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    16characterstwas
    last edited by May 21, 2025, 5:02 PM

    Someone had posted this on the old forum. Here it is again

    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58702/the-wise-king

    The Wise King
    BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
    Once there ruled in the distant city of Wirani a king who was both
    mighty and wise. And he was feared for his might and loved for
    his wisdom.

    Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and
    crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank, even the king
    and his courtiers; for there was no other well.

    One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured
    seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, “From this
    hour he who drinks this water shall become mad.”

    Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord
    chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, even as the witch
    had foretold.

    And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the
    market places did naught but whisper to one another, “The king is
    mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason.
    Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him.”

    That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the
    well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
    to his lord chamberlain to drink.

    And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
    because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.

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      ThinPicking @16characterstwas
      last edited by May 21, 2025, 5:14 PM

      One for truth/random/nomane there. With a pinch a humour.

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        gg12 @ThinPicking
        last edited by gg12 May 21, 2025, 8:54 PM May 21, 2025, 8:51 PM

        @ThinPicking All of your responses are crpytic af bro.
        Genuinely what does that mean.
        Your speaking in tongues.
        You lie in drink and quote from poets names who are now lost.
        Or you just speak in references I don't understand.
        Or pig Latin maybe?

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          ThinPicking @gg12
          last edited by May 21, 2025, 9:27 PM

          Aren't you claiming to be a poet. I'm not.

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            NoeticJuice
            last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:28 AM Jun 3, 2025, 3:45 AM

            The Musicians
            by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

            The strings of my heart were strung by Pleasure,
            And I laughed when the music fell on my ear,
            For he and Mirth played a joyful measure,
            And they played so loud that I could not hear
            The wailing and mourning of souls a-weary -
            The strains of sorrow that floated around,
            For my heart's notes rang out loud and cheery,
            And I heard no other sound.

            Mirth and Pleasure, the music brothers,
            Played louder and louder in joyful glee;
            But sometimes a discord was heard by others -
            Though only the rhythm was heard by me.
            Louder and louder, faster and faster
            The hands of the brothers played strain on strain,
            When all of a sudden a Mighty Master
            Swept them aside; and Pain,

            Pain, the musician, the soul-refiner,
            Restrung the strings of my quivering heart,
            And the air that he played was a plaintive minor,
            So sad that the tear-drops were forced to start;
            Each note was an echo of awful anguish,
            As shrill as solemn, as sharp as slow,
            And my soul for a reason seemed to languish
            And faint with its weight of woe.

            With skilful hands that were never weary,
            This Master of Music played strain on strain,
            And between the bars of the miserere,
            He drew up the strings of my heart again,
            And I was filled with a vague, strange wonder,
            To see that they did not snap in two.
            'They are drawn so tight, they will break assunder, '
            I thought, but instead, they grew,

            In the hands of the Master, firmer and stronger;
            And I could hear on the stilly air -
            Now my ears were deafened by Mirth no longer -
            The sound of sorrow, and grief, and despair;
            And my soul grew kinder and tender to others,
            My nature grew sweeter, my mind grew broad,
            And I held all men to be my brothers,
            Linked by the chastening rod.

            My soul was lifted to God and heaven,
            And when on my heart-strings fell again
            The hands of Mirth, and Pleasure, even,
            There was never a discord to mar the strain.
            For Pain, the musician, and soul-refiner,
            Attuned the strings with a master hand,
            And whether the music be major or minor,
            It is always sweet and grand.

            "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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              NoeticJuice
              last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:28 AM Jun 3, 2025, 3:58 AM

              Miracles
              by Walt Whitman

              Why, who makes much of a miracle?
              As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
              Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
              Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
              Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
              Or stand under trees in the woods,
              Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
              Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
              Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
              Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
              Or animals feeding in the fields,
              Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
              Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
              Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
              These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
              The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.

              To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
              Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
              Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
              Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.

              To me the sea is a continual miracle,
              The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the
              ships with men in them,
              What stranger miracles are there?

              "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                NoeticJuice
                last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:28 AM Jun 3, 2025, 4:00 AM

                The Kind Moon
                by Sara Teasdale

                I think the moon is very kind
                To take such trouble just for me.
                He came along with me from home
                To keep me company.

                He went as fast as I could run;
                I wonder how he crossed the sky?
                I'm sure he hasn't legs and feet
                Or any wings to fly.

                Yet here he is above their roof;
                Perhaps he thinks it isn't right
                For me to go so far alone,
                Tho' mother said I might.

                "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                  NoeticJuice
                  last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:28 AM Jun 5, 2025, 5:42 AM

                  Our Blessings
                  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

                  Sitting to-day in the sunshine,
                  That touched me with fingers of love,
                  I thought of the manifold blessings
                  God scatters on earth, from above;
                  And they seemed, as I numbered them over,
                  Far more than we merit, or need,
                  And all that we lack is the angels
                  To make earth a heaven indeed.

                  The winter brings long, pleasant evenings,
                  The spring brings a promise of flowers
                  That summer breathes to fruition,
                  And autumn brings glad, golden hours.
                  The woodlands re-echo with music,
                  The moonbeams ensilver the sea;
                  There is sunlight and beauty about us,
                  And the world is as fair as can be.

                  But mortals are always complaining,
                  Each one thinks his own a sad lot;
                  And forgetting the good things about him,
                  Goes mourning for those he has not.
                  Instead of the star-spangled heavens,
                  We look on the dust at our feet;
                  We drain out the cup that is bitter,
                  Forgetting the one that is sweet.

                  We mourn o'er the thorn in the flower,
                  Forgetting its odour and bloom;
                  We pass by a garden of blossoms,
                  To weep o'er the dust of the tomb.
                  There are blessings unnumbered about us, -
                  Like the leaves of the forest they grow;
                  And the fault is our own - not the Giver's -
                  That we have not an Eden below.

                  "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                    NoeticJuice
                    last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:27 AM Jun 7, 2025, 9:17 AM

                    To hear an Oriole sing
                    by Emily Dickinson

                    To hear an Oriole sing
                    May be a common thing—
                    Or only a divine.

                    It is not of the Bird
                    Who sings the same, unheard,
                    As unto Crowd—

                    The Fashion of the Ear
                    Attireth that it hear
                    In Dun, or fair—

                    So whether it be Rune,
                    Or whether it be none
                    Is of within.

                    The "Tune is in the Tree—"
                    The Skeptic—showeth me—
                    "No Sir! In Thee!"

                    "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                      NoeticJuice
                      last edited by Jun 7, 2025, 9:17 AM

                      Thank you for the inspiration to start reading poetry, @gg12

                      "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                        NoeticJuice
                        last edited by NoeticJuice Jun 7, 2025, 9:26 AM Jun 7, 2025, 9:20 AM

                        I see the Four-fold Man
                        by William Blake

                        I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
                        And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow.
                        I see the Past, Present and Future existing all at once
                        Before me. O Divine Spirit, sustain me on thy wings,
                        That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose;
                        For Bacon and Newton, sheath'd in dismal steel, their terrors hang
                        Like iron scourges over Albion: reasonings like vast serpents
                        Infold around my limbs, bruising my minute articulations.

                        I turn my eyes to the schools and universities of Europe
                        And there behold the Loom of Locke, whose Woof rages dire,
                        Wash'd by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth
                        In heavy wreaths folds over every nation: cruel works
                        Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic
                        Moving by compulsion each other, not as those in Eden, which,
                        Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve in harmony and peace.

                        "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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                          NoeticJuice
                          last edited by Jun 8, 2025, 9:38 AM

                          Here And Now
                          by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

                          Here, in the heart of the world,
                          Here, in the noise and the din,
                          Here, where our spirits were hurled
                          To battle with sorrow and sin,
                          This is the place and the spot
                          For knowledge of infinite things;
                          This is the kingdom where Thought
                          Can conquer the prowess of kings.

                          Wait for no heavenly life,
                          Seek for no temple alone;
                          Here, in the midst of the strife,
                          Know what the sages have known.
                          See what the Perfect Ones saw-
                          God in the depth of each soul,
                          God as the light and the law,
                          God as beginning and goal.

                          Earth is one chamber of Heaven,
                          Death is no grander than birth.
                          Joy in the life that was given,
                          Strive for perfection on earth.
                          Here, in the turmoil and roar,
                          Show what it is to be calm;
                          Show how the spirit can soar
                          And bring back its healing and balm.

                          Stand not aloof nor apart,
                          Plunge in the thick of the fight.
                          There in the street and the mart,
                          That is the place to do right.
                          Not in some cloister or cave,
                          Not in some kingdom above,
                          Here, on this side of the grave,
                          Here, should we labor and love.

                          "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

                          🎧🎶24/7

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                            NoeticJuice
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                            Untitled
                            by me

                            I hear you speak, and I listen
                            But I’ve heard it all before
                            I say a word, hoping for something new
                            But your ears are gone
                            I’m speaking all alone
                            No point speaking at all

                            "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

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