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· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Preference Manifest

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· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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Believe What You Seek

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

To wean oneself from the pressures of establishing an inflexible position of thinking and conviction—as to avoid premature demise of the brain’s potential, and in many cases, ones heart, given one is strongly influenced by the other—is to live as a dead species walking. (Image by Vimark)

Thursday, August 10, 2017


Poem Artwork
Believe What You Seek…

Believe what you seek,
not what others would have you speak.
Ignore the signs stopping you.

That whirling dervish of conviction one conveys
need not, nor should not,
suggest what your audience wishes you to believe.

The question is…

Do you convey,
speak.
or seek?

Would that more artists
were inclined to present but a perception,
rather than a guised demand to follow.
Might such an approach lead to a more enlightened state of mind for the curious?

For what is one person’s understanding
over another?

Can yours or my insight of experience
be an end all to art as you or I think it should be?

Reality’s imagination thinks not.

For as Frederick Franck posits: “An artist has an obligation to question the conditions that rule all our lives… and to cause his audience to do the same.”
Nothing more.
Nothing less,
regardless of the discipline one is partaking of.

For writers,
there is but knowledge converted to words.

Write on you lexicon-warriors.

Time could be short.


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Reviewed on August 11, 2017
Oh, yes! I love and agree with you wholeheartedly. I have always questioned what others would have me "speak". Your last line is timely for sure with what is going on in the world.

Love ya!

Jane


Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 11, 2017
You are not one to shirk your artist's responsibility to reveal when the king has no clothes.

Hopefully I am as well inclined or my art is for naught but wasteful passing of time.

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on August 10, 2017
Time most definitely is short. Love the phrase "lexicon-warriors". Indeed that is what we are, to "question the conditions that rule all our lives." John

Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on August 10, 2017
One should always be learning and seeking new forms of knowledge. Someone who worked in finance and industry can in later years turn to writing and poetry. I have and it feels liberating. My eyes are open wider now than ever before.


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