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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Against Stale Current</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Essential is it to unite <br>to pressing questions answers which<br>may open roads to knowledge, might<br>prepare fulfillment shared and rich.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unused to being understood, <br>his insight into others bores, <br>the trees he sees, ignores not wood<br>nor would - for blinkers he abhors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sense of purpose has withstood<br>positions frozen, - chosen doors<br>open on mission, inner good<br>opposing pride and rotten cores. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against stale 'current', with hale stream<br>of light and life he'd soar serene, <br>is it surprising that such gleam<br>untouched remains, unshared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(25 December 1997 robi03_0859_robi03_0000 XXX_JXX) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lonely One Wanders <br>Lonely, one wanders through cowed crowd, <br>awaiting some supportive rays, <br>with warmth, complicity endowed -<br>beamed circlet lighthouse dream replays.<br>Absent present, head in cloud, <br>through surface calm true strength displays<br>both strong emotions, soul unbowed, <br>balm soothing offers, hope relays. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One threads paths strange, by most unploughed, <br>transforming fallow fields in ways<br>astonishing to assets vowed<br>as fertile, fruitfulness which stays<br>abundant, want, waste disavowed.<br>Prosperity which rich repays<br>time, trouble, taken, cries aloud<br>for friendship solitude allays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perception, seldom understood, <br>with insight into others bores, <br>trees, wood unsawed seen, both bad, good, <br>subjective blinkers lack bed, board. <br>Enlightenment misdeeds withstood, <br>to ploughshare turns destructive sword, <br>shouldâ€™s soon converted into would, <br>hermit crabbiness abhorred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Empowerment, autonomy <br>seem second nature more than choice, <br>where waft and weft of destiny<br>are woven pattern for fair voice<br>whose song weighs conscienciously<br>opinions, never can rejoice<br>when others meet adversity<br>or by their own petard are hoist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beside too few abide, for team<br>teems more in fable, ghost minds blind, <br>prefer free-ride to truth most deem<br>outside their comfort zone assigned.<br>Holistic overview from dream<br>one draws, ignores or flouts doubts signed <br>by compromises that unwind<br>before ink dries on double-bind.<br> <br>Too few acknowledge inner scream, <br>most stifle intuitions, grind<br>out differences which could cream<br>distill from hodgepodge unrefined.<br>If equity proves empty dream, <br>integrity is left behind, <br>returns to realm of abstract theme, <br>commitments frequently unwind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Modestly both present, past, <br>reviewed may help anticipate<br>events and causes few forecast, <br>attempting to alleviate<br>lifeâ€™s swings and roundabouts, voids vast. <br>Steadfast character berates<br>cant, crippling censorship, aghast <br>stands firm â€˜gainst those whoâ€™d confiscate<br>first fruits, turn holiday to fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deceptive calm. True tenets try<br>to comprehend and to translate, <br>communicate, so none fight shy<br>of fighting prejudice and hate - <br>though truth is twisted or denied<br>by those who would prevaricate<br>to profit take, rake on the side<br>unjustified tithe, title, bait. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Discriminating wrong from right <br>answers are sought to questions answers which<br>source open ways enlightened, might<br>seed needsâ€™ fulfillment keyed to stitch<br>alternatives that help highlight<br>unfair advantages the rich<br>would fain retain though strain and blight<br>oâ€™er homeless flimsy tents would pitch. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Intense ideals, although unbowed, <br>seem rarely shared so seldom aired, <br>are vital cornerstones - aloud <br>opinions harsh are seldom bared.<br>Ignorant idols unkowtowed, <br>one wanders on and wonders much<br>why most dream themes seem disallowed, <br>or come at cost too few dare touch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sure sense of purpose thus defends<br>rights compromised by bolted door, <br>positions frozen, falsehoodâ€™s friends, <br>by outlaw oligarchyâ€™s war<br>on equity which now extends<br>to earthquake victims. To the poor<br>assistance actively one lends, <br>emancipation to restore<br>high principles, trust never bends<br>to pride ride bridle, rotten core, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rejecting pinions, hot-air steam, <br>against life's gales hale see free stride <br>beyond cross-purposes, hope's stream<br>all bridges crossed. Too few abide<br>beside, prove worthy, play for team.<br>Collective mirage seems allied<br>to wishful thinking, phantom scheme<br>un-underwritten, misapplied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against trends 'current', spendthrift schemes, <br>where hamstrung choice finds voice tongue-tied, <br>one soars serene, scorns narrow themes<br>where, open options set aside, <br>hopeâ€™s scopeâ€™s imperilled â€“ dark extremes<br>vie for empowerment beside<br>vested interests harsh regimesâ€™<br>remorseless moral homicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emancipation - theme supreme - <br>contests solutions cut and dried, <br>detests unprincipled blaspheme, <br>phantom philosopheme denied<br>awareness of all self-esteem, <br>castration covert, faith defied. <br>Is it surprising that oneâ€™s gleam<br>remains unshared...? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(25 December 1997 revised 1 July 2007,4 December 2008,21 October 2009 and 26 January 2010) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lonely She Wanders<br>Against the wind, fads disavowed, <br>with insight deep, she weaves dream theme -<br>unbeaten paths by most unploughed -<br>refusing pinions, empty steam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unused to being understood, <br>her insight into others bores, <br>the trees she sees, ignores not wood<br>nor would - for blinkers she abhors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Absent present, head in cloud<br>world windy winds while surface calm<br>veils strong emotions, soul uncowed, <br>yet ever seeking soothing balm.<br> <br>Deceptive calm. Her tenets try<br>to understand and to translate, <br>so all unite, so none fight shy<br>of fighting prejudice and hate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lonely, she wanders through the crowd, <br>expecting understanding's rays, <br>with warmth, complicity endowed...<br>dreamâ€™s lighthouse beam forever plays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Essential is it to unite <br>to pressing questions answers which<br>may open roads to knowledge, might<br>prepare fulfillment shared and rich.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If her ideals intense, unbowed, <br>notions deep, seem seldom shared, <br>each is important, though aloud <br>opinions harsh are rarely aired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sense of purpose has withstood<br>positions static, - chosen doors<br>open on mission, inner good<br>opposing pride and rotten cores. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ignoring idols unkowtowed <br>she wanders on and wonders much<br>why most dream themes are disallowed, <br>come at a price too few dare touch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(1 July 2007 version Lonely She Wanders and <br>25 December 1997 Lonely He Wanders)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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