AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Tom Kitt, iBryon Smith, iScott Zachary, iWilliam Manchee, iJoshua Su, iLinda Alexander, iAnita Shaw, i Dadfire, iDarryl Jenkins, iEdie Batstone, i

  Home > Poetry > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Keith Rowley

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Success story
· Books
· Articles
· Poetry
· News
· Stories
· Blog
· 85 Titles
· 418 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: May, 2007

Keith Rowley, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.



Chains of Illusion
by Keith Rowley → (All Poetry by Keith Rowley)
   Rated "G" by the Author.
Share   Print  Save   Follow   Share on Facebook

Liber Al vel Legis teaches us: "Bind nothing, for thereby cometh hurt". But that is only half the truth, for in a sense, great wealth confers almost as great a freedom as base poverty, and having everything is very like to having nothing; and so the states of wealth and poverty are spiritually equivalent. Those of us who by choice compromise in life and minimize risks to safeguard the little we have are surely the most pitiful creatures, abandoning to destruction our souls for so little, giving up our dreams in exchange for the chains that bind us. I hope this Haiku speaks to you before it is too late, or at least so that our children may be warned...

 Wealth and poverty

Two paths to freedoms doorway

Compromise is death

 

 


Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


 Reviews of "Chains of Illusion"
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 9, 2013
How so very true.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 8, 2013
Greatness is only achieved through risk. But then, in the end we all die anyway.

Ron

Reviewed on April 8, 2013
Neither, nor all, when for fear we stall to live at the centre, the middle kingdom, for all things come together in death, don't they?
You are a thinking man Keith, and a lovely one at that. Jasmin Horst

Reviewed on April 8, 2013
In the end whether wealthy or impoverished...
we come to the same end...

Enlightening thoughts Keith for those who
do not cross this bridge of thinking...

Love and Light
Lily


New Poetry by Keith Rowley
Popular Poetry (Poetry)
  1.  Catching Happiness...
  2.  Finding Trust Again
  3.  Nightsky
  4.  Reality of Another Kind
  5.  Life's Enormous Green Chest
  6.  Spindrift
  7.  Kindness
  8.  Luxury of Solitude
  9.  Our Restless Minds
  10.  Roadkill Memoriam
  11.  In The Still of The Night
  12.  Sediment Within the Soul
  13.  Dream Just a Dream
  14.  Feeling Lonely
  15.  Hunting for Truth
  16.  In Praise of Anonymity
  17.  Whisper Pens
  18.  Shaved Reflections
  19.  I Have Spent My Entire Life
  20.  Mythical Dragons
Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Key of Mist by Robin Ouzman Hislop

The Poems of Guadalupe Grande La llave de niebla (2003) Key of Mist Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop & Amparo Arrospide  
Member BookAds

World As Refuge by Chiemi

The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.  
Member BookAds

Norwood Night And Other Poems by David Clure

After the sun descends...and Norwood night sinks in, reality can be seen from a whole new perspective!  
Member BookAds