encode_decode wrote,
Here’s a poem I wrote that explores the idea of what people talk about when they agree on everything. In the poem, I express the idea that even when we agree on certain things, our unique perspectives and experiences can still bring something new and beautiful to a conversation…
I have watched the leaves often. Either way, they are beautiful as they go about their journey…kind of like the clouds do. Sorry, do not mean to digress - or do I?
Perhaps the words spoken were not so harmonious in the first place. They were meant only to please the other, to get along. …not really “real”… Just a thought there.
I think that people have to come to the self-knowledge or truth first of realizing that there IS something within them that is worthy of speaking about, showing to the world, that is different than the thoughts of others and that they are entitled and free to see things differently and to express them.
I like that phrase “new and brighter flame.”
As in enlightenment? I think that when we are able to see a different perspective it enlarges our whole beings even though at first it may make for a more tedious journey along the way. But what are we here for anyway if not to make ourselves New and Brighter Flames. Have you ever sat in a dark room with only a candle for light and gazed at it, meditated on it? I am digressing again.
Actually, I think this whole poem is really cool. Do you really believe that we ALL have this unique spark within us? Do you call this spark God, encode__ecode? What is it that brings out this spark within us, I wonder? I love the stars, the ocean, he animals, the birds, so very, very much. What is that makes this spark rise up within us as individuals?
Why do we need to speak with pride? How are you defining pride here? What might be a better word than pride? I am sorry. That question might be full of pride within me. We might just say with exuberance, passion, joy, a longing to discover the Truth and for others to know who we are and what we feel and vice versa.
So what do we do about those who have their stuck-in-the-mud way of thinking and see no other way then their own? It just dawned on me that what I am saying is just the opposite of what you are talking about. You are talking about others usually agreeing with us.
I kind of think that that might ALSO require us to go away and come back another day after we have spent time looking up at the sky and the clouds lol and contemplating the ways in which we might think differently with them and even with ourselves. You know, taking that leap into the darkness to see whatever else might be there for us…what questions, doubts, thoughts, images, et cetera, may be there for us to examine and to take hold of, by enkindling that “unique spark” you spoke of.
Yes, most definitely. At times though, it might just upset the applecart of our beings, do you not think? But it is well worth it.
You are quite welcome.
Why this location. I googled it. Just curious.