"What truths initiate are legacies but what lies initiate are fallacies"
"If you do not know the truth then you haven't met with understanding"
"We prey on our unawareness of truth by using our ignorance against the ignorant (i.e. ourselves and others)”
"Ignorance is far away from knowledge, and knowledge needs effort to attain understanding and when understanding is at its peak, its creativity is only a derivative of its understanding-interpretation not knowledge, because knowledge alone can only initiate creativity but cannot establish-complete creativity in the first place"
"Wisdom is knowing, understanding and doing-realizing the truth (continuous learning process), knowledge is enough to keep one away from some fallacies, but understanding helps-guides toward discovery"
“The understanding of the music of love is the beginning of-induces orderliness”
“In most individuals the love for music does not always equate their understanding of the music of love”
“When the understanding of the music of love equates that of the love of-for music then
the truth has prevailed”
"The mimicry of music is dance"
“Instrumental music persistently always refers to time, makes comparison with time or
makes reference with or to time”
“To musicians letters become musical notes and words musical sounds”
"To musicians sounds become templates"
Carefully her inner eyes glistened
As the music proceeded with utmost preference
The swift glissandos had cured and decorated her existence bare
Naked, she looked all alone
Beautifully stunned in awe appreciation of the “musical dew of silence”
The food of renewal for the soul
And as the chords rose
She was in no doubt lost in-between intertwining rainbows
While the orchestra proceeded
Blindfolding her visions in missions of star lights,
She appeared color stunned
Now I know that she had understood the essence and relationship between music and colors
As the waves and ripples brought her a gift of soothing relief from every form of grief
What some never achieve
Her inner self gradually awoke calm yet in crescendo with the music
And as the music descended
It unfurled with tears of understanding humbly from all eyes in diminuendo
Further magnified by the resounding applause dispersed in thunderous appreciation
Sealing the finale with a wholehearted emotional and heartfelt release ….
When poetry is written,
it mainly comes from the heart.
It's triggered by emotions and thoughts,
composed by the mind, written by the hand.
Poetry states a fact and reveals opinions,
it's music and art mixed into a concoction to touch souls.
Poetry can be written by a liar,
but be so true and honest.
The words can hurt, sting, or burn,
they can melt a heart, warm a soul, or bring out a smile.
Poetry comes natural to a real poet,
if not the art does not flow and may miss a soul or two.
When poetry is written,
it mainly comes from the heart.
It's triggered by emotions, thoughts and experiences,
composed and pieced together by mind, written and revealed by hand.
Poetry states facts and reveals opinions, out there to connect,
it's spoken music and written art, used to touch souls,
*inspired by the quote:
"The poet is a liar that always speaks the truth."
-Jean Cocteau
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