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Why Seeking Afar?
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Wednesday, July 27, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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All living beings

Are blessed by Nature;

It is like water and ice:
 
Apart from water
 
There is no ice,
 
Outside the beings
 
No nature of insight.
 
 
O the nature of insight!
 
Not knowing it is near,
 
People all seek it afar.
 
Such a pitiful thing!
 
It resembles me one
 
Who stands in knee-deep
 
Clean mountain stream

Crying out with thirst.


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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on July 27, 2016
Indeed, insight in a part of us, we need only to realize its proximity. An interesting thought poem. John

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 27, 2016
I think we are like that one described in those last three lines. In the last decade we have peeled back more understanding of the world and universe we live in, than we did in all of history before. The question always remains, especially now, will we find out enough about what we don't know this century to stop some very serious trends that will eliminate us all if we are not very careful? For we could be standing in a mountain stream that is too toxic to drink.

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on July 27, 2016
Simple directive . . . But oh so superior in its thought process . . .

Reviewed on July 27, 2016
I believe Dorothy, in "The Wizard of Oz" was thinking along the same line when she said, “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.” You have brought this thought across beautifully!

Love ya!

Jane


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