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Sun, 22 August 2004 22:01 
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I'm not sure if the content here is suitable at this site. Let me know if it is not-Ron Price, Tasmania. RESPONSE
Price's poetry, indeed all his work, should be seen as a response to questions posed by some sector of the International Baha'i Community, or by the conflicts and debates that were part of Baha'i community life in the late twentieth century, or within the context of the socio-cultural climate at the moment of their conception. When his poems are not responses to such explicit questions, conflicts and debates in the Baha'i community, they are his own responses to his own particular perceptions&experiences.
-Ron Price with thanks to Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt: 1821-1849, Princeton UP, 1976, p.156.
Dear father, help me now
to wend my way through paths
as difficult as yours
which I did watch when I was young,
but did not understand,
being too young
and only just begun.
Dear father, help me now
as I have helped you
over these many years
with my prayers,
by a mystic intercourse
I will never understand
to finish my days
by His means and ways.
Dear father, help me now
to sail across the quiet bays
and out to sea while this tempest plays.
Ron Price
29 September 1999
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