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A Blind Heart's Truth

A heart laden with hatred
can see nothing even in the brightest of light
for prejudice is darker than the moonless night

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Short and sweet. The title describes the poem perfectly. Very philosophical.

I also like the brevity and unobtrusive rhyme. Something you can consider is changing "presence of" to brightest. ........stan

now it sounds much better...

Alid

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'A heart laden with
hatred
can see nothing
even in the presence
of light
for prejudice
is darker
than the moonless
night'

I liked the simple elegance of this piece...excuse me playing with the structure to emphasise certain words for effect.

Namaste, Ellie :)

what is namaste? does it mean regards? I've heard it somewhere but I don't think its in English.well , just for the fun of it i'll say " terima kaseh banyak- banyak". in my language (Malay) that means "thank you very much", learning new language is fun to me..

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Namaste...."peace"

Sort of New Age/Bhuddist

Very true.
I liked for their brevity, but don't let Wesley know :)

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why not?

Alid

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is kind of irritated whenever poems shrink. He likes lengthy poems and epics if you want.
Have you read any of his "CACO, Man of the morning star?"

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words
........Robert Frost☺

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not yet,,, actually I'm refraining from writing long poems now and then because of family commitments which always make me somewhat in a rush, i don't know how to express my ideas without them coming out as prose and at times I feel like I'm not that good to write with my grammar and vocab being so limited. I need to get a new thesaurus but with my tight budget, it will take awhile to save up for it..for now i'm going with my priorities and that means family comes first. I do have a lot of ideas but its putting them into words that is difficult....

Alid

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A heart with hatred
can see nothing in bright light
prejudice is dark

hope you like it.

cheers,
Jess
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aren't haiku supposed to be connected to nature? what is the difference between haiku and seiyu?

Alid

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and senryu are to do do with foibles of human nature, often satirical. However the forms are no longer strict. Even the the five/seven/five syllables lines are no longer strict.
I merely offered it as another way of looking at your poem in an even more succinct form,

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

got you.

Alid

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