This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-09-06 08:22:29 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Simple Truth

Some despise truth more than           absence of honor. Feeling guile the best manner       to deny what they abhor. False characterization is all             they can do In the hopes others pay less  fairness to detail     and suffer the same deficit too. 

Copyright © September 2008 James C. Horak


This Poem was Critiqued By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2008-10-06 01:05:17
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
James, You said it all clear as a bell. Most must be deficient, in this grand old world. I dare say most have been lied to. Always I have felt this vague wrongness and yet could not figure out the problem. Being taught elders, people of authority, teachers, doctors, police, priest, popes,etc. were right/others were wrong. Trust what we say as truth. Blind faith.... So deficient we are/were. Truth is such a hard pill to swallow. But I'll swallow/straight up. Thanks to you/remarkable man. Dellena


This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Andrew Hislop On Date: 2008-09-22 20:33:17
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
JCH I wrote Economics quite independently of this. Funny how our themes match up. MAH
This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-09-12 09:17:12
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Simple Truth.....what a nice place this would be if we told the simple truth.......how twisted some words do become though in the process of beginning to end.......good subject matter with much food for thought. God Bless, Claire
This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2008-09-11 09:16:08
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
JCH, Love the rhymes, especially "honor" and "abhor." To send back to you what you said to me: subtle, subtle, subtle. But, come to think of it, I love that "do - too" rhyme perhaps even more. Instead of "to do" the right thing, it is the old "do to," the old stick it to. Wonderful reversal. Subtle, subtle, subtle. MSS
This Poem was Critiqued By: Gene Dixon On Date: 2008-09-08 19:24:20
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
James - This is a little less than exquisite, a whole lot more than merely "good." The reader gets caught in the enigma presented ...Honor cannot exist outside the presence of truth so, if one despises truth, can anything existing outside of truth be admirable? Can the dishonorable be truthful? Maybe...but only regarding their dishonor. But then...can anything a dishonorable (therefor untrustworthy) person says be believed? At any rate...this is a poem worthy of the appellation. Peace Gene
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