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contradictions

by George Hoerner

contradictions
grow within me
and like a rock i
throw myself at the world
as bits and pieces
fall all around
there is no luster
and no shine left

as water i feel
wet and wild
cold and clear
i once was clay
soft and pliable
but i slipped away
and now am
cracked and crusty

i am now and later
before and after
like original sin
finite and in........
the mystery in the mist
the lost and the found

i am destiny
both death and life
the darkness
in the candle
and the light
the known and un
the sound but
mostly the silence
flowing from
this pen

02/08/2008

Posted on 02/14/2008
Copyright © 2024 George Hoerner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Charlie Morgan on 02/14/08 at 09:42 PM

...george, i wished i'd penned this one...the yin yang of existence...we are alllll the things that you speak to annnd maybe, just maybe a smidgen more!!! nice, nice, write, very encompassing of the human condition...like neil diamond says: 'i am, i said'...well written, peace, chaz

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 02/14/08 at 09:43 PM

...annnd the very beginning is still ringing in mehead...what a true, true, true statement...what are we but contradictions...a tall pome! chaz

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 02/14/08 at 10:55 PM

Yes... and I love the last four lines.

Posted by Mary Frances Spencer on 02/15/08 at 12:17 AM

Another great write! I love the "known and un"...MFS

Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 02/15/08 at 01:17 AM

Very nicely put. It is our nature to be contradictory I think.

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