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 Jun 2017
Colm
Lift not a man’s chin
By the force of your hand
When his head is down

Instead, consider this
If you are worthy of his sight
And an admiration to his eyes
He will look up at you
In due time

For it is not your place to try
And keep him from such things within
As feeling are

But encourage him instead to be
By standing out most patiently
So that you may appeal to him
And to his eyes

To seek the hopefulness within
And the truth as well, in which you share
And stand beside

No, if you seek to raise a man’s chin
You must stand with him and seek his eyes
I really like how this turned out. Some of the truest lines I've ever written...thus far. LOL!
 Jun 2017
Traveler
I could never convince you
Of the things I feel inside
All the numbness
Never healing
Because to me
It's do or die

Not lingering
On my sorrow
No depression
To convey
I get high
On Mother Nature
No regret
Can make me salve

Will you be here tomorrow
Or leave an empty page
In words displayed
In sorrow
Why do
Broken Poets
Have to fade?




........
Traveler Tim
 Jun 2017
Traveler
There is no argument
The invisible
And the nonexistent
Are indeed identical
Yet against all reasonable logic
The majority of human kind
Cannot rise above superstition
It's such a peculiar condition
Those who won't decide
Have already made
Their decision

I have decided
To believe in
"Narnia"
I like the lion!
Yet intuitively
I think reincarnation
Is moderately likely.
....
Traveler Tim
Just funing ya!
 Jun 2017
Pax
often tough times taught us to write.






© pax
I'll leave this quote to everyone...
thanksss....
 Jun 2017
Paul Jones
I sit on the fence       that keeps two sides from
tearing each other      down. I built that fence.
10:00 - 02/06/17
State of mind: doubtful; contemplative.

Thoughts: from thinking - about how I am sometimes accused of sitting on the fence and not having much of an opinion on current affairs.

Every conflict needs a mediator, a diplomat to quell or cool the heat of an argument.

Questions: what is the value in seeing all perspectives of an argument only to side with none? Is that really indifference or is there something deeper to do with acknowledging that there is no truth, only interpretation?

09:50 - 04/06/17
Afterthoughts: change is important because it encourages diversity. Conflict stimulates change.

I think what I am developing with this thought is more to do with the conflict in shaping what people believe is the best environment to exist in. In reality, there are many. There should be many and we should be free to move between them.

The internet is an environment. Some people ascribe to it, others don't. But both it and alternatives are important. Many facets has the diamond.

I believe the fence is symbolic for realising that there is not one perfect way, but many and is wrong to tear down the diversity we have in favour of a singular way.
 May 2017
ryn
Foreboding walkways
With weight of a million wreaths
Pulling in the walls
 May 2017
ryn
Some of the best words of art
come from the most
bruised and battered
of hearts.
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