Life`s Polarities Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Life`s Polarities

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Why is there life?
Why is there death?
Why are there tragedies?
Why are there feasts?

Why is there evil?
Why is there good?
Why is there care?
Why is there neglect?

Why are there memories
Why is there forgetfulness?
Why is there despair
Why is there hope?

Why is there childhood?
Why is there adulthood?
Why is there disease?
Why is there health?

Funny and mysterious life
with all its polarities!
Hold on to its fulcrum
as its polarities rotate!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Elizabeth Padillo Olesen 16 November 2012

Thanks, Tunji, for your very reflective response, giving assessment on the content. Really appreciated.

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Tunji Ibrahim 16 November 2012

A pregnancy of wisdom giving birth to life with two horns of diametrical contrasts. The poem is rendered in a simple, smooth flowing diction, imbued with rhetorical questions and imagery of contrasts.

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Elizabeth Padillo Olesen 15 November 2012

Hi, Hilakshi, thanks for your wonderful response. I will find time to read some of your poems sometime. Thanks a lot.

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Elizabeth Padillo Olesen 15 November 2012

Thanks, dear Thomas, for responding and relating this piece to another you can think of. I may find time to listen to Moody Blues's song. Thanks a lot.

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Neela Nath Das 14 November 2012

Polar Opposites control us. These questions haunt us too.Marvelous thought.

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