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A Human Voice
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Tuesday, December 22, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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A monk once asked his master: “With what man of realization should one be intimate to obtain everlasting hearing even before hearing a thing?” The master replied: “Both are under the same quilt.” The monk asked: “This is what the Venerable Master can hear, but what is everlasting hearing even before a thing is heard?” The master replied: “It is different from a sound of a piece of wood blow and a mass of fallen rock crash.” The monk asked: “Which one is before or after the other?” The master asked back: “Have you not read the saying about hearing before a thing is heard?”


Poem Artwork

Sometimes a word

Is like a precious Sword of Wisdom;

Sometimes a whisper

Is like a tigress crouching in the tall grass;

Sometimes a cry

Is like a sounding rod casting its long shade

Upon the jaggy rocks;

And sometimes a wail is not used as a wail.

What will you do

To understand these notes of a human voice

Which comes out

From the empty space between the heart

And its external reproduction -- tongue?

 


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 Reviews of "A Human Voice"
Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on December 22, 2015
121-22-2015

Too Many Voices Doing The Talking
In Same They All Are Saying Absolutely Nothing...

TRASK...

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 22, 2015
I will listen carefully to the bombastic tongue to see if this cry is coming from the heart.

Ron


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