Saturday, December 17, 2016

Praise-Song To My Body Comments

Rating: 5.0

We both have and are our bodies.
Gabriel Marcel

Where does the center of my being
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Daniel Brick
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Paul Brookes 18 December 2016

Such an amazing write dealing with mysterious human centre the place of existence existence-beautifully express in wonderful prose thanks

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Susan Williams 17 December 2016

Your poetry constantly amazes me. Here is one of your intelligent, philosophic and serious-minded poems delving deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the human existence- - yet your poem is so... so... so poetic! ! ! ! You are definitely a master poet to be able to do that in my humble yet quite jealous opinion! 10++++++++++++++++

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Liza Sudina 17 December 2016

I enjoyed this poem a lot. It is very confident, truthful, clear. Yes, it stresses that we don't really say thank you to our body for its service, warmth and place at least it gives to our soul. It is good that talking about body you don't speak about its pleasures, because such pleasures are forbidden by any Godly religion. DN such pleasures - are all demanded not by body (because f.e. animals never use their body for pleasure or excess) but by our mind and soul. Suddenly - it is one of my favorite poems of yours!

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Daniel Brick 17 December 2016

This poem surprised me too. And I'm happy it spoke to you as it does to me. I'm happy you found it truthful and embrace it as one of your favorites. Ultimately body and soul are ONE BEING, all of our parts add up to a WHOLENESS, but to understand ourselves we have to look at each part closely and individually. Your comments on pleasure show how one part of our being - that is, physical pleasure - must not dominate the whole being. BTW the philosopher I quoted in the epigraph was one of the Christian Existentialists who balanced faith and reason, body and soul, etc. in a harmony of being. He spoke at a seminar when I was in college and I always appreciated his understanding.

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