Entropy Comments

meaningful! very deep thoughts and feeling! keep writing!

'We cannot take away death yet, but we can fulfill all your dreams.' Death is the end of all.Beautiful meaningful poem really

Any poem that makes the reader think is doing something worthwhile Fred, and this one provides lots of food for thought. I enjoyed the read from start to finish and I appreciate the weighty content. Too many poems by established poets these days focus on almost inconsequential issues and items, when the big questions still go unanswered and too often unaddressed - as if by ignoring them their importance will diminish until they no longer matter, but the logic of reality can't be evaded. If all of us ignore the significant, we'll starve on the consequent harvest of trivia and become as shallow - and dangerous to our future - as the fatuous concerns that seem to dominate our times. Humanity may now be capable of sending probes to Pluto but on matters that really count for our moral development it seems to me that we've been going backwards for at least 200 years - since the birth of real democracy/political freedoms.... perhaps they're simply allowing us to be what we are, as we become ever more uninhibited, and perhaps what we are will be more fully revealed just a little further down the road when our gradually dissolving inhibitions no longer save us from ourselves. Doomsaying comment maybe, but I hope I'm wrong. There is much wisdom in your lines - though as you know I don't have much sympathy for the Buddhist point of view - not least the notions that 'the past is over.. the future is not yet here' for example. The past is never gone in my view. It helps shape the present from flowing moment into flowing moment, and as we go, we shape the future, though rarely as we intend. We straddle all three, though really they are just the one ongoing process roughly speaking. I've got a scribble somewhere called 'Tomorrow' that may reveal what I mean more clearly than this. Anyway.. Fred.. Ya got me thinking.. It was a pleasure to read... and yeah .. I'm all out of beans! Nice One. jim

Very wise and well written poem Fred. The innate rhythm of the poem kept me going to the end, and then I realised, what a gem I have had the pleasure of reading, a gem whose beauty stayed with me long after the reading was done. Cheers, Anita

Such truth so eloquently put good stuff Thanks Nik