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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

You come alive in every verse, Chen, this “eternal spin around a star, never coming near but never going far.”

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you, dear Paul -for obvious reasons I do like coming alive 🩵💫

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Pamela Leavey's avatar

This is so beautiful Chen!

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you so much, Pamela 💚

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

..and thank you for sharing it- "damn evil people" don't let me comment under the Note

🌹

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Portia's avatar

Your poems are precious gifts, Chen.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you, dear Portia. You know that ...ah, I guess you do 💕💫

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

and thank you so much for the restack💕

✨✨✨

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Big thank you for sharing this, dear David 💫

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Patris's avatar

Such absolute beauty and vision.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

oh thank you dear Patris

thank you so much ❤️

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

..and thank you so much for sharing this 💕

(tried to answer there -no dice. as usual)

thank you 💫🪄

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Patris's avatar

You are amazing Chen 🩷

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Sure makes me very happy that you think that ❤️

you're too kind

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

A mazes. So many places been or still to go. Blind mole senses succeeds. Grateful.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Yes. Yes.

Thank you dear Richard

🩵💫

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Mahdi Meshkatee's avatar

It shows, Chen. And add if I may, you should follow the thread of those apologies into the obscure corners and recesses they lead, because there, I believe, lies relief and liberty.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

No, they don't:) Not per my experience, at least. And I've a vast one.

But maybe I should just make my peace with a lot of how I am, I mean when I know what it is, because it kinda fluctuates.

Thank you, dear Mahdi 🩵💫

Oh, listen. a bit unrelated, but. Do you remember "The Master and Margarita"?

I read it before we studied it at school-we were already allowed to because Perestrojka-and we had this pretty amazing teacher, so we read tons of what was not studied or even plainly prohibited or never printed before.

in short. we were given topics for the obligatory essays after-the-book.

And one of them was a question. I didn't pick it as I was too far from any answer.

And now I might be a bit closer, but I still don't know for sure. Still thinking. There are many possible answers of course...

The question was :

"Why do they say in the end of the book about the Master that "'He has not earned light, he has earned rest"?

So. Somehow, I know, I've earned liberty. But I'm not sure I've earned relief.

And I also don't know why.

I wrote a poem about it once.

But if you read...the book I mean..what do you think? About the Master I mean

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Mahdi Meshkatee's avatar

Hey Chen,

I’m not sure if I’m the ablest person to talk about such elusive work, and no less that rife, fateful sentence. I do, however, believe that Sartre’s got a point when he says every human relationship is that of a master and a slave, and it’ll remain as is until the slave rises up against the domination and then, lo, becomes the master themselves. That said, there is a part of me that tends to extrapolate that to our relationship with ideas. While relief remains a longing, a thing to be achieved, it dominates every aspect of our lives. It is only when we let go of its pursuit, of masticating the possibility of its accomplishment, that we may become the masters and achieve what relief is. In a sense, relief, liberty, and the like will only be achieved obliquely, and a direct chase will only result, if not every step of the way then eventually, in despair.

Sending you peace🕊️

Mahdi

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Perhaps the promised light of Heaven is not the reward the Master seeks, but rest, relief from his torments?

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

yes, that'd be exactly what I thought. that he gets what he seeks the most, actually

another thought was: because he got tired in the first place

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

You are a real poet with exciting, different, interesting themes in your lyrical "I." For the second time, I noticed that we open each other's posts at the same time.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Oh thank you dear Larisa ❤️

I truly don't know what to say except -I wish I'd met you much earlier, for all the reasons in the world.

But just meeting is already a gift, whenever

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Oh, my dear, don't exaggerate. And I believe in your poetry.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

❤️

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Fotini Masika's avatar

I love that part of yours. I love all parts of yours, even if you don't. Big words, I know... In any case 🖤

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

🖤🪄

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