Why is it that great joy brings salty tear ?
And why does heartache sometimes taste so sweet ?
It seems, together, bliss and pain appear
to make the wheel of karma look complete.
For Yin needs Yang, and winter needs the spring,
the pendulum swings not to just one side.
As much as failure soon success will bring,
within the seed of glory worms abide.
The moon is full, although appearance lies.
To see through Maya’s play, step back and gaze !
A prisoner is Freedom in disguise,
the Light of Truth dissolves illusion’s haze.
If perfumed rose you search, bear with the thorns.
Enjoy the milk – but don’t ignore the horns !
In a list
A contest entry
- Paining Pleasure by Purush.
550 points, ended March 25, 2008, 10 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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A well-deserved gold.
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Very Creative!
I really think that you done a good job on this poem. My favorite part is the moon is full, and If perfumeed rose you search, bear with the thorns.For with every rose, they all have their thorns. And that is what life is truely all about! Brenda Gae
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Oh, it is so beautiful! You are really good at writing Sonnets, it was a delight to read.
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beautifully penned with lots of imagination and practical truth in every line.
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Yes, we must celebrate the sum and not just the parts. For example, I can appreciate both your beautiful imagery and your quiet wisdom. (Some sums are more sumptuous than others.)
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The package is complete...
"If perfumed rose you search, bear with the thorns
Enjoy the milk – but don’t ignore the horns"
Well said in true form, sweet li'l sis. Enjoy the milk... and also LOVE the horns, a rose without the thorns is not a rose. A portrait done white on white shows no face... the black and white is but the mirror for the One.
Shine on, bright light,
Rahad"
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Stunning...
What an amazing eye-opener! Great imagery & metaphor, speaking eternal truths, enlightening my sleepy muse with a bold audacity! Best of luck in this contest, you have a winning masterpiece here!!! Peace, Cyn 
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This is pure perfection in form, meter and image. I truly love your work. The ending couplet is fantastic.
Love,
Amera♥
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Such a wonderful poem! You show the two facets of many important things in life in a very beautiful way.
Life needs balance, light wouldn't have any meaning if wasn't for the darkness.
I know very little about sonnets, but I do know I loved this one!
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beautiful!
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Each coin has two sides. This is a beautiful examination of truth, dear one. Your rhymes and meter are a pleasure to read, but your reasoning and examples are more delightful. I wish you all the best in this contest.
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Lovely write... interesting last two lines...
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What facts hidden in such beautiful verses.. Well done Marion.. Very well done. U have my applause
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Wow!!
Ooooooooooooh this touched Spirit and the images it did bring which You have weaved with a Powerful message and insight through this Sonnet
Love the energy exuded and the Light of Truth~
for that speaks volumes and can be heard...
Light radiated...
Smooth as silk this is...
Just Love this
Thank You for sharing Your Talent also Voice~
Many blessings to You in the contest Sweet Soul
Best wishes too Beautiful
and much love~ Desire~*~
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The rhyme and flow are mesmerizing...and the whole poem leaves me jumping around in a puddle full or thought!
You'll have to excuse me, I'm hyper today even though I didn't get any sleep at all last night.
I've always thought that people have to experience bad times to really appreciate the good. Karma though, is something I think about a lot and I'm still struggling to decide if I believe in it. People always search for reasoning in life...but maybe there is none. Maybe we are just all here to be the best that we can be or that others will allow us to be. I'm not sure...but if my brother or sister (in my global family) is suffering then I want to suffer too because I think the best help is born out of empathy... I'm thinking too much now and the words aren't coming out right so I'll stay quiet but thank you sooo much for sharing this Sonnet
Ellie x
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Splendid
Splendid
It is a pleasure to read a poem with perfect meter and rhyme. Then to have meaning and have it presented in a logical and contiguous fashion is of the same rarity of that of a fine red wine. (I do have some wonderful Hungarian) Very nicely done.
Jim
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And of course between extremes is that great panoply of degrees which actually makes those extremes plausible. What I mean is...we aren't just happy and then sad...well not in the big picture, there's degrees between many of those transitions...ignore me, I'm just thinking with my fingers.
You do Sonnets I see...but not me...but apparently I can do internal rhyme, who'd have thunk...
Lots of people tell me we can't have joy without sadness and of course that makes sense, we need one to understand the under...but you know...by now I get it...I get sadness, for my next 30 years, I'd like nothing but the yang.
The title is interesting, for me at least it suggests fullness, as in the cycle that you express in the poem...for that is what it is I guess, cyclical, life I mean...no wait...that depends...
ignore me, I'm doing it again.
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Free flow--All the best
the verse flows ,it appears ,freely from the committed inner soul
very happy to hear you
wishing you all the best in the contest -
Ah! Such a splendid poem in assonance and in alliteration ...
and combined with internal rhyme, soft and lingering sounds,the essence and core elements worked together to form a poem of timeless wisdom ... The title cleverly unveiled an illusion.
How beautiful you write, my soulful friend.
Love
Myra
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