Reality Of Both Lives - Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Subhas Chandra Chakra (4/21/2016 10:29:00 AM)

Oh how lovely lines these are...
Looking through tears of a lifetime,
looking out of fear, seeing inside

I loved the stanza...
Touching my soul has brought
insight to mind that I may see the
reality of both lives.

Thank you poet for sharing it. (Report) Reply

Howard Savage (2/1/2016 6:44:00 AM)

Looking through tears of a lifetime, is a power message. Great poem. #10 (Report) Reply

Walterrean Salley (1/20/2016 8:25:00 PM)

Being with God is more precious than anything. Seeing both lives gives a wonderful hope, in that this life is not the end. There is another after this. The child of God anticipates the afterlife. Thank you for this most beautiful poem. (Report) Reply

Bharati Nayak (8/19/2015 8:30:00 PM)

Going deep into soul, seeing life through its pains and sufferings, its fears and worries comes the realisation that this little life is very precious in its worldly duties and after it departs from this earth..By belief in God that the poet gets the insight to understand the value of life.
Thanksfor sharing the insightful poem. (Report) Reply

Sanjibsaha Aniketa (7/7/2015 9:08:00 AM)

The feeling of self and selfness towards god. (Report) Reply

Edward Kofi Louis (5/23/2015 2:15:00 AM)

Tears of a lifetime! Yes, life is always with past memories. All the same, we have to move with a positive note. (Report) Reply

Daniel Brick (5/5/2015 2:12:00 PM)

Are the two lives 1) earthly mortal life and 2) heavenly immortal life. (?) That is I'm certain an accurate conclusion.
The epic tradition of the Mediterranean involves the hero's descent into the Land of the Dead: What Odysseus witnesses is terrifying in its bleakness and emptiness, it is not Life after Death, just Death; but 700 years later, in the Aeneid Vergil portrays the view of the Mystery Religion of Orpheus with a clearly differentiated heaven and hell. It predates Chrisitianity but is in all essentials similar. Human beings apparently could not sustain their belief in something like the Homeric afterlife, they needed something that gave hope which the Mystery Religions provided. And Paul's epistles use the technical Greek term MYSTERION to describe Christianity. He knew how to graft the new religion on the old. This is the Spiritual History of Humanity and it fills us with wonders. (Report) Reply

Bri Edwards (11/14/2014 8:53:00 PM)

without a poet's note i would be somewhat at a loss to know what you are talking about, except that you've already given me some background already.

my wife just called me to supper. thanks for sharing. :) bri (Report) Reply