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Meditations: Inner Wisdom Outer Decay

We straddle the fringesof wakefulness and sleep;awareness and oblivionwe walk about in a trancenot knowing who or whatwe really are or what we stand for  We lose ourselvesin vanity and over indulgenceand delusions of egoistical grandeurThere are the signs which flickerand beg our attention;innuendoes which invite usto understand our naturebut our ignorancedrives us blindlyinto the depths ofabysmal sufferings  Our consciousnessstretches like gauzeand scatters like leavesIn an autumn wind There is need –dire needTo sit and gather our thoughtsin absolute and total stillnessand listen to the sanctity of wisdomemanating from the deepestcanyons withinoriginating from the originsof a God infused beginning We need to become onewith stillnessSo that timeceases to drive us blindlyand begins insteadto write its canonon the papyrusof our soulsand lead us intothe ever   widening embraceof space beyond spacetime beyond timewisdom beyond ignorancelife beyond death 

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yenti

yenti

17 years 2 months ago

Leonard

This piece should be out there with the best there is , if the reader cannot understand, or let themselves feel or see the true thoughts behind this piece , then, this is why there is so much unrest in our willful actions each day. Thank you young man it was a hard write, but written very well, and to show that from the last line of the lonely poems I give this a 5, Yours Ian.T
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leonard daranjo

17 years 2 months ago

Thank you Ian

The response to this piece was rather cold until you came along. I really truly and deeply appreciate your insight in this piece. Not only are you a true poet but a true reader as well. It is readers such as you who make writing a sheer joy. Thanks once again. ... Leonard
themoonman

themoonman

17 years 1 month ago

Leonard...

I'm truly sorry to have missed this eloquent poem you've penned... loved the contradicting lines in the first stanza... I only have one suggestion, and it is only a matter of preference... in the line... and delusions of egotistical grandeur... such a powerful line... I think I would've taken the "and" out, and maybe even left a space between over and under it... I loved the repetitive words, need, dire need...space and time... I did have another suggestion... Maybe you could still play around with "beyond"... what do ya think? It is four times there at the ending and leaves it kind of dry but should be sparkling... just a suggestion... loved the poem and believe in my time of meditation... it is a noisy world, but we can block it out for the time within... at least for the gathering of self... great theme by the way! Richard