the way I cower to authority, you see And my life, it's a series of compromises anyway It's a sham, and I'm conditioned to accept it all, you see" six by Paul Draper. ----- |
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Alle'cram Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816Texas |
Hi Bryan, Your poem is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this fantastic piece. Marcy |
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ROSE MARY Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 82scranton,pa. u.s.a |
enlightening journey given from the depths of your soul thank u for the beautiful share of finding newness of spirit |
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erieval Member
since 2000-03-21
Posts 56northeasten pa. |
Dear Brian, I love this poem, especially the 3rd part. Winter is unwelcome, unable to decay.(if it doesn't decay, you can't get rid of it, "winter" only freezes it so it can't decay!) Death exists only within the cycle of renewal. (if the old stuff isn't dead, it is impossible for rebirth!) I hope that this was what you were trying to say, for this is what it said to me. I reread it a few times, for every time I read it SOMETHING ELSE WOULD JUMP OUT AND HIT ME and I would see something I didn't before! This is such a beautifully written poem. Your feelings and emotions just flow from it like a river, and wash over you like standing under a waterfall. THANKS!!!! Bless you. Erie |
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