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Bright Lies and Silent Cries

Written: January 12, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Colored earth lies in fragmented bits gold and silver just out of reach acid obsessions, our souls leach. Transience of fame ephemerality of human existence provoke a poignant admission~ of forgetfulness. . . Endless craving leads to fits we desire what lies beyond the glass crystalline dreams soon turn to brass. This underscores transient nature of personal memory & impact beyond lifetime intensifying emotional weight it declares universal truth of inevitable fading & human goals significance. Out of reach is cold glitz gems sparkle with deceiving light while riches bear to flight Dreadful dinotherium— a world of awe, indented as a saw it could hardly fail or poorly flail when we slid and tumbled Fossils emerge; we were born to walk — stay close; never stray~ Mining delusions uncovers depths into gloom, our hopes fall chains of rescue remain beyond recall Lost in searching our wits blind us to love by our side, treasures magnified

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/15/2025 1:06:00 PM

Lots of excellent imagery in your profound poetry here, Sotto. I bet this one does very well in the contest.

Michael Tor

Date: 1/13/2025 5:32:00 PM

Lasaad your Poetry intellect is like a few here, exceptional my friend. Metaphors that are unique in sending a very thoughtful message to the reader. Repeatedly you are able to construct them and convey your thoughts. You take us through meaningless wants humans desire, not realizing our God given life to be treasured. Excellent my friend as always your unique and impressive Poetry is always appreciated by this reader. God bless you and your family...

Duke Beaufort

Date: 1/13/2025 8:59:00 AM

SP I do like how you describe all the failures of human craving. You even develop and ozymandius-like theme about "inevitable fading." Indeed the true treasure we have is life itself and the "love by our side." Hopefully, we can celebrate that and be satisfied! BTW, who would possibly want to surround themselves with dreams turned to brass? Someone comes to mind and it reflects the worst part of our corrosive culture. Hope you are well, sir! You are wise and incredibly intelligent.

Ink Empress

Date: 1/13/2025 7:51:00 AM

Dear dr sotto, firstly i love the arrangement of lines throughout this poem, so creative and simple lines that convey so much here in this poem makes this a deeply meaningful one that flows just effortlessly! So much depth in your words and i especially loved the lines "gems sparkle with deceiving light while riches bear to flight Dreadful dinotherium— a world of awe," they convey so much in such an intriguing manner. Made me pause and ponder! An excellent and very philosophical poem! Love the descriptive diction and use of words! Pleasure reading you today! Sending you light always

Arthur Vaso

Date: 1/12/2025 10:07:00 PM

Now this is a philosophical poem, one has to read many times to ponder the multiple meanings.

Paige Hind

Date: 1/12/2025 7:29:00 PM

I love love love this. "we desire what lies beyond the glass crystalline dreams soon turn to brass."...."Dreadful dinotherium— a world of awe, indented as a saw"...need I say more? :)