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Tag Archives: impermanence
What You Think It Is
It isn’t what you think it is at all.
There is no solid substance underneath.
Just one small push will make the whole thing fall,
and patching it together, to be brief,
is just a pointless exercise, designed
to take you far beyond your breaking point,
and there, when you begin to lose your mind,
to leave you helplessly and fully out of joint. Continue reading
The Five Pillars
I’ll write this down because I might forget, and in the morning not be as profound. The pillars underlying everything, at least the point of view that shapes my world, are time, essence, identity, impermanence, and illusion. These five interconnected … Continue reading
The Time Not Now: villanelle
The time not now will never come to pass.
What is born here today, this day will die.
All this that is was never built to last.
The past does not go slow, nor future fast,
yet both what is and was confuse the eye.
The time not now will never come to pass. Continue reading
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What You See: triolet
What you see is what you get.
Be careful since the eyes can lie –
a simple truth we often can forget:
what you see is what you get,
and once you’ve got it, you’re in debt
to those who’ve shown you what to buy.
What you see is what you get.
Be careful, since the eyes can lie. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, destiny, fate, French verse forms, impermanence, poetic forms, time, triolet
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The End of the World: sonnet (English)
Perhaps the world will end tomorrow night.
With so few sane in charge, that would make sense.
Besides, if the Cassandras have it right,
it’s way past time for sitting on the fence,
pretending that our waking up at last
can make a whit of difference to the tide. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, apocalypse, beginnings, endings, English sonnet, impermanence, poetic forms, Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet, survival, worry
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A Soul in Cement: sonnet (sonetto rispetto)
I will not live my whole life just to spite
one more imagined evil at my door,
some cloud determined to block out my light,
or leave my spirit destitute. No more.
Why be a tool for either left or right,
when a binary choice is still piss-poor?
You’re always wrong when you pick just one side,
and where you end depends on how you ride. Continue reading
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Any Day Now: Sicilian sestet
Beneath the whisper quiet rush of dawnas the still sleeping earth begins to wake,before the last vestige of dark is goneand daylight gives its weary head a shake,enjoying one more furtive stretch and yawn,the chains of each new yesterday can … Continue reading
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