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Tag Archives: substance
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
Anybody’s Anything: droighneach
Nothing that is temporary becomes infinite;
each thing’s just a project. It starts and it finishes,
simply an effect of a cause, made of composites
that wax and wane. Being comes and then diminishes. Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, daily poems, droighneach, emptiness, eternity, illusion, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, relationships, substance, time
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What is Love: sestina
Is love a thing that lasts, or a mere trinket, a toy that fascinates until it bores, a passing fancy, or eternal compact between two souls and never any more, a gift from gods above, or social stricture meant as … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, eternity, French verse forms, illusion, love, perception, poetic forms, sestina, substance
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The Use of Dreams: rondine
What is the use of dreams devoid of action, that linger on as hopes before they die; and while they last, convince us if we try that in the end we will find satisfaction. Such wistful shadows taunt us to … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, action, dreams, effort, French verse forms, illusion, poetic forms, rondine, substance, success
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Salt of the Earth
Imagine a person made completely out of salt. If that person chooses to be immersed in the ocean, their very being is absorbed by the sea. Once their head is beneath the waves, no distinction can be made between their … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged illusions, infinity, oceans, parables, Ramakrishna, salt, substance
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How Many Times?
for Johnny Cash How many times must I repeat the same old tired line? How many times can this old heart be broken and be fine? It doesn’t take a genius to opine the odds are bound to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Lines, Planes
Tagged conflict, control, Johnny Cash, regret, relationships, style, substance
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Not Much of Everything
What is belief except a means to reach beyond the limits safe within our grasp to learn from the unknown what it may teach? If in that fertile darkness, courage fails, as well as our illusions of defense, what is … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, daily poems, darkness, faith, illusions, light, living, substance
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