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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tract on Attraction 2009 Version</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tract on Attraction: Action sans Reaction, Traction sans Retraction, Contract without Contraction</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which of Fate or Freewill omnipotent<br>presides over mice, men, their lice? <br>lets cat out of the bag for man, rodent, <br>as ‘coincidence' seals in a trice<br>the links in life's chain hindsight searches<br>for clues to life answers which slip<br>through the fingers of those on high perches<br>who mistake wraith and faith in Time's trip.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Causal links back from brink of disaster<br>may ignorance lead for fresh chance, <br>or well-meaning statistics may faster<br>end heartbeat that longs to advance.<br>Time and tide on life's ride look with laughter<br>soul weighed against feather askance, <br>what of trust, what of comfort, years after<br>bluster bubble burst, rust busts life's dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is autonomy graved on one's headstone<br>when reckoning's levelled at last? <br>may subservience soften cast dice bone<br>when Book of Life's fate is forecast? <br>Should moral advice from friends, neigbours, <br>be sought though their cupboards may hide<br>scary skeletons fitful, their favours<br>depend on fears, tears, which abide? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who'll stand tall, strip dark pall which of Lethe<br>is banner, both emblem and shroud? <br>Who will brave phrase and fable beneath the <br>grief stricken furrows Time's ploughed<br>to find behind lines of dull verses, <br>and puffs precommissioned for press, <br>life's sparkle discarding dark hearses <br>rehearsing love's carefree caress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of Spring, winging warmly to Summer, <br>Autumn heralding Winter's iced earth, <br>Hope must spurn dust dearth bye li[n]e Death's drummer<br>would bequeath, see[the] mirth's seasons rebirth? <br>Will doors open as destiny flashes<br>top trump card retained in life's game? <br>will we win, or receive forty lashes<br>administered transient fame? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many fall by the way - beauty's lashes<br>in time close their lids, lose their name.<br>Many call all in vain, whose wrath rash is, <br>soon prostrate Fate halts hale and lame.<br>Why recall tortured tears on fear's faces, <br>in wide eyes, eyes tight shuttered in dread? <br>seek beyond Time's dark veil, hark rhyme's voices<br>turns trust to true welcome ahead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn again to true origins timeless, <br>far from copyright stereotype, <br>from prose superficial and rhymeless, <br>from deception, the moment is ripe! <br>Turn to threads needing no explanation<br>spurning blame box so shamefully bland, <br>rediscover sweet seedbed sensation, <br>inner growth which must ever expand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Respond, over-reach blind reaction<br>which limits horizons, instead, <br>key energy into true traction<br>to free voice for choice which, all said, <br>may find underlined elevation, <br>undefined undefinable, yet<br>as a visa free passport salvation<br>cedes no stamp, needs nor hedges, nor bet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are times when our rhymes run away with<br>the message sense sends, on a limb, <br>but heed tone-tune seed-songs we would play with<br>to muse on Fate's pantomime whim.<br>Through a watershed chapter Man's surfing<br>the cusp of a paradigm change, <br>will the challenge be met or shall serfing<br>be the lot of a lot who'd free range? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be you dream, be you dreamer, redeemer, <br>explorer, discovering way<br>may two, tender, together t[r]end, team a<br>twinned portrait or landscape soft, fey.<br>Insight spurns tight classification<br>anticipations pre-defined, <br>transcends commonplace separation<br>living for, through, true shared open mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is string, who strum strung, who dumb stringer? <br>Intelligent is the design? <br>What means now the Ring? what dead-ringer<br>may surf on what surface benign<br>to rise and surprise Man the Maker, <br>no longer Miss Taker defined<br>who feeds on greed's ferment, the baker<br>of need for need, boredom resigned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Carpe Diem or ‘follow the leader'<br>for threescore and ten, self deny? <br>contradict or obey Fate, fey feeder<br>of ambitions its sense should defy? <br>Take time out or with diligence follow<br>obligations that others impose <br>though their meanings at best echo hollow<br>when, mature, sensitivity flows? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wheel turns, returns pot to skilled potter, <br>earns urns as Fate's karma plays out, <br>one more page in tale inking Time's blotter<br>one more stage as clock runs roundabout.<br>Wheel turns, driving destiny's plotter, <br>lays groundwork renewal throughout, <br>round grounds gambol beaver, coon, otter, <br>whose sons suns tomorrow daren't doubt.<br>It is not for this tale to continue, <br>quest request seems sufficient as here<br>through new search sterner stuff, tougher sinew, <br>rewards, helps Hope's fires to shine clear.<br>So we end what may well prove beginning<br>of some saga both pregnant, half-hid, <br>trusting to rainbow bridge for free-singing<br>enlightened, that naught need forbid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(1 April 2009)</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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