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The pure nectar of this moment

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Shout it out or whisper it secretly in my ear

Tell me all the things I will never want to hear:

Tell me how Sharia law liberates the maid:

Tell me how nationalism is patriotism writ large;

Tell me how exactly and who it is that Jesus saves.

Now I’ll tell you our lives are way too crammed with things

How we need to let go if we want to hear the song thrush sing.

If we allow irresponsible technology to dominate our lives

We’ll see the nihilistic culture of street-knives thrive.

The scramble for money'll mean only the rich'll  survive.

No! No! No! the Persian poet Rumi wrote Oh! so many years ago:

If you want money more than anything, your soul is already sold.

The clever and the strident Oh! How much they’d change the world;

While the wise ones change themselves, as the future is unfurled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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◄ Those who are near, are far away

Ignorance is strength. ►

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Mon 29th Jul 2019 01:28

Pure nectar... let us aspiring poets drink in the perfection of your words. ?

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Martin Elder

Sun 28th Jul 2019 15:57

What draws me to this poem is the fact that you are asking questions and not blindly accepting any one truth as truth with out finding answers tot he why's the who's when's and how's. Keep posing the questions, keep probing.

Nice one

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John Marks

Sun 28th Jul 2019 14:58

Thank you Devon and Keith and Rachel and Rebecca. In my opinion, any form of what is commonly called 'original or creative writing' (whether in prose or poetry) is rarely if ever truly original. It arises from a confluence of influences - some literary (lines that we half-remember and translate into 'ours' in our heads) but more often from experience (lived moments of one sort or another) which we translate into words. The great Anglo-American poet once wrote, in 'The Sacred Wood', “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

Devon Brock

Sat 27th Jul 2019 22:55

John, you have this knack of bringing home the bacon with solid imagery. It may be easy to gloss over this line - "How we need to let go if we want to hear the song thrush sing." - but that line just simply nails the sense that we are distracted from truth by all the noise around us, the jockeying for position, the irrational clinging to things and obscene ideologies. Wonderfully presented as only you can.

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keith jeffries

Sat 27th Jul 2019 22:34

John, your concluding line has words of wisdom. We need to know and accept who we are. Plato said, “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth”. Another excellent poem and thank you. Keith

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