Seven Revisited

A reading

Seven Revisited

To read and hear this poem, please click the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZniKNa7TM&list=UU8rAsV8Dot4MbmtGZOA0UlQ

Seven Revisited is published in Monsters and available from amazon.com

Author's Note

Perhaps it is time we took another look at the sins of ego. Discussion very much welcomed.

Reviews

[redzone]

I enjoy the sound of your voice in these poems Pryde, you do have a reading voice which enhances your words and their meaning.... as for a conversation on ego, sins, etc.. this is a discussion that is definitely needed but also one that does not lend itself to short, or off the cuff answers. But if to actually share and learn things from every angle, then more is required. There are two main approaches to this I think (more, but 2 main ones), idealism that is ideas divorced from the material reality of the real world and materialism, looking and understanding reality and it's changingness and based on this (as best we can at any particular time) changing this reality through action, struggle, etc.

In this materialist view, there is no sin, and no static human nature and so even self and self interests change according to the changes in the world. And further it is not so much as case of know thyself, as it is a confront and change the world and in the process you can and will also change yourself. While on the surface this seems like just verbal changing the order of how you express things, it really is a world of difference and you can really not affect things if just trying to change people's thinking without changing the world that gives rise to this thinking.. in other words, changing reality and changing thinking...

From the time humans started to converse and express themselves to each other in art, language, music etc., there has been debate and struggle over these ideas of knowing and being... I like Marx"s statement that philosophers have only looked to explain the world. The point is to change it!

Just a beginning in this discussion Pryde. The world is indeed a horror for literally billions, and in real need of radical change, including in themselves as well. I live by this point of view: "Fight the power, and transform the people for revolution". All three parts of this view are linked and necessary if we truly want a different and better world...

So I welcome both your views on this (as expressed in your poem and as you have read them) and your invite for there to be much needed discussion on this as well. Maybe, there can be a different culture developed here at WC and all the snarkiness and plagiarism, and innuendo and attacks on people can be done away with so that we can create and enjoy our potential....
~~redzone

[Pryde Foltz]

Here, here, Curt. I will definitely feature your review. I agree we need a revolution … but first the revolution must be felt within. Perhaps there can be some change as we go along, but definitely we must find our finer selves first … wrestle it from the ego. An individual bound to her ego … is easily manipulated … one transcended from ego … impossibly so. History has shown with revolution after coup that nothing changes but the dictator until we learn to rule ourselves.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, the sins. A good reading, wonderful presentation. And a philosophy worth thinking about, we get the things we most want if we don't try so hard to run after them.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, KL … yes true happiness and enlightenment requires true openness. Very true words.

[NoelHC]

Well played, in how you tied the Seven together, and as I have mentioned before, your reading voice is pleasant, strong, and interesting to listen to.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Noel:)

[Latifa]

very well written, I loved it thank you for sharing

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Latifa. I do hope you enjoyed the audio:)

[Latifa]

oh yes ,I did

[MomzillaNC]

Well penned. You're spoken delivery was good.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Mama Di.

[MomzillaNC]

You're welcome.

I've posted the beginnings of my first story ("Working Title") -- the epic that goes with lyrics of "Shariara's Lament"

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Dante would know how to deal with such sins. A poem with wisdom and as tad of religious vigour perhaps?

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, John. Wisdom, I hope. Religious vigour … I hope not … faith … yes. But I think even for the atheist there is something in this piece. Although I cage it within Biblical reference … the message is one of humanity and not of any one religion.