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Out of Plumb: a caudate sonnet
When will these foolish notions dissipate and take their place with dreams, safe in the grave? How long must I be some grand idea’s slave, locked in an endless struggle with my fate? How much of life will pass me … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, caudate sonnet, knowledge, martyrdom, poetic forms, sacrifice, truth
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For Starlight: cancione
I cannot claim to know her; at best, I’ve mapped the surface: those little nooks and crannies that she feels like revealing. More knowledge would not help me; to understand more deeply, would take a lifetime’s effort and skills beyond my grasping. But what she deigns to show me, that small part I can handle, in just over a decade
has become sun- and moon-rise: my alpha and omega. There is no life without her, no breath, no flowing current; she is my one and only. Continue reading
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Tagged cancione, goddess, Italian verse forms, knowledge, longing, love, poetic forms, Starlight Dances
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This is the oyster
This is the oyster; why seek for the pearl? There’s no escape plan for leaving this world in my religion: no hereafter gold, no burning embers, no cold of Sheol. This is the medicine; why seek a pill to flee … Continue reading
Confucious
The words that rend my soul’s speech are my own; they are not borrowed from another’s lines. From someone else’s field, of their seeds sown, come not the fruits due me at harvest time. To posit otherwise is to admit … Continue reading
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Tagged Confucious, education, gurus, knowledge, responsibility, teaching, words
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Socrates
Each grain of sand that populates the endless span of shore seems to be some small answer, yet implies that there is more to knowing than to learn by rote some formulas or rules; and when compared to the wide … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, knowledge, loss, regret, relativity, Socrates, time
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Rabelais
I would un-Crowley Rabelais to taste, unplagiarized the simple, yet sarcastic truths that Aleister disguised: that man, if left the sole device of acting with free will would, after some adjustment, neither harm, debase or kill but would instead seek … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Francois Rabelais, knowledge, misinterpretation, plagiarism, wit
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The Food (for Thought) of the Gods
Who decides what lives, what dies, based on more than the needs of some, but on what is best for the entire world so balance can be maintained? Who thinks they have the right to choose that some should flourish … Continue reading