From The Beholden by
                          Mary Angela Nangini
Links Tour: For Human Potential and Its Shadow
Sample Poetry from her manuscript The Beholden by Mary Angela Nangini: one of the 11 finalists in the Rielo Mystical Poetry Prize 2001

For more sample poems:
The Beholden
Being Metaphor Shadow: In Memoriam 09-11-01
Human Potential: Overlaid Bisociations
Human Shadow: 3P Chameleons
Being Metaphor : Being Butterfly
Borderlines


There is no
        dividing line
        today

The fog came out
       and ate the borderline
Between lake and sky
       and erased the distance.

Couldn't we learn from nature
work with miracles
and mist over borderline hate
among humans?
Cowards!

Abusers who dispatch. enlist. bribe. blackmail. recruit.
secondary abusers..........are cowards.

Professional. criminal. bandits.
....who use the everyday working law-abiding citizen
using everyday, common sounds and actions
to perpetuate the legal stalemate to retain a win
to keep on doing wrong!
Searching for persons at leisure, at play or in retirement,
garnering the inexperienced opportune youthful trust
and anyone right - for the timely place and function
to do the needed sordid deeds deemed normal
to the eye, and ear and heart.

The enigma of when wrong is right and right is wrong
is the perennially perplexing paradox of moral..
ground zero growth zones of the unmindful
the amoral halcyonic artifice proclamation:
     Speak your mind and you'll be found insane
     Keep silent and you'll go stark raving mad
     This is the truth of the catch 22 game:
     Mind can resist for how long
     Madness underscores intrepid strength
     Time draws its limits in the sand

Except...this myopic declaration
Is reasoning that's soul-dead wrong!

Rationality has a blind spot
When the wholeness factor is compromised without
Integrity, honesty and community in the Action-Response:
Waged profiteering, domineering and calculating crassness
Your ascribed acrid winning posts
Become the essential markers -the buoys dodged
Steering the spirit's search for hope.

The secondary abuser becomes primary witness
Standing against the evils accrued by stone hearts
To reveal and expose the false: Each testimony given
Connects the chain of humanity -you, would vow to break
Unless the self-proclaimed action signals inversion
And one after another is lost to the darkness of human.

NB: Take note. The abuse of truth by lie
Is vanquished in the end and final round
The Kingdom of God is and shall be found
Even by those whose hearts are sold:
Christ has already won!
Colours of Love


God's Word
Given Birth
Hope
 
     Green of our Earth
   
         Purple Passion
                  
Royal Aura
Emanation Force
        
Warm Glow Warm
                  Flush
                       Pink-blush
                L O V E  
         Joy-Hot

Pure Spirit
         Palpating Wonder
              Glory-inspiring Grandeur
                           Emanating forth
                 
Purple Passion
        
Royal Aura
God's Word
Given Birth

Green
            
the Hope of the Earth.
Mary Angela Nangini
nangini@authorsden.com