Rip
the face off
the silver penny
and find
that it
has been steel all along.
What?
You never knew
that penny’s were made
from steel?
That’s why
you have to
take the zinc mask from it…
apply the magnet to it,
prove it so,
and then
when you are certain
you can see
beneath the surface of it…
you will understand
that under the face
of the matter
lies the true heart.
7-13-09
16 hours ago
29 comments:
True. We all wear masks for various reasons.
Then again, no matter what a person appears like, within each one throbs the heart of same flesh and blood...
so right. as with so many things in life.
i love this poem-reminds me of a poem i wrote about.
i left you a poem on my blog.
I can only think of one person in my life that did not wear a mask.
Once in a while you do have to take the mask off...or else it becomes stuck permanantly!
And what if you don't like what you see when you get there?
It seems to me as if my two-cents worth is constantly losing it's value.
Can you direct me to the point of it all? Does everything have to lead to something?
TWM, you have well described exactly why we'd rather forget the status quo.
love love love this one, mark.
it's kind of brilliant....
Skin deep - and no mistake.
It’s a fundamantal attribution error. It’s human nature that person tend to find excuses to explain their own actions by their circumstances, still to impute of others to born characteristics. Hence, at the end judging poorly others while justifying ones own actions.
I am emotional person yet with stern views. I think double faced person are more dangerous than anything in this world. Beware!
Somehow it's fitting for money to have a heart of steel.
Lucky enough at one time to win a writing spot where I could say pretty well what I pleased, I still found I could not write with the same facility as my editor.
"Get to the heart of the matter," he said.
I'm getting better at taking the mask off. It feels good.
it is heartening in some way to think that something so humble is made up of something so strong.
Scratch the shiny surface of many a 'truth' and who knows what monsters lurk to shake our world view.
Layers upon layers, some harder to peel than others, protecting the precious inner core.
Well done, WM.
copper is just too pricey for making pennies... so why bother with them at all? or nickles and dimes, for that matter? quarters are enough for 'loose change', now that payphones take them only....
the true heart
of the matter
is always there.
its just a matter
of finding it
under our
illusions of choice.
Our blogs are just one mask we all wear.
Mona...Yes we all have heart's of flesh, but then we all have hair as well (or used to anyway) it is the core of the being where the closet of the masks is, not the blood pump, and every core sample has a different closet.
Shadow...It is a part of being human eh?
Robyn (I AM FREEVERSE)<<<<...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT BROTHER, FRIEND AND FELLOW POET TRYING TO UNDERSTAND.
Punch...Me too...God.
Galen...I am a believer in that theory, the longer we pretend to be something we are not the more we become an shallow imitation of that trait we display. I am all for people being flawed and not perfect. Beauty is found in our flaws if we could allow others to see them, we can get past them.
Uncle...First thing you have to do accept, unflinchingly, that there is only one perfect in humanity. The ability to become an eternal creature is a perfect.
Second if your two cents worth is losing value it is only in your thinking. It has the same value as ever, the loss is you think you are not heard.
Third, the point of it all is for men who walk the face of the earth to become individual creatures able to assume their place in an eternal realm that is limitless.
Learning is like that, one thought leading to another to another to another. Walls are built in this ways, structures that offer us shelter and warmth. Do we ever get to the roof portion where we can look down from the tallest point and say JOB DONE? I haven't found it yet but I am satisfied in the building of it.
KJ...I am kinda just thanking you for that. It's just a thought I was working on.
Philip...If we only look at the skin it is where we get misdirected by the physical...I think that is how we all got into so much of our current mess as a world. We trusted the Goldman Sachs mask and felt that governments and leaders of these institutions really did care for our future but in returning to the heart of the matter all they cared about was their short term bonuses.
Shubhajit...Most days, most people do not see the mask they have on. It is there to shield them from being hurt again or excluded again from somewhere they think they want to be.
Yes it is easier to find fault in others and blame my mistakes on them, but that is apart of the process. A necessary part. The true person will see the mask in time and take it off fearlessly.
Two faced people really shouldn't be a source of fear or anger, they, after all, only have two masks eh?
Alice...In this current day your comment has insight. The only steel made coin that I know of was a 1943 US penny which was made of steel and faced with zinc because copper was in such high demand for the war.
Ivan...Editors always say that because they have no heart with which to see eh?
Lou...Yea it does feel good to be without the need to hide or fear just be the you you are intended to be.
Michelle...That was an idea that had not occurred when I wrote this and one I am glad you took from it. Be strong my humble friend.
PI...as long as it is truth then there is no need to fear it, best to know the ugly and work to change it than to be deceived by it. I am just one who always bites the gold piece to know if it is real gold or lead covered in gold. Both have value but in differing uses.
Bebo...Thank you. Peeling the layers on ourselves is a lifetimes worth of effort. The most successful of us who do it are them who eventually die knowing they have loved and done all they could during their time, no matter how brief or long.
LW...The only argument I have is that in order to not have a use for pennies nickels and dimes is that everything would always be rounded up to the next highest quarter, never down.
JaJa...You know you're correct. It is interesting the choices that we make everyday to hide our heart away when all others need to see is the true us. A guy who is a prick is easily enough seen even if he tries to hide it with polish and manners. It is the same with the beautiful soul, even if it is hidden under masks of fear and attitudes of indifference the beauty is easy enough to see if we but look behind the surface structure.
Cinnamon...Love the back of your head...you need a pony tail though. ;-p} Actually the blogs I have seen is some of the places where people feel freest to unmask and allow their inner being to just be what it is in what they are expressing there.
All things are the same, eventually.
Backed by science-"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed". Only transformed.
And echoing Solomon, I say "there's nothing new under the sun". Nothing.
I particularly like the replies to Mona and Cinnamon.
Hair is an inanimate object or projections but our heart is not. I think little philosophy is not bad for health. If we draw an analogy then we can say my heart is God, the animate one and hair is I, the inanimate one.
So, I agree with Mona.
I find many blogs where they write from their heart and I can understand the impulse though I don't see them face to face. And in many cases (earlier) I faced people but couldn't understand the impulse. It is all about thought in my mind how I can catch people. If my nature is to catch always negative or cynical or say criticizing, I will even see bad in God's blog. It's my mind process, if not others writings.
yes you are right about some blogs being an unmasking- good point!
that's true, mark... but they round up most times now
Under the face of the matter
lies the true heart
Appearance/reality: the Earth game.
Blogger's not publishing me in readers/dashboards again, so thanks for your visits!!
Aloha-
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Cinnamon..I suppose everyone who blogs has a reason some to hide further and some to open in a place and way they feel distance from a situation. Either way I am glad the form came about.
LW...Always round up is the mantra.
Cloudia...I don't use the reader anyway...I use the blog roll sidebar, so I would be popping in regardless.
We Humans tend to make assumptions, that maybe where right one time, maybe where never right. But the important thing about them is that they have been wrong for a long time, and we do not even question them. Even if the mistake is right in front of our eyes. Is it that we like comfortably stable lies?
We Humans tend to make assumptions, that maybe where right one time, maybe where never right. But the important thing about them is that they have been wrong for a long time, and we do not even question them. Even if the mistake is right in front of our eyes. Is it that we like comfortably stable lies?
Mark, Now that I have met you personally, I want to call you Mark, ok? My makeup could be considered a mask, but it helps me feel more confident..
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