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RonPrice Junior Member
since 2006-05-10
Posts 12Tasmania Australia |
The city is the embodiment of nightmare, of terrible visions, of some blank and dead spirit. Dostoevsky describes this urban jungle in a style full of life’s immediacy and authenticity, with a sense of the vastness and indeterminacy of human motivation. His writing career began after he gave up his ‘dull as potatoes’ military career in 1844. -Malcohm Bradbury on ‘Dostoevsky’, The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1989, pp.27-52. Attainment unto this City quencheth thirst without water, and kindleth the love of God without fire. -Baha’u’llah, Gleanings, USA, 1952, p.269. It was a year when careers took epochal shifts: exploring darkness and light, old crimes and new punishments, books, so many new books, that would change the face of fiction and the world’s spiritual sensibility forever. Tragic figures, so very tragic, but ultimately an exploration of the inner man that the world had never seen: Worship thou God in such wise that if thy worship lead thee to the fire, no alteration in thine adoration would be produced.* Different cities found expression under your pens: heavenly and earthly, earthly and earthly where, at last, the Mystic Herald, bearing the joyful tidings of the Spirit, shine(s) forth from the City of God,** from Your book, like some trumpet-blast of knowledge, resplendent as the morn, awakening hearts from the slumber of frenetic passivity. And this city of multiforms is taking shape up there, over there, like a pregnant mountain and in a thousand other places, slowly, gradually, confering new life on seekers as they penetrate the hidden mysteries of the soul and inhale the fragrances of a new morning in some wondrous utterances in which the channels of their souls are cleansed by new perfumes.*** Ron Price 27 October 1995 * The Bab in Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p.77. ** Baha’u’llah, Gleanings, p.267. ***Dostoevsky wrote many books before he died in 1881. The Bab and Baha’u’llah wrote a massive number of books before Baha’u’llah’s death in 1892. |
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sandgrain Member Elite
since 1999-09-21
Posts 3662Sycamore, IL, USA |
The imagery in this piece definitely makes it explode with meaning. Thank you for sharing this delight. Rae |
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Musicmaker1969 
since 2000-06-25
Posts 589Peterborough, Ontario Canada |
This poem makes me think of the New Jerusalem that awaits those who live for the Lord today. It is full of vivid images that embrace the mind. I very much enjoyed it. Sheri Adams Jesus lives in my heart! He can in yours too!!! |
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Poet4Christ Member
since 2003-02-19
Posts 211Oklahoma City |
Wow Ron - so much to take in here - I feel a lot of strength in these words...a building of the holy spirit into a gradual birth of majesty. good stuff - Tim He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. Proverbs 28:26 |
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RonPrice Junior Member
since 2006-05-10
Posts 12Tasmania Australia |
Thanks for the feedback folks. I wonder how, and if, one can tell what a good poem is. Subjectivity is so crucial. I find it pleases me to know someone enjoyed a poem of mine. But after more than 40 years of writing poems and getting feedback, I'm really not that interested in people telling me I should do x or y or Z. It's not a question of being too old to change; it's rather a question of wanting to know I've pleased someone. I don't mind my wife telling me to do x or y or z differently because I have to live with her and pleasing her as much as possible is crucial to my well-being. In appreciation for your reactions. Ron Price, Tasmania |
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