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Context and Intention

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Context and intention made to add dimension To give arguments balance and a view For its where we are coming from that determine where we go and determine how we treat people too No one hears an argument that's meant to hurt and few validate intentions that are mean Life is not meant to be energy pettily spent and discussion that contains not a hill of beans If you engage and run into your rage that haze will forever control how you talk but if you engage and reach out to grasp you pull the other in with real thought For no one person is wholly right nor the other wholly wrong but you surely gain more opponents with smoke and steam And you attract more flies when you speak without lies and from the heart with an open mind For communication isnt unless its heard, acknowledged and returned and nothing gained by immature acting out A discussion after all Is rational dialog by all And a monolog is just a vent Context and Intention - Artimus Susan Manley (C) September 19, 2007

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Date: 9/16/2023 8:26:00 AM
Just love your poem.Each line is so true.Thank you so much for sharing it here.Have a great day and keep smiling :)
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Susan Manley
Date: 9/18/2023 2:58:00 PM
Thanks Kenisha, I like to fold some of my personal philosophy into poetry to unleash on the world. It can make people think, especially when they are just busy preaching and not really interacting.
Date: 9/15/2023 11:22:00 PM
So very true. I love it!
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Susan Manley
Date: 9/18/2023 2:59:00 PM
Thanks Jeanine, and thanks for the invite to Poetry Soup. Lots of interesting poetry up here!

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