Build the foundation of your worth on solid gold
though this comes from the earth, this you can hold.
No thief can plunder what you've hid inside of you
I don't have 'verse and scripture', hoping this poem'll do.
There is no formal training that can set you up this way
just know that in the inerts is where's the greatest pay,
that you may sail the earth and stars all along the dale
but if you have no grace, then what you've got is no sale.
So exercise the fruit of patience, love, peace and gentleness
so as to elicit the delights of the happy, aspiring mentalists.
Down with the pragmatic see-sawing of never-oughts
up with the fantastic revelations of the free thoughts.
A contest entry
- The Bowing Tree by maa.
777 points, ended January 15, 7 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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thank you so much for your precious participation in this contest, patricia ... your poem has something truly transformational about it : I find it at the same time lighthearted AND profound ... somehow, I feel that you are expressing the same insights that I am tempting to share through my poetry in slightly different colors and shades ...
your way is much more down to earth, joyful, playful and tangible - while I tend to be a bit too abstract sometimes (most of the time
) ... you have a very motherly, protective, feminine way of communicating for me ...
and you are so right when you show us the way of the heart, when we all tend to be a bit too mental about life and its situations ... and it's exactly this "mentalist-mentality" that makes us and those around us suffer ... there's no other way out of this dilemma than "within-ness", as you so well expressed it ...
thank you so much for this truly hope-filled, uplifting and wonderful poem ...
maa
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Such beautiful comments, I am thrilled to receive them, thanks so much...lol
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Love it!
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Wow, thanks, Allan...that means a lot
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