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Question: Can we create our own existence!?
Cascading flowers from the tops
of mountains, so sweet so
very pretty
but not so
very real
so we close our tarnished lids
over our looking glass eyes
and pretend we are children
again
and a flower is always a daisy
never a lily
we can't get past the image
we defend the yellow plume
and reject the lilted white
until the pen makes magic
and the mountain
starts to pound through
the fog and becomes
the wound
that will not heal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Abject Weirdness Alarm going off!.!.!.
"BONG BONG BONG"

Last Tuesday (the night the van's headlights went out), I sat in with Dr!. Swetman's 101/105 class!. We did an exercise on the board where I had the kids shout out words to me as I scribed!. "Cascade, Daisy and Mountain" all made it to the poem!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes we can create our existence but only so long as we pretend like naive children to see daisies instead of Lillis! !. !. !. !. A false, hypocritical existence unless and until our intellectual manoeuvrings unmasks and manifests the reality about the fog cover around the mountain!. Often this factual/reality re-awakening comes to us a moment too late to administer first aid!
Jean-Paul Sartre observed after WWII that the Parisians enjoyed a deserved period of freedom during the German occupation when the dreaded Himmler-led Gestapo stormed St!. Germain des Pres, Marais!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Cascading flowers from the top of mountains are as much a part of our world as the ugly weeds and thistle that tear at us, are!. There is much ugly in the world that grows each day!. It's the beautiful that we have to work at seeing!.

We can choose our existence to the degree that we choose who our friends are, how we respond to life ,with all of it's steady supply of hurts, sorrows and losses, yet joys too!. We can choose how we live in a world that is constantly changing around us!.We can hold on to those things and people that bring light to our world and not more darkness!. True, some wounds don't totally heal but we as resilient human beings do learn to live with them and not let them destroy our happiness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you Buk!.

May I ask: What is the symbolic difference between the daisy and lily!. I like lilies better myself; though, they don't seem to last as long as daisies!. Never mind, I think I got it!. Man you're good!.
I don't have to pay for the whole hour still, do I!?

Edit: I just read neon's answer!. Please disregard my question!. (I'm stopping payment on that check, by the way!. You're probably not even a licensed therapist!. See, I still have that humor issue to work out!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Beautiful pen, Buk!.

I'm more concerned about the mountain pounding through the fog and it becoming the wound that WILL heal!.!.!.
we CAN create our own existence, but it has to be an existence in reality, not in a fog and therefore a false reality!. No!?

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As I see the roses through world colored glasses, I know that this awful thistle can produce such a thing of beauty and I do not want to miss that sight!.!.!.!.!.So I stare!.!.!.and wait for the rose to bloom, denying the thistle it's ugliness!.

Thanks for opening eyes, Buk!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are making me mad! lol Read this 3 times now and looked at footnotes from others!. Daisy life, lily death!.!.!.reality hard, especially as we age and see it for what it comprises!. Pretend again!? It would be nice!. Care to play cops and robbers!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

This applies to many things in our lives right now Buk - just so many damn things!. It disturbs me, for I do not wish to live aside a pounding mountain, nor claim my eye's to be tarnished to life!.
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thanks buk, but some of us don't have poetic talents like you, and have to refer to abnormal drug use to create another existence!.

Great poem, though =)Www@QuestionHome@Com

BeautifulPoem Buk!. Thank You!.

"Yes Buk, we can create that" !.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. " Somewhere Over The Rainbow "

http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=1HRa4X07j!.!.!.

Lets Escape there!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. Huh!?

(((Hugs)))Www@QuestionHome@Com

We can create our own thoughts and feelings!. "I think, therefor I am!."

Yes we can!.

Very nice poem,Buk, very nice indeed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Very nicely done dear boy!. and I'm on top of that mountain and enjoy the views all the time!. Wild flowers abound in my area!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I feel stupid or insensitive or both but I haven't a clue what you were trying to say even though it reads pretty!. I can see I'll have to stay behind after school !.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Good morning,applauds the imagery!. Thanks! : )Www@QuestionHome@Com

Simply smashing!
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I think that has happened to me recently!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A lovely poem for my short coffee break,thank you sir!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Would that be kinda like "living in our own little world"!? I know several people that have done that! Nice poem btw!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thats lovely Buk,Yes we can and we do,those who don't live restrained lives!.!.!.xxxWww@QuestionHome@Com

Very well said Buk!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you!.!.!.That's really nice Buk!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Whoa!.!.!.WowWww@QuestionHome@Com

quick take cover its a flower storm!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sure, Just 'Live' in Your Basement!.!.!.!.!.!.lol!.!.!.!!Www@QuestionHome@Com