True Lord? : Revision

[anzki4]

True Lord?
-Revision

"Lord will be with you",
everyone keeps saying.
I want to see His light too,
but apparently, it`s too dim.

Could someone tell me,
how to know One, amongst million.
I want to be good, deep in.
But how, if I always search on.

What if I find the Lord.
Does my mind bend
to his will? Can I anymore
believe in the servant`s He sends.

I hope, that one day,
I can see the face of the truth.
That would fill it all,
if indeed, the quest, some day ends.


Note: I posted this yesterday to thread "True Lord?", but yesterday it had under ten views. Because everyone interested had already checked it?

Anyway here it is. Any thoughts?

[blazeofglory]

If the quest ends then what? The quest is a never ending journey. The poem flows superbly and finally it confuses the reader. Once we alight from the quest is there anywhere we settle? A poem is not as explicit as a piece of prose and the writer can be justified even if the meaning is couched, yet here the way the poet ends up with is simply confounding the reader. Maybe the poet himself can demystify it

[anzki4]

Well, I admit it is quite two-folded, but so is the Quest. If you never quit it, you can´t be right. If you always search and and jump from one belief to another. That way the only way to be right is to accept one belief. However if you stop the search when you find the "OK answer", even though you see it`s loopholes and discrepancies, you can`t be right either. So can you actually be right ? I don`t know; I just continue the search until I find the truth.

[Bar22do]

Anzki, you are persistent at your work, bravo. I think what you're trying to say is that once you have found your truth, your search doesn't necessarily end but changes direction and what once was horizontal search from one tradition to another becomes a vertical one, a deepening process where real growth takes place because you have found "your" well, wherefrom to drink the precise waters that match your soul... correct me if I'm wrong and for the time being - all my good wishes to you!

[Hayseed Huck]

Why do writers avoid prose and arrange theur
ideas and questions to look like poetry?

This is prose, prose prose prose prose.

Prose carries such content as gloriously
as poetry carries.

Prose is better.

I say write prose. Leave off poetry.

But, I live in Arkansas-- so what do I know?

But I did graduate from the 8th grade.

HH

[Il Dante]

Why do writers avoid prose and arrange theur
ideas and questions to look like poetry?

This is prose, prose prose prose prose.

Prose carries such content as gloriously
as poetry carries.

Prose is better.

I say write prose. Leave off poetry.

But, I live in Arkansas-- so what do I know?

But I did graduate from the 8th grade.

HH

The thing about prose and poetry—like art—is that because it is a human creation we can define it however we want. It is not like the sun, which exists objectively from us and simply is what it is regardless of how we define it.

Art, prose, and poetry, however, are different. They are made up by humans. They have, with respect to us, a contingent existence. Therefore we can define them however we wish.

So free verse and blank verse are considered poetry by many. And there is nothing wrong with that.

[anzki4]

Thank you all for your critic, although I don`t accept all of it.(Hayseed):)