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Learning Is Listening

Learning is listening. Listening is wanting. Wanting is longing for capture and holding. Holding can be understanding, if we are prone to loving. Loving is everything! I, I have to start again. Learning is loving. Loving is willingness to listen. Listening is patience to hear. Hearing allows a conversation. Conversation means two people are listening. Does it? I, I have to start again. Conversation is dialog. Dialog is expressing perspective. Perspective leads to opinion. Opinion is always relative. Relative opinions suspend reality. Reality and relatives are subjective. It’s too hard to remain relative with relatives, I, I have to start again. Relativity is reality. Reality leads to focus. Focus underlies understanding. Understanding is awareness. Awareness depends on willingness. Willingness depends on longing. Longing depends on loving. Loving is everything! I, I have to start again….

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Ann Foster

Date: 6/13/2019 12:38:00 PM

Wonderful READ! Thank you very much. Went straight to my favorites... Ty. Ann

Susan Ashley

Date: 6/2/2019 6:33:00 PM

Wow! I adore this poem, Victor! It is brilliant in every way, completely captivating and engaging in the clever refrain.. 'I, I have to start again...' - love it! Your creative, stimulating and beautiful talent shines in this piece. A big fav! Warmest wishes always.. ~Susan

Victor Van Beuren
Date: 6/2/2019 8:03:00 PM

Thank you, Susan. I really appreciate your comments. This is a funny piece. It's about the closest to Hip-Hop i'll ever get. Ha! It's the staccato rhythm, spoken by someone gushing that got me going. Adding a line to each verse was a challenge, and fun.