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lovechild asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

hAVE YOU SEEN EVIL Lately?C/C?

I met true evil on a sunny afternoon

without any preceding harbinger of doom.

I came face to face with the nameless fiend,

sinuously hiding behind mundane things.

I would catch it in peripheral, rising up behind

and above me, seeking a way into my mind-

for when it is realized you will never forget.

I rue the day ,the awful day that evil and I met.

I heard evil in the city streets, the silence after the shots.

In eyes that did not see me until it knew that I read thoughts

I sought solace in the spirit that was poured into a glass,

and waited for the minatory black winged thing to pass.

Evil was not the character depicted as a snake,

nothing like piranha waiting in the lake.

No, evil is the opposite of Love, we are misled

we don't even tap the powers within our own heads.

Doubt your intuition and disregard the mystic,

make a mockery of what is sacred and intrinsic.

I see evil like worms that crawl into your sightless eyes

believing in only what is tangible--food for flies.

When you have no faith in the force of this Love,

you wear a shroud, an aura mottled grey and brown above.

My spirit seeks to bring you out from under evil's spell:

If there were no hatred and no anger you could get out of hell.

Update:

@jimmy: That is one of the most evil of all things and it is NOT ACCEPTABLE

@Beth: You made me feel very good right then, Thanks

@Gio: I have no idea what you mean because I have made a decision to not let the poetry section be a place for personal (negative) issues. I apologize if I was not thinking about you enough, praising you enough, or took some kind of personally copyrighted WORD from you...hey if harbinger is YOUR word what is it doing in every dictionary online?

Update 2:

@Neonman: This is just an abstract concept poem. I wrote it after pondering Love as opposed to indifferece/apathy.

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  • 9 years ago
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    I have felt evil but never seen it.

  • 9 years ago

    Out of the Dark the light was slung to give form to divine ideal

    Outward it shines continually on yet its effulgence is not really real.

    As a reflection of Reality hid, it baffles the weak human mind

    Its Source is impersonal for it harbours all things and appears as both mean and kind.

    The light so illusory ends up as rain that formlessly gives form to us

    Riding the swells of the mind's formless waves we learn to both bless and to cuss.

    This in good keeping with the Source of all things, Its image will soon become clear

    The light we call good is but a smidgeon of real while the Dark is the source of all fear.

    For what of the Cause which is without cause, that plunges us into that light?

    Some say Its reason is prudently simple, to teach man what's wrong and what's right.

    Others relume the wisdom of ancients, their dogmas now form their breath

    But all sages know twas for us meant to see the great evil of hell and of death.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Happy Hiram is my friend. We became friends and exchanged good remarks lately.

    He supported me publicly against those that attacked me. I supported him too, and advised him. I advised him again, yesterday, to fight for his account. If you think you can spot Evil, just name it.

    You used a word that I have used. Harbinger! Yesterday you posted crop against me again. I take it that your immaculate and beloved team, searches for a witch to burn, or to pray!!! And how come you call people to pray, when you are not a Christian? I have a kind word to say here, concerning crappy behavior, but I 'd rather go. And as Neon said, why you excluded your kind behinds from the situation and you became "judges". You were damn wrong dear, and I doubt that you 've ever felt what kind of damage your posts had caused. So let me go, before I explode from the crap that goes on. Go to pray, for Broadway purposes. I just need ONE reason to start naming WHO abused the space and destroyed HH account with their TDs, REPORTS and their CHISSY COWARD behavior!

    Eff Off to all that abused the space and to ALL that were kissing their behinds.

    BG: Where is your Christ??? Just let me know BG!!!!! Do I smell CROP here BG???

    YOU have used and destroyed HH. You and your manipulation BG!!!!

    ==================

    EDIT:

    BG and LC: (( "Harbinger, Brimstone, Whiff" are words taken from my poems. Whoever wants to imply things should do it directly. You are full of it, you and your kin.))

    Source(s): 'Nough said!
  • Iggy
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Fantastic imagery throughout. I felt shivers, even in the warmth of where I sit.

    I've always preferred to think of the opposite of love as indifference. We tie ourselves to those we hate in ways just as binding as to those we love.

    I find a certain irony that I end up praying and obsessing about those I find least desirable. My hope is for an ultimate reconciliation and understanding, but I'm enough of a realist to know it to be unlikely in all but a minority of cases. However, I don't plan to be the one to shut the door. Openness doesn't necessarily make me feel better, but I can at least feel some comfort that I'm not the cause of separation from conflict.

    It isn't possible to get along with everyone, but we can try and not exclude people just because they make us uncomfortable.

    Of course I write the drama of my life in my head myself, so I'm not an objective judge of whether I get this right.

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  • 9 years ago

    Evil = Vile

  • 9 years ago

    Even negative idea evil can remind us not to go through to the path of way not to do it to people who suffering pain or hurting themselves because of Wat we want...

    Source(s): Avoid the mistake
  • HD
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    You are being a guide for me right now and this is a message filled poem. Faith in Love does combat evil. I took to heart what you also said about living in fear - and LC - it is working!

    I admire that I can read a poem by you and even if your name was not there - I would recognize your style.

    The imagery, the truth in it - and your talent for rhyme.

  • 9 years ago

    Evil comes with a shadowed glove

    And crosses the divide to hurt

    And with intent pushes and shoves

    With a sick power to exert.....

    Love will always win out my friend...good poem

  • Andy P
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Not at all what I expected-it's better!

    I like the way you describe evil as existing near the edge, close by.

    It has a spell over us, empowered by losing Love.

    A nice twist.

  • 9 years ago

    Hard to comment here other than to say you paint some dark images as if you are the light (metaphorically) fighting against the dark. Now are your referencing someone in particular or broad brushing the evils in society, I don't quite know. An interesting read, would like to know what got your mind going to compose this.

  • Seen plenty of evil in my lifetime. Good write. Hope u have a good Friday hugs.

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