Love this idea of the "unspoken voice of a DNA that we hear and receive in the depths of our bones". I think you have hit upon two of the most driving and fundamental needs and desires of the human heart, mind and soul: hope and love - faith encompassing both. I have such a sense of this "voice" choosing the strength of vulnerability; choosing to cast adrift, placing trust in the security of deep waters - with no other end in mind than to just purely "be in completeness". A beautiful, complete write here, Jude, which quite takes my breath away, makes me speechless!!! A wonderful poem of proposal for those who have ears to hear - and my guess is that that would be all of us, whether we name it "faith" or not. Stunning! TY Kate xx
One's faith is as self-proclaimed as one's fingerprints, or one's dna, just as you've mentioned.
Mine is not anymore right, than yours, and vice-versa.
Excellent write Robert.
Lisa
Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on January 23, 2005
Stone me. This is a knock out of a poem, the ACE..
were you sitting on a mountain when you wrote these truths, medicine man? seriously, this touches me deeply. so far as the craft of poetry goes, the building drumbeat (I'm hearing native American chanting rise and fall) you've achieved is phenomenal. and you grew right into this topic quite well. wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
This reads like a chant. One line builds into the next and on to the grand crescendo. The truth and faith are within us...when either one speaks, we need to be ready to listen… Violate either and be prepared to pay the price of doing so. This is an excellent write, Robert. I really like the cadence.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
This is lovely, Sir Ace. Thank you.
Beautiful write and very inspirational Jude.
"Hope in vision
Words in an embrace
Light in a motion
Conviction on a face" ---> Definitely Faith within these words.
warm hugs
Elga
I feel suspended, your words wont put me down
Excellent!
TRASK
"Truth in a conundrum
Faith in the stars
Accent of everything
Love healing scars "
Thank you for reading my poem.
Nila
Felix
Breath of life--------you have got to the essence. A very important poem. Thanks. God bless
D
PS:
T1 L3: dna-->genes(?)
T2 L3: an-->a(?)
Mine is not anymore right, than yours, and vice-versa.
Excellent write Robert.
Lisa
"Truth in a conundrum
Faith in the stars
Accent of everything
Love healing all scars
It always is calling
It never pretends
It is a poem of proposal
And has no end "
Love Tinka
Such a Beautiful poem!
Love Tracey
ypur poem says it all...
john+
Beautifully thought and expressed.
Eileen
Take care,
Sherry
Lovely description of faith.
Gina