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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Perspective Stand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There are those that pass, <br>unseeing.<br>They walk blindly, <br>seeing only <br>what they hope to gain.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And for them, emptiness <br>like a dog on leash<br>will seldom stray.<br>Though still many <br>pass and see the pool.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The pool’s edges <br>are sparsely lined with damp <br>moss-covered rocks, <br>that share the bank with fern <br>and a profusion <br>of vine hosting trees.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Small native birds <br>sing within their rough embrace <br>dig for grubs among their roots, <br>which are partly hidden by fern <br>and decomposing leaves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">An idle gossiper, <br>the noisy kaka, <br>looks on watchfully.<br>While the fantail <br>flutters aimlessly <br>among the trees.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But the pigeon, so noble <br>and colourfully plumaged; does not see.<br>The brightly coloured berries <br>are all the fruits; he seeks or needs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Far above the bellbird sings, <br>sweet songster <br>your notes are like <br>the mellow chimes of tiny bells.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A tui, the parson-bird, takes up the call <br>and sings a solo, <br>complemented by the whispering wind <br>that stirs the leaves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A stunning sight <br>to gaze upon.<br>Many who chance to pass <br>are forced to stop <br>and catch their breath.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Yet though some see <br>far more than this <br>most see much less.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Others gaze across <br>the surface of the pool <br>and see wind blown ripples <br>upon the web-spun water, <br>and watch with wonder, <br>intricate patterns <br>with sheer delight.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">While a few see reflected rays <br>upon a black glassy void.<br>A dazzling web of golden light, <br>radiating out from a single point <br>light sparkles and gleams <br>within a thousand strands, <br>yet glows as one <br>star tipped and cobweb spun.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A brilliant shinning <br>phosphorescent light <br>engulfing all, though <br>there is no heat <br>nor pain of burning.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Bodily aflame, soul <br>still encased, fire <br>it is elemental key, <br>to another <br>dimension’s door.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Infinity pauses, <br>momentarily, passes <br>but for the briefest moment <br>a mere man knew <br>to forget, perhaps <br>to learn anew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Though clinging still, <br>to the realization, <br>that he momentarily knew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Still others see <br>within the pool, <br>deep within <br>its murky depths.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Some say they have seen <br>fabled bottom, <br>yet others state <br>the pool is bottomless.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Who knows? <br>A woven cloak of emerald green <br>obscures all behind its veil.<br>The visible spectrum <br>distorted, <br>is unreal within its depths.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What lies beneath <br>trapped within physical density <br>dark, obscure, coldly chilling? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Water confined and massed <br>weight of pressure bearing down <br>beyond space or time.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Compressing congealed <br>frozen poison <br>sepsis, fear inspiring, <br>yet if fear is born <br>it’s within mortal mind.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Oppression a constant <br>interplay of power.<br>Power demanding creating <br>it grows and spreads, <br>growing upon senses already <br>outweighted and raw, <br>civilizations pressures, knocking <br>on maenad mind’s inward door.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And how many are slowly sinking <br>within engulfing density, <br>forgetting who or what they are <br>as they submerge destroyed.<br>A crawling struggling mass, <br>dragging others down, <br>into soul-leaching sedimentary layer, <br>of inflammable oily peat.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But where is <br>celestial soul of man <br>is it a spark <br>a narrow beam? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Transcended to purging <br>reaches of chaos <br>it reaches putrid limit.<br>A ray of light <br>from within soul’s heart <br>aspiring must be free.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Immortal spirit <br>enslaved, crushed, endures <br>destined to ascend <br>to ultimately rise, <br>once and for all.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A path not a means <br>a part of us, <br>evolving through progressing <br>its purpose, <br>to return whence it came.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A whirling ring of fire <br>tumbling spinning <br>gathering velocity as it grows.<br>Gaining celestial height <br>till finally it touches <br>transfigured stars.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">People view life <br>from perspective stand <br>but where is acute angle <br>from which sightless see? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Culturally induced <br>to a degree, <br>yet humility and love <br>hold haloed key.<br>Ignorance and lust <br>are crippling chains <br>that need not be.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=526285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Slowly through pain, as if a torch <br>satanic links are cut <br>an individual rises free.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a></strong></div>