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Question: While truth can be confusing, would you please comment on the poem itself!?
Confusing Truth
Truth is found in words
yet none can define it!.
Truth is said to be relative
yet to whom is it a kin!?
Truth is often searched for
yet it is never lost!.
Truth is passive, being
yet wars are fought in its name
Truth never waivers
yet changes with the times
Truth is not a "what"
yet within a Whom, perhaps!?
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Okay, will do!.
Truth is passive, being!.!.!.!.!.seems an odd place for a comma (why 'being' at all!?)
yet is found within a 'whom'
(make a definite statement!.!.!.poetically it will work better!.!.!.by saying 'perhaps' you weaken your argument)
I would find it very difficult to write something like this!.!.!.because each statement is profound, and needs a lot of thought!.!.!.counter-arguments would cloud my mind!.!.!.!.!.eg none can define it!.!.!.see, I immediately start to think 'yes, they can' !.!.!.the relative/kin thing is clever!.!.!.I like it when some-one sees a word and presents it in a different light!.
The repetition works well!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
great poem!. really great!.!.!.
other than that I am left with no words!. I was about to say that 'whoever who died for truth never knew the truth'!. but i cant say that because i dont know the truth!. I was about to say that 'whoever who searched for truth where fooled by disguised lies'!. but i cant say that too because i dont know the truth!.
Newton, the great scientist who pursued truth, writes it like this
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me"
Yes!.
The vast ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me!.
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Someone once said to me, "What is erotic to one, is pornographic to another!."
Apparently, what is a question to one, is not to Yahoo 'standards!.'
Ironic then that my first thought upon reading your poem was "How true!."
The truth to me, which counts for naught, is that you have summed up the entire paradox quite perfectly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
We all have our own Truths!. The secret is how to be true to your Truth, while accepting the Truth of another as equally valid!. Otherwise, people tend to be burned at the stake, or beheaded, or imprisoned, or exiled,
or any of the other horrible things humans do to each other, especially when you have the TRUTH!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Absolutely beautiful!. To me the best section is this for in these words I could feel what you say in such a polished manner!.t
Truth is passive, being
yet wars are fought in its name
Truth never waivers
yet changes with the times
Truth is not a "what"
yet within a Whom, perhaps!?
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I kind of like it!. Though the poem ironically purports to state the truth about truth, it fails to!. Truth is often times lost!. Wars are fought based on lies and propaganda!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Truth is in the eye of the beholder!. And, on the Grecian Urn, "Beauty is truth!. Truth is beauty!."Www@QuestionHome@Com
I fear Jack Nicholson was right when he said that we can't handle the truth!. Unfortunately, the truth is lost!.!.!.!.far too often!. Sometimes it's very difficult to determine where the truth "lies"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I must now bow low and kiss the feet of a poet who can write such profound words as these!. Beautiful words from a beautiful lady!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Well said, well put!.
And if I may add :
Truth may keep you lonely!.!.may leave you a lone!.!. not a friend around!.!.yet, you may feel good and better off!.!.you nay feel proud!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Have you ever thought about going into politics!? There's a party out there that could really use your words!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
There is no single Truth with a capital T!. Truth is a concept, an ideal!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Image is perception
Perception is reality
Reality is!.!.!.!.!.!.
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This is TRULY great!
Yes, truth lies within!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Great wordplay on truth!.
If truth knocks
will you answer!?
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