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Thu 18 Dec, 2003 01:10 pm
I experimented with the rhyme format. I am not sure how much I like the format but I wanted to post it regardless.
I am lost in my mind
I don't understand time
I am opened to the light
I know this is right
Goodbye bitter sweet world
Let there be peace
Let confusion cease
Let my mind release
On to another plane
The old becomes mundane
My concious is pure
Never will temptations lure
I have been liberated
I can walk about without care
I can be me without a stare
I can let myself be stripped bare (This line is still being worked on)
With my knees on the ground
It is You I see all around
Clearly now I sing
Because I have found my King
The rhyming words took the centerstage and pushed the poem to the backseat.... Whats the message?
I too, struggle with the rhyme
I have toyed with this format and struggled with the limitations of the vocabulary that ryhmes and not losing the message in the process. You did a fabulous job with it, as I knew the experience you were describing, before reaching the last line. I knew exactly what experience you were describing as I read each verse and I heard the message all along the way. Perhaps those that miss the message, have not had this experience yet. Great job.
Shajahan,
This poem is about a self realization, a veil being lifted from my eyes. In
1 John:5 and 1 John:7 the Bible talks of how God is light and how Jesus and the disciples walked in the light. And how if one walks in the light one can be purified of sin, not free from sin, but purified. Light takes away the mystery of darkness. I believe that darkness could be the self-centered nature of humans that creates sin. This poem is about the light being shined on my self-centered nature and how my mind is free because I am aware of it's self-centered nature. I can elaborate more is you want, but this is the jist of this piece.