During the bustling daylight
of my life, afraid of living,
wasting the sunshine of youth,
blindly following the "fight
for peace" tradition ...
Not knowing my brother,
no other answer.
Now the shadow-softened night,
nocturnal meditations of age,
the rage subsiding, the blind
eyes opening, I begin to see
--that peace is in the
knowing of one another.
No Other answer.
Your thoughts express the view of this longing for peace and the wish to capture it and know what it is to touch and feel another as a brother and true believer of ...Peace...
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Once again you have captured the essence of life.
Cryssa
nice poetry of thought.....Art sun...
Nicely done,
Michael
Love,
CJ
Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)
Wishing you well..
Sam