The Start And End Poem by Alyssa Lippi

The Start And End

Rating: 5.0


new to the world,
everyday sites turned strange to new eyes
absorbing the world around her
she looks, watches, learns
the hands that holds her heart are not her own
independence, refreshing and yet scary
things change
suddenly becoming as unknown as before
all things done
unchangeable, relief
a look at the shell that once held life
now gone
put back into the dirt life originally sprang from
and in that time, , do you know her?
Her life is her own,
you cant take that from her.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Matt Mooney 04 May 2010

'Ashes to ashes and dust to dust' and 'Remember man thou art but dust and into dust thou shalt return'.You are only seventeen and you have entered the great debate! The speech 'All the world's a Stage--' in 'As You Like it' says it all. Celebrate life and continue with your poetic journeys through the fields of philosophy.10.

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Shoshana Green 20 April 2010

Yes, indeed. Well stated. Except maybe different interpretation to last two lines. One's life may be a solo vehicle in one sense, and will experience physical decay, yet while still alive, when given over to a new particular set of works and devotions, one becomes that which one thinks and does in that new time. And where one plants one's soul seed, a new 'life'being springs forth in that season of its transformation of self. Thus, her life may be her own to take that which she 'was' from her. Thank you for nice poem.

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