Comments for Blind Poets Blog http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com Welcome to Blind Poet's Blog Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:20:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on He still lives by Emily http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/he-still-lives-2/#comment-35 Emily Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:20:09 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/he-still-lives-2/#comment-35 WOW. I was just randomly googling nz poetry and came across your blog!! It's amazing. Your poetry is beautiful, so honest. What makes it really strange though is that you used to teach me music!! Totally freaked me out when I saw your photo lol. That line; 'And in the silence know He still lives...', made me cry. There is so much in my life that I regret, but often I think I fail to remember that even in the quiet and in the stillness Jesus is there for us. Thank you for the reminder =P. You have such a talent, may God bless you so incredibly much! WOW. I was just randomly googling nz poetry and came across your blog!! It’s amazing. Your poetry is beautiful, so honest. What makes it really strange though is that you used to teach me music!! Totally freaked me out when I saw your photo lol. That line; ‘And in the silence know He still lives…’, made me cry. There is so much in my life that I regret, but often I think I fail to remember that even in the quiet and in the stillness Jesus is there for us. Thank you for the reminder =P. You have such a talent, may God bless you so incredibly much!

]]> Comment on It’s been a while by Thea http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/its-been-a-while/#comment-28 Thea Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:51:19 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/its-been-a-while/#comment-28 Hello Blind Poet Yes people look the same all over the world until you dig deeper! I too feel the alienation here in the States people here are distant a bit stoic and sometimes just cold. But there are a few treasures here as well. Hello Blind Poet
Yes people look the same all over the world until you dig deeper! I too feel the alienation here in the States people here are distant a bit stoic and sometimes just cold. But there are a few treasures here as well.

]]> Comment on The Wounded Warrior by Jayna http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/the-wounded-warrior/#comment-27 Jayna Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:39:50 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/the-wounded-warrior/#comment-27 Just dropping by.Btw, you website have great content! ______________________________ THIS IS A DREAM JOB! No gimmicks. No catch. <a href="http://dom.ir/2889" rel="nofollow">Work from home whenever you want!</a> Just dropping by.Btw, you website have great content!

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THIS IS A DREAM JOB! No gimmicks. No catch. Work from home whenever you want!

]]> Comment on Y is it? by iheartfilm http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/y-is-it/#comment-26 iheartfilm Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:55:29 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/y-is-it/#comment-26 I hang like a heavy chain around your neck. Nice lines. <a href="http://iheartfilm.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Chris</a> I hang like a heavy chain
around your neck.

Nice lines.

Chris

]]> Comment on My Beautiful Kidz by Michelle http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/my-beautiful-kidz/#comment-25 Michelle Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:34:57 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-25 I cried. And want to borrow the words, for they are the same as the ones written in my heart for my own children. I cried. And want to borrow the words, for they are the same as the ones written in my heart for my own children.

]]> Comment on River by Rhonda http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/river/#comment-24 Rhonda Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:08:14 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/river/#comment-24 Hey! Just one more comment on your River poem. Because water has life giving force for us as humans....no matter where you live! It is obivous why it touches us physically and emotionally. Water is central to life. The Bible (which I do not read often) frequently refers to water in this way. From the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers that watered the Garden of Eden in Genesis, to the Gospel of John's reference to Jesus as the "living water," to the "river of the water of life" in the book of Revelation, the Scriptures are full of passages where water symbolized life. I LOVE being in water with a lover! I like the way it looks on our skin. Rhonda Hey!

Just one more comment on your River poem.

Because water has life giving force for us as humans….no matter where you live! It is obivous why it touches us physically and emotionally. Water is central to life. The Bible (which I do not read often) frequently refers to water in this way. From the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers that watered the Garden of Eden in Genesis, to the Gospel of John’s reference to Jesus as the “living water,” to the “river of the water of life” in the book of Revelation, the Scriptures are full of passages where water symbolized life.

I LOVE being in water with a lover! I like the way it looks on our skin.

Rhonda

]]> Comment on I am back! by Craig http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/i-am-back/#comment-23 Craig Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:37:20 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/i-am-back/#comment-23 Hey Graham, Love your reflections in these poems. It's kinda sad how we get sucked into measuring our riches by our bank balance - or lack of it - yet the real riches are simpler things like being able to sit with a coffee, be still a while and write...How much time and energy we waste chasing these things we call 'gold'. These seasons. A friend once said something along the lines of 'all summers leaves you with a desert'. We need winter. And spring and autumn (fall). What would summer be without them? We wouldn't recognise - or appreciate - summer if it wasn't for winter. It's the natural cycle of life to have a period of slowing, resting, as you say, hybernating. But our culture says that's not natural; take stimulants, keep going full speed: go go go. On home. I'm thinking home is a place to return to. Not so much a place to stay. People who stay at home their whole lives run the risk of never living; never realising what it really important to them; never discovering the depths of themselves. But having somewhere to return to, where people love you no matter what, where the familiar affords some peace and rest, even if it's only for a season. The prodigal son discovered the meaning of home, but his brother didn't. Maori use the term turangawaewae. (too-rung-a-why-why) I've copied this definition: Tūrangawaewae is one of the most well-known and powerful Māori concepts. Literally tūranga (standing place), waewae (feet), it is often translated as ‘a place to stand’. Tūrangawaewae are places where we feel especially empowered and connected. They are our foundation, our place in the world, our home. In the concept of tūrangawaewae, the external world is a reflection of an inner sense of security and foundation. The mountains, rivers and waterways to which one can claim a relationship also express this internal sense of foundation. See ya, Craig Hey Graham,
Love your reflections in these poems.

It’s kinda sad how we get sucked into measuring our riches by our bank balance – or lack of it – yet the real riches are simpler things like being able to sit with a coffee, be still a while and write…How much time and energy we waste chasing these things we call ‘gold’.

These seasons. A friend once said something along the lines of ‘all summers leaves you with a desert’. We need winter. And spring and autumn (fall). What would summer be without them? We wouldn’t recognise – or appreciate – summer if it wasn’t for winter. It’s the natural cycle of life to have a period of slowing, resting, as you say, hybernating. But our culture says that’s not natural; take stimulants, keep going full speed: go go go.

On home. I’m thinking home is a place to return to. Not so much a place to stay.
People who stay at home their whole lives run the risk of never living; never realising what it really important to them; never discovering the depths of themselves.
But having somewhere to return to, where people love you no matter what, where the familiar affords some peace and rest, even if it’s only for a season. The prodigal son discovered the meaning of home, but his brother didn’t.

Maori use the term turangawaewae. (too-rung-a-why-why)
I’ve copied this definition:

Tūrangawaewae is one of the most well-known and powerful Māori concepts. Literally tūranga (standing place), waewae (feet), it is often translated as ‘a place to stand’. Tūrangawaewae are places where we feel especially empowered and connected. They are our foundation, our place in the world, our home.

In the concept of tūrangawaewae, the external world is a reflection of an inner sense of security and foundation. The mountains, rivers and waterways to which one can claim a relationship also express this internal sense of foundation.

See ya,
Craig

]]> Comment on River by Rhonda http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/river/#comment-20 Rhonda Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:23:45 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/river/#comment-20 Graham, River, is a poem where I can totally relate and found it moving! :-) Can't say I would like to be frozen still! That would make someone like me crazy. Although, using a river to discribe how one moves through life is felicitous to say the least. Water is a polor molecule which pulls me towards it! I love being near it, in it, listening to it, sleeping on it and next to it! I miss the ocean! I can only hope that my spiritual destiny leads to me an opening like the massive incredible ocean! I think it will.... My thoughts. Rhonda Graham,
River, is a poem where I can totally relate and found it moving! :-) Can’t say I would like to be frozen still! That would make someone like me crazy. Although, using a river to discribe how one moves through life is felicitous to say the least. Water is a polor molecule which pulls me towards it! I love being near it, in it, listening to it, sleeping on it and next to it! I miss the ocean! I can only hope that my spiritual destiny leads to me an opening like the massive incredible ocean! I think it will….
My thoughts.
Rhonda

]]> Comment on About by Jeff KAUFFMAN http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com#comment-19 Jeff KAUFFMAN Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:50:35 +0000 #comment-19 HEY MATE, It was an honer playing with you last night. That is how powerful music is: It can bring people together in an instant even though they have thousands of miles between them. Thanks again Jeff HEY MATE,
It was an honer playing with you last night. That is how powerful music is: It can bring people together in an instant even though they have thousands of miles between them. Thanks again
Jeff

]]> Comment on I am back! by Rhonda http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/i-am-back/#comment-18 Rhonda Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:52:19 +0000 http://blindpoet259.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/i-am-back/#comment-18 Dear Poet, First want to make sure this post 'appears' before I spend a lot of time responding to your poems and comments! This is my first post. :-) I really like many of your poems! You are inquisitive about life. I see......You seem to wrestle and duel with your feelings written. I do understand the energy in your words. I am such an emotional being like you......I have attracted drama in my past which I now want to avoid. I do enjoy writing with emotion atttached. I usually write if someone moves me from deep inside. I will write to someone I love (friends or family). I like writing about sexual feelings and what drives me in that area of my life on an intellectual level. Being an intense person, not everyone can handle my personality. Or understand my sense of humor? I listen to my heart, the Universe, and my gut now! I want good karma in this life! :-) Thanks for sharing your thoughts with others! You are not alone! Rhonda Namaste' Dear Poet,
First want to make sure this post ‘appears’ before I spend a lot of time responding to your poems and comments! This is my first post. :-)
I really like many of your poems! You are inquisitive about life. I see……You seem to wrestle and duel with your feelings written. I do understand the energy in your words.
I am such an emotional being like you……I have attracted drama in my past which I now want to avoid.
I do enjoy writing with emotion atttached. I usually write if someone moves me from deep inside. I will write to someone I love (friends or family).
I like writing about sexual feelings and what drives me in that area of my life on an intellectual level.
Being an intense person, not everyone can handle my personality. Or understand my sense of humor?
I listen to my heart, the Universe, and my gut now! I want good karma in this life! :-)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with others! You are not alone!
Rhonda
Namaste’

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