Geoffrey Chaucer – radical druid

The Eyes Have It: Chaucerian madrigal

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by JRL

If we can see a thing, we call those blind
who claim that it is nothing, just a dream,
and ridicule each other’s faulty eyes,

imagining the great truths that we find
are the exclusive provenance of “mine”.
If we can see a thing, we call those blind
who claim that it is nothing, just a dream.

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What Good is That: rime royal

Posted on May 2, 2017 by John

What is the Truth, that we spend all our days, from birth to death, imagining so fair that we invent, seek to avoid or praise some vain ideal constructed from thin air, that as illusion is beyond compare; it casts religions merely to take form that neither breathes nor catches fire to warm. What is […]

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