How loud do I need to speak, or how many risks do I have to take for me to be heard? - 12th December 2010.


Loud faculty.

Ingenuity holds the capacity,
of the gravity and it's faults.
The intrusive corners of the world,
it's faculty and its seasalt.

Under pledge what can you lend,
Insecure words within your trend.
Imagine me a few years from now,
Have I said what I need, is it out loud?

The unlit penumbra sleeps
under all the redeemed forest.
The cobweb of society we keep
inside the indigent harvest.

White lies of life does not facade,
It's hard for the strangers to parade.
Silk signs of sun never prove the breeze,
Opulent crowds gather around me.



Poetry by John Ashleigh
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Written on 2010-12-12 at 23:15

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An-ders
Very nice.
2011-03-09


Mr painter
AWESOME
2010-12-15


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2010-12-15



To know is to die trying, for sure you'll have the advantage and take the bitter with the sweet, the sour disarms the salt. Let your word be your bond... " NO THEY CAN'Y THAT THAY AWAY FROM YOU"! People know greatness when they see it as the future is closer than you think. One thing for sure dear poet friend and that is you haven't said what most wish to hear; aloud and quite plain. Let the disadvantaged wash in the mire clay after they have been set free from their past pains; yours not to suffer. The chains of this world in a place of predicted stale fruit and bitter honey. This I too know and in agreement believe. You need not speak loud a whisper is for the ears of the wise. One "MASTERPIECE OF GOLDEN POETRY"!
2010-12-14


Kshiti Dubey
You are an amazing writer! I love reading your texts.
2010-12-14


Phyllis J. Rhodes
To be heard, just speak simply dear young poet. And speak true from your heart. Don't hide behind shadows or under camouflage for fear the light will cause readers to accuse you of being unsophisticated. Risk everything. For what is the point of writing if not for communicating, either to your readers or to your inner most self; the part of you that is the most tender, most uncertain, most vulnerable, where uncomfortable things are stored. You have a gift with words as demonstrated here. Using them to share your thoughts, your opinions, your very soul can only benefit those who read them.
2010-12-14



Only as loud as your pen/keyboard will clack and roll. A whisper aptly spoken resounds quite largely to the appropriate ear. Cheers!
2010-12-13


shells
You are speaking loud and clear, I would go so far as to liken you to Bob Dylan in your second stanza and that final one is a stunner, you continually amaze me for one so young.
2010-12-12