Life�s REVELATIONS

   

What are we searching for – where does our yearning lie?
I am not quite sure, I have the feeling I am destined for something bigger than I... (I know THIS - what I am becoming). I don’t intentionally provoke immorality... But why then, do I welcome it with open arms? Why do I enjoy it so? Why…, (What I have desired for so long) -A place I could feel safe, call home is anything ‘but’…

In life, there comes a time when we must ‘stand and recognize’!
I’d like to think I’ve earned this right, paid my dues if you will... I have managed to hold my own, infusing with-in - what is right and wrong... I know who I was and what I am becoming... Are others exempt?

Put your hands together as you look to the sky...
For years gone-by, more than I would like to remember ‘I have done just this’… Where have YOU been? Why do I feel YOU have forsaken me like the rest? I have believed in you when others have not. Have I been ‘dismissed’?

Auspicious signs will then reveal,
Hmm~… this indeed, they do. Beware though… not everything appears to be an open book.

Life is ambiguous… even-handed it is not!
Open to interpretation – how true is this! No apparent objective – it depends on how you view life. Unfair and cruel – THIS I am all too familiar with.

Don’t inspire with apprehension,
I do not have the luxury of encouraging fearful expectations.

We might have one – forcing its threshold...
I’ve had the drive to push forward for so long. Why now… am I giving in, giving up this fight? True is this - boundaries are only as we imagine them.

- Love and compassion a vital quality
Interesting traits… do they really exist?

Purity and Innocence, a distinguishing feature...
Forsaken me - these have done.

Life has a path ‘to each its own’.
To claim it as mine… this I do not choose.
Ours dreams lose their way, To say I’ve had them once – I guess in ‘goals’ I did.

Legacies ‘somewhere’ have become obscured...
Does such a word or belief still exist today?
For this is the 20th Century - People are not here for their names to stay...?

© 2007 Legacy

 

Reviews

[Gary H]

I have to say that I agree with Ms. Belsito after reading this. Indeed you have put together a very imaginative piece. I think the object seems to be more thought provoking that spontanous agreement of the masses. There are certainly parts that we can all debate upon and I think by writing this you have increased awareness of where we are all heading or at least could be.

[Bhavya Kaushik]

Beautiful work!!!
The style is very unique but interesting..
but..its really a good read...
Conveys a deep meaning... :)

-Bhavya

[C.R. Vard]

Very creative...the layout reminded me of those short answer questions sheets from school.

[J.L. Davenport]

Auspicious signs will then reveal,
Hmm~� this indeed, they do. Beware though� not everything appears to be an open book.

**If that isn't the honest to God truth! This one I agree with open-heartedly.**
I commend anyone who creates their own writing styles...especially where poetry is concerned. I to have no particular style, in which I am a writer only, others choose to find most of my writing poetry. I am curious, would this be a particular style?

[Anthony Morningstar]

This seems like a double talk. It seems like a self-interview which I myself find very intersting. But at the same time it's like you don't really reveal anything. You answer one of the questions with a question like you provoking yourself or either you don't really want to answer the question. It starts out all right but then it seems to lose steam at Auspicious sighns will reveal. Or at least for me. If you're trying to tick off the doors or make them seem like they are there this seems to at least us to the hallway. But you can't seem to make out the doors like the light is turned off or there's that hum of the flicker of flourescent lights and seems to bug me more then anything. Good concept but then again so was using lead in gasoline.

[Misty]

unique style. thoughts within layed out.

[angelina neves]

What am I searching for? � well, too many things! But one of them is to understand how to use the "magic powers" I have in the best way I can!
Is there immorality? � for me there is no need of "morals" but of "respect for life", that is all! I would only put a "rule, law, moral" that would guide human beings: "don't do to others what you wouldn't like them to do to you." FULL STOP. And who ever couldn't follow this is a sick person and should be cared for in some hospital, by some specialist� there are too many sick people and mostly because of the so called "morals" that are imposed to them, I think!
I can "stand and recognize" because I have the privilege of managing my life, of thinking, of not being afraid of standing up for my opinions� But most of the people are teach from the beginning of their lives that they are here to be "judged" by some specialized judge (gods, priests, parents, teachers, bosses, leaders�) and they are nothing and know nothing� they just have to go around following orders, laws, rules, "morals"!
Putting the "hands together and looking to the sky" and feeling "dismissed" � instead of realizing that if there is a god, you are that god and you are the one that HAS to make the miracles you want to be done�
Life is something amazingly beautiful� But we, the "thinking animals" make it difficult and try to deny all the magic it has, inventing "sacrifices", looking for "paradises" out of here and now, in the "after life" instead of looking for it where we stand� and spreading fear and pain everywhere so that you kneel down instead of stand up and open your arms to the immensity and diversity of all.
It is a luxury to understand that the finality of life is to live well with ourselves, to do how we think it is best, to be RESPONSIBLE for every single breath we take, for the fears and joys we have. And if we know we that, there is no real fight but a perpetual looking forward, studding, observing to know more about how we can do better and better for us and others� and love and compassion has to start, as everything, inside yourself, for yourself and only then it can exist to give to others, to everything around you� We can never give what we don't have, as hard as we can try�
As I see it, "purity and innocence" is in doing what comes NATURALLY to us, with out forcing anything � I would say every animal, from a bacteria, a snake, a lion, a butterfly is "pure and innocent"! And we can never be "pure and innocent" if we try hard to deny our NATURAL being!
The fantastic path of life is to be lived, the best we can, gathering the most of joy and connections and communications and knowledge we can in its short period of time we have in our hands� the goal� my goal, or the legacy I would like to live, is that we think, and if we think it is because, some how, it is VERY important to think! And to think we must QUESTION and never ever stop QUESTION! And when we question, ourselves and others and all the "morals" and rules and laws and teachings, we advance for something new and brighter!
There is no need to have a name that "will stay" (it's not possible to have all our names in "history books"! Can you imagine the ones, children mostly, that had to study them, poor things!!!) it is important to imprint our questions in the ether, so that many can breath them, that is the only ways we can "make a difference", I believe!
� Thank you sooooooooooo much for making me think and write about all these things.

Hugs from here
angi

[Robert]

I have to ask...Is this a new form or is each underlined sentence the poem with commentary beneath. If it is a new form (at least to me), I find it tremendously interesting and filled with poetential. (Pun intended).

[Bayside]

I am curious about this "infusing with-in" it is another of your poems. is it an allusion or an idea you have? i.e, what does it mean? If it's not easy to explain, I understand. I like the format of this poem too, it brings to mind a book I have about covers (like cover songs). postulating something like that and responding offers alot of message in a little area. p.s. i'm not saying you're covering anybody, but the response to a work or idea that you see in a cover, and the broad messages available in commentary are like the ones i see in the format here.

[Iain Lewis]

the questions you pose throughout are great. pricking away at the readers image of himself and his 'destiny'. i am extremely cynical about such things and i have had problems with people who tell me the ways of the world and universe, i thank you for asking, these are the questions which great minds have struggled with for centuries and i suspect always will. i look forward to reading more of your work perhaps you will read something of mine.

[Hedra Helix]

beautiful and honest. Hold strong, others see you from their tiny drifting boats and they understand your air. Rise to meet the lessons you've endured. It's hard I'm trying for the same connection and its a jump let me tell you. sucessive ones. But this helps. So it was your turn:) Thanks.