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Moonlight Paradox (Free verse) by Glasseyez

Have you already forgotten the moonlight paradox in your sleep? Don’t worry, because another moon is not far away. So wake up to begin again your day. If life seems as a riddle now once more, just remember what you forgot about how you knew what when was then. This is, again, how the story will unfold: I will point, and you will miss the heavenly glory well told. Now dream another dream in moons midnight display, to awake in realization that- tomorrow never really is another day. Riddles in the past cause you to search outside to match the clues hidden within. The wise are wrong in this case it seems. Because what's seen is right, but they wrongly focus on the dreams. Is it Progress in motion or motion in progress? End only to begin, but you don’t see. 2 created 2 the sustaining I Am, both destroy each. Hate create love still, does why explains what? Moon- the shines above, from Sun of pure light. Listen-just; simple is it? 2 point in views change with Focus. All, it is equal even when changes. What Changes are as answers? Answers as are Changes, what Changes when even equal is it all. Focus with change, views in point 2; it is simple, just listen. Light, pure of sun from above- shines the Moon. What explains why does. Still, love create Hate. Each destroy both. Am I sustaining the 2? Created 2 see, don’t you? But begin to only End. It is Motion in progress and progress in motion. Does it Feel like you already read that verse? Is this and that all you gat, when trying to solve that life riddles curse? The moon begins to wake up when the sun falls asleep. Here we begin our search for truth, or luminescence through sleep. Where order seems confused like the moons reflected light that begins its end of easy meaning. Take your time, I Am forever repeating, this doesn’t have to be your first and last stare. I never knew why how many who has, knowing when was what, or now was when is, was, and will be so important in this land of simplistic mystery and intrigue until I myself had to read it again to believe. It's the song that sounds the same when read from behind, in the middle of this riddle a moonlight paradox that so few can find. To heaven's glory My finger will point soon, If you missed it the second time it's because you concentrated too much on the moon . So quiet your eyes and close your mind. Let the Sandman read you a moonlight riddle that has it's own kind’ a rhyme. In my paradox, you will find- that the only answers, outside, lie inside your mind. What is my Moonlight Paradox?

zodiac 12-Feb-06/9:38 PM
My opinion isn't overrated. It's certified "Excellent" by a panel of nine international judges, highest and lowest dropped. Consider instead that you're acting like a child because someone didn't tell you what a godawful genius you are. Well - now that your ego's down to size, let's consider one of your so-called paradoxes:

"We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers". This is not technically a paradox, as there's no understood or expressed connection between building-height and temper. Indeed, the opposite could be said to be true: everyone knows that walking up tall buildings makes you angry, while Aboriginals are perfectly happy in their mud hovels.

But perhaps you meant "People expend a lot of energy working for something that's not an expressed priority (i.e., taller buildings), while not working very hard for something that is an expressed priority (more patience and understanding)." Well, for one, why didn't you - or whoever made that email forward list of "paradoxes of our times" - say so? And for two, it's not true. This is a time of longer tempers, as is proven by anything more than a passing glance at history.

Looking through the rest of your list, I see most of those "paradoxes" fall into one or more of the following categories:
(1) not technically paradoxical,
(2) not true, and
(3) folk pithiness; something that sounds clever to people like you because it uses "opposite words" - short/long, quick/slow, etc. - but on cursory examination deflates like guff souffle.

Inasmuch as (3) is true, this should be the most profound thing you've ever heard:

I am smart, but you are foolish.

In short, you are not going to be able to out-sense me, neither here nor in the Thunderdome of your choice. Your "moonlight paradox" presents no paradox. Anywhere. In addition, it's misspelled, mispunctuated, rambling, focusless, and overloaded with words that, by universal agreement, should never be used in poetry again. If it helps, you can go zero all my poems now. On your way out, please considering reading some actual modern poetry somewhere. It's been swell.




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