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Compare 'Heart & Soul': allpoetry.com/Poem/432735
Written April 20th, 2004
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OMG Gennelle this is beautiful beyond words !!! I love the background the shooting star EVERYTHING WOW WOW WOW!!! I LOVE IT !!!
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Now in this fleeting moment,might one day prove to be all there truely is. Yesterday is gone,and tommorow never knows.Too sad we can't manage to all keep this frame of mind in all we do.If it's true we as enities of living energy are eternal,and minute fractions of the one collective soul.It should be easy.But,it's not the case.External stimulous scatters our focus all over the place.I wish I could maintain half as well as you seem to.This is a fantastic piece.~~Suseann
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Such an inventive graphic you have added to this page to make this appropriate background for your very unique short poem - the stillness, awesome wonder of the stars are expressed so well in just these few words. Lovely!
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smiles.fond rememberences.
dan fogelberg.....stars
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Great Write!!!
I really like this one alot
Great write and beautifully written even though it's only in a few words but bring out alot of meanings
keep on penning
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment and applause, Presence! I'm glad you liked it.
~G
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One of the most effective integrations of graphics and poetic words I have seen on AP. One wishes he could see the whole page at a glance to admire the Whole of it instead of having to scroll through it. Though the discovery of the different elements caused by scrolling was quite an effect for this one and brought out a "wow!" when initially viewed.
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Thank you, Tricia! Glad you liked it
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That is quite wonderful! I love the downwardness of the words!
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See, Yem, this is why I appreciate your comments so much; you make intelligent and challenging observations that provide opportunity for further explication and exploration of ideas.
I totally agree that blind faith is not intelligent or particularly useful.
Actually, the word translated as "faith" (in the Bible) is a Greek word meaning 'trust', 'loyalty' (i.e. a 'trusting loyalty'). And, as Carl Jung said,
"Understanding is never the handmaiden of faith - on the contrary, faith completes understanding."
I personally have no faith in anything I haven't had enough personal experience of to be proof to me. Of course, what is proof to one, may not be enough for another. But there is more integrity in good honest doubt that any amount of blind faith; I respect doubters more (without questioning, no real answers can be gained). Thomas' demanding proof before he would believe Jesus had risen is a good example. When the physical proof was given, his epiphany was dramatic: "My Lord, and my God!"...
This is affirmed by a Zen saying:
'When there is great doubt,
there will be great awakening;
small doubt, small awakening,
no doubt, no awakening.'
I like your tangent, hehe! But I haven't seen a "media shower"...is that when a network celebrates the imminent 'birth' of a new tv show?
~G
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It required faith in some supernatural force to truly appreciate this poem. Without it I believe some of its power must be lost. I'm without that faith, and while I can appreciate it in others, and logically understand it, faith isn't necessarily logical, it is emotional and spiritual (which I guess is emotional...I have a feeling we'll disagree there, but once again that is a fundamental difference based on faith.)
The falling star is cool, ever see a media shower, man those things are impressive...so impressive that a writer (and I use that word loosely) like myself, a nuts and bolts, straight-forward kind of guy took time out to write about their beauty and how it resembled our fleeting existence.
Sorry about the tangent.
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of course I loved the playfulness to this page
excellently creative
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Thank you, Chari! There is a universal dimension in this though, the 'One' in 'Now' is also a Zen concept.
~G
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Wonderful!
Interesting and thought provoking. This is quite a strong image, very powerful in the way it is laid out and the message contained within. I love the capitalisation part alot...that made it stand out even better. Your reply to Myrataal and AngelEyes711's comments helped me understand this better. Great work!
-Charishma -
This Divinely inspired song
Flows as a wind unto the one erelong
Who is moving in all our hearts
In the stardust of many centuries we depart
Will the multitudes awake
Into the light of the everlasting wake
And to the heavens may the righteous lead us
As the rush of the wind to the stars up above
But you Daniel, close up and seal
The Holy Spirits words of the scroll
Until the end of time may ye all behold
Many will go here to knowledge
In an ever lasting dominion my humble cottage
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This is absolutely beautiful I read it over and over and over again it's amazing...how do you do it! I could never write like this you have alot of talent that I guess you could say I look up to and I'd really like to write like this but surely I do not have the talent. Oh and before I leave I love the star that flashes at the very top! Excellent!
Kayla
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Yes - I can absolutely relate to that: I know many, many souls who shimmer like STARS FOR EVER ... Like you, dear Heart.
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Thank you Myra
You got it! We are all made of Stardust
indeed. Are you familiar with Daniel 12:2-3?
~ Gennelle
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Wondrous
"I am the Beginning," He said
"I am the End ...
I am the Now
I am the Then ..."
Lovely work, my friend. Starstuff, indeed.
Myra
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This is very unique. I like the way you layed this out. The downward flow fits the theme nicely.
Susan -
Thanks for commenting, Bill. As you can see, I'm not concerned with 'rules' or conformity in "form"...the point is the message and its affect (in contrast to effect).
~ Maatkara
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Lovely
Hi Ma at kara:
This is a lovely form, but this is not the same form as the Tanka you did before. Interesting questions in the form and the way they are aligned. Thanks. Bill -
This is beautiful. I love the image your poem makes. It's really lovely. Thanks for sharing zee
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excellent
I find this is a tantalising image; provoking questions, providing no answers. Your conventions of capitalisation make these eternal, universal questions. Arghh! I hope you're having a great day!
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