Standpoint

By Moeti Enos Makhele

Poetry is often used as a tool to render valuable experiences into harmonious and rhythmic words and phrases. The object is to share these experiences with others and to preserve them for posterity, in pleasant-sounding and epigrammatic words and stanzas. Poetry is an instrument which speaks to both mind and heart at the same time. Speaking to the heart is human, for knowledge without passion is like an empty shell, it does not kindle emotions or inspire action. When you speak to the heart, you speak directly to the substance of a person. And when you use poetry to address the heart on matters such as truth, love, self-knowledge, felicity, transformation, depression and reconciliation, as is the case in this book, you touch the essence of the heart. There is no doubt about the value of poetry, and none should stop to question and expand its role. In this book, the poetic spotlight abandons the phenomenal and moves on to highlight the secrets of the mind and the heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moeti Enos Makhele
• Release date: Oct 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463627600

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Standpoint

An anthology of epistemological poems

Moeti Enos Makhele

Copyright © 2019 Moeti Enos Makhele

Published by Moeti Enos Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2019

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Table of Contents

1. Truth

2. Love and Sacrifice

3. What is Knowledge?

4. Intellect

5. The New Culture

6. My True Self

7. Felicity! Felicity!

8. Waiting for the Ancestors

9. Transformation

10. Who Am I?

11. Consultation

12. Youth, I Am!

13. What of a Funeral!

14. Depression

15. Reconciliation

16. Pilgrimage

17. Eve’s Glory Restored

18. What Joy in Death?

19. Pardon Me, the Words I Remember Not

20. Oh! Dream Flight Oh!

21. A Book Written in Gold

22. A Babe Born to This Woman

23. Tale of Courage and Cruelty

24. Return of Holy Souls

25. Two Worlds

26. My Heart, Oh! My Heart

27. The Art of Teaching

28. Paradise, Malakut!

1

Truth

Quest for it is from time uncountable

For truth and all that is knowable

The search goes on even this day

Believe me, it is ever on, ceaselessly

For the thirst is strong and demanding

For consciousness and understanding

Every atom in the world of existence

Having to do with all in the universe

But how should man truth attain

In all these various realms known

What tool does man employ to know

What source would he trust and follow

Is there one to bring all enlightenment

Is there one to ensure all advisement

Can eyes alone witness all realms

Are ears capable of all messages

Some dispute and say nay and never

There is more to know than see and hear

The truth must come no doubt, my friend

Yet tools and source first be conceived

If not, toil will surely end up foiled

By efforts made in wrongful end

So stop and think about this matter

And thus make your quest better

Many an angle of disputes parading

Some hold knowledge is man in making

All comes from man in his faking

To others is seen