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Blind Leading The Blind

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Shall the strong control the earth?

Shall we learn from our mistakes?

Bloody battles, massacres,

Killing until the earth shakes.

 

Whose to blame for hell on earth?

Where do mortals stand?

Is it the will of God?

Is it the will of man?

 

Who among us judges God?

Spits upon his face.

To climb upon our pedestals,

Built on human disgrace

 

Will we call upon our Lord,

When we seep into the abyss?

Will we see through arrogance,

When we need whom we dismiss?

 

When we walk in darkness,

We walk alone, blind leading the blind.

Intelligence is of the world,

But wisdom we won't find.

 

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  • Tehuni
    September 28, 2008
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    a cleverly written poem, with a good rhyme scheme, but it never really pulled me in


  • Mad Pastor Grovell
    August 4, 2008
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    Not at all bad: SIN is the problem and GOD will punish it! What will happen is that all sinners will be DRAGGED down to HELL for UNTOLD EONS of AGONY and DREADFUL TORTURE and then they will be CRUSHED to LESS THAN DUST. In the meantime all those who are saved will be having a great time in Heaven.


  • AAA Taurus The Bull gold member
    June 19, 2008
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    Great

    an excruciating and powerful piece of wild poetry I love the closing, it was slamming a haunting reality, wonderfully captured, This is very well done. very much enjoyed There was no error. No typos. Nothing to change. I look forward to your next write


  • Tercil gold member
    June 19, 2008

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    A forever saearching answer this, and sadly, after getting some, they may not be good enough, good try!


  • Puppydog gold member
    June 14, 2008

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    WONDERFULLY EXPRESSED!!!!

    We as people do tend to not learn from our mistakes, we just go making more and more of the same ones all of the time.


  • Poetry-and-rhyme
    June 10, 2008
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    auntie youo must be a preacher of God's words you sure have a way of introducin things i likd this much much much one of my favvvv poems by you and te concept of the ship in the background is simply adding a taste to te skull and bones on the tiles wonderful auntie


  • Providence
    June 10, 2008
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    "intelligence is of the world, but wisdom we won't find"

    Indeed. We have books and schools of every kind, but it seems we have yet been able to learn from our own mistakes. And I fear the price of that ignorance is great...much more than we can foresee.

    Ovations!

    Marianne

  • goalsv
    June 10, 2008
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    Very smart words, nice testimonial for God.


  • ourgirlFriday
    June 10, 2008

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    Double WOW!

    Awesome poem! Absolutely fantastic! Query, though, about the 3rd stanza, second line: incomplete sentence? But otherwise, fine. Wonderfully superb!

  • Dobar Dan
    June 9, 2008
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    Super Judy

    You and I know the answers I suppose - and you have posed many questions here and the statement telling us that intellegence is not wisdom - why do evil men wage war? wise men wage peace - loved it and good luck in the contest - Bless God - Joe - (Dobar Dan) --------------------------------------------- hagd


  • maa gold member
    June 9, 2008

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    wow, that was a powerful ending !
    indeed, "intelligence is of the world, but wisdom we won't find" ... I couldn't have said it in a better way ... may your verse inspire and transform many minds strolling through your pages ...

    maa

  • Ace - LightWithinMe
    June 9, 2008
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    Hello Pisces Rainbow.

    This is a strong piece, asks many questions, and the last line, is a killer for me, excellent. It is a fairly emotional piece lamenting the ways of man, without going overboard, which suits the topic, as the wisdom we don't find does suggest that what us happening is for a greater reason. Best of luck in the contest.

    My regards.


  • jgrayson-au
    June 9, 2008

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    Perfect. I'll be totally honest, when I proposed this competition I knew it would be hard to judge because of my personal bias. So I was determined to find a poem that was from a theist point of view that I liked poetically and was on topic, worthy of a top 3.

    It's early stages, but I think you might just be it.


    I won't argue with you regarding the subject, we'll leave that for another time.

    Best of luck.

    • jgrayson-au
      June 9, 2008
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      I feel like retracting my previous statement now that I've checked out your profile.... WOW that background just blinds you!
      My eyes... MY EYES!

      (Ok I won't, but do you think you could turn the brightness of your rainbow down a tad?).

  • poetrymd
    June 9, 2008
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    Inspiring

    It seems to me you have written much truth

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