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Taking a stand.....
When one takes a stand for, does one automatically take a stand against something?
Yes and No.
I am FOR every poet having their say so in a poetic context. I would die for the right to be heard and not censored. However, there is a fine line between proselytizing for the sake of it, OR because one can *get away with it under the guise of 'poetry'*. True poets write poems which will always include and attempt to go beyond our individuated 'known' idiosyncracies as humans involved in 'belief' systems.
Poetry is as close as one can get to speaking eternal truths that usher forth from the poet who is ripe with compassion and love. Anything else smells of over-ripeness. A decay of the mind and heart.... it's that exact decay that creates *double standards*. It's that exact smell that one learns to recognize as one who has stopped growing and so creates and recreates division in oneself... and so manifests itself everywhere one is. Writes. Lives. Breathes.
Good Friday. It's not something that happened to one man several thousand years ago; it's an example to live by: die to the old.
Be reborn in the light of awareness. Life is a beautiful thing: GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY. Learn to recognize what stands in the way: your shadow.
~Anna/Kailashana
Yes and No.
I am FOR every poet having their say so in a poetic context. I would die for the right to be heard and not censored. However, there is a fine line between proselytizing for the sake of it, OR because one can *get away with it under the guise of 'poetry'*. True poets write poems which will always include and attempt to go beyond our individuated 'known' idiosyncracies as humans involved in 'belief' systems.
Poetry is as close as one can get to speaking eternal truths that usher forth from the poet who is ripe with compassion and love. Anything else smells of over-ripeness. A decay of the mind and heart.... it's that exact decay that creates *double standards*. It's that exact smell that one learns to recognize as one who has stopped growing and so creates and recreates division in oneself... and so manifests itself everywhere one is. Writes. Lives. Breathes.
Good Friday. It's not something that happened to one man several thousand years ago; it's an example to live by: die to the old.
Be reborn in the light of awareness. Life is a beautiful thing: GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY. Learn to recognize what stands in the way: your shadow.
~Anna/Kailashana