This Poem was Submitted By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2008-02-15 22:01:17 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!
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The Wedding Who holds and hides the dirty little secrets
That stretch across time like a rubber band?
Pinching life tight in its strangle hold.
Hidden from the average man
He swallows effortlessly the massive lies
Who among us wishes to live the evil?
Tunes of malevolence play tirelessly
for centuries, as backdrop to each day
Downward gravity pulls: led to dead.
Flowers still grow and the children play
Darkness is hiding within the day
Fearful, coping, unseeing, we move away
We question some but never burrow
To find our needful, most personal answers
To all the questions swirling about ………….in our head
With ambiguity we are wed.
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Copyright © February 2008 Dellena Rovito
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-03-04 21:14:13
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.00000
A most delightful line, "With ambuguity we are wed." We certainly are.
Frightfully so many really never come to question, an option, "...to
live the evil." It is bizarre they don't.
The light question and the too easy capitulation to not finding the answer...
well that's the tired state of a coward's research. No guts for hard
truth. The media mongrels get away with it, why shouldn't the academics?
Everyone has a stake in hiding from truth.
Oh, but for a wee bit of courage and a modicum of honor!
Good instincts expressed well with justified shimmerings of moral outrage.
Just as you found the truth out about Hillary Clinton, monster that she is,
taking the time to do so, our mindless fellow victims to her and her moral
imbecillic husband's two terms (already)of treason and murderous crimes,
drown in their own sewer like ignorance of abiding by what they are told
and not what can be observed with the slightest diligence.
And that's what's lacking, diligence.
What the men leave purely to sporting contests and the women find of no
use if it doesn't hide a wrinkle.
Doing to their children what has been done their personal freedoms and hopes
for an American dream.
Yes, my dear, if most had to justify their opinions they wouldn't have acquired
literacy. You know, that might not be so bad.
JCH
This Poem was Critiqued By: Lora Silvey On Date: 2008-02-27 13:21:36
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Dellena,
Some very deep thoughts here, poignant, sage and spot on. Enjoyed this easy read. My favorite line has to be your closing line for it really sums the whole up. Brava!
Lora
This Poem was Critiqued By: Duane J Jackson On Date: 2008-02-24 00:29:57
Critiquer Rating During Critique: Unknown
Hi Dellena,
'with ambiguity, we are wed'....true and well said !!
Indeed, there is a lot of hide and seek in this life...but more is hidden than we are able to seek..there will therefore, always be a void of 'why, how, when and where'...at any given point...and yet, you offer a solution...just look with the self..and the answers were never hiding in the first place...nice thought.
Duane.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Robin Ann Crandell On Date: 2008-02-18 23:19:12
Critiquer Rating During Critique: Unknown
Interesting and makes me think. Thanks for sharing as this poem was very much enjoyed.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2008-02-16 21:59:51
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Dellena,
As I read this the music I kept hearing in my head was the voice of the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind. I wonder if you had that music in your head when you wrote this - particularly where the Lord talks about, I believe, something like measuring the bounds of the sea (?) when it was created. Well, even if you didn't consciously have it in mind, it would be enough if you read it. A most effective use of allusion, brilliant in its conception.
There should be no place for ambiguity in moral determination. To find that place, however, may take time for honest reasons of exploration in the face of conflicting claims. I say may, and it can. Of course, some don't give a damn about the right course of action, as long as the course selected leads to self advancement.
Now, once we get out of the realm of moral determination, and wander into the realm of metaphysics, it is there that ambiguity, it appears to me, prevails. To acknowledge that, and remain in the ambiguity without imposig a metaphsical determination upon it (a creed or myth that one asserts to be true, rather than useful in freeing one's imaginative potential, true enough but in a nonexclusive sense) - to me that is honesty, and not a fault.
Interesting.
As I said, I found the use of Job, the use of the allusion, brilliant. If you did not intend it - incredible coincidence.
As to the way the poem is put together, it didn't knock me out. But I can be picky. :)
MSS
This Poem was Critiqued By: Rene L Bennett On Date: 2008-02-15 22:13:10
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Dellena! I read this twice. It is beautiful. Perfect title too. Questions, don't you wish they would just go away sometimes. They can be haunting. At least to me they can be and I have always questioned alot. I enjoy reading your work and again, your metaphors are perfect.
Always,
Rene'
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