I'm not a philosopher despite the fact that it is my belief that everyone with a thinking brain, and especially those without, is one, whether it be as a witting one or not. No, I'm not a Philosopher, despite my occasional philosophizing about philosophical stuff, in the same regard that I'm not a Poet, …
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Realm of the Benevolent and Its Loss of Hope
More weird, rambling, forgotten writing recently found while rooting 'round the cluttered Draft files folder. I don't remember writing it, ergo, I have no idea why it was written. However, as it appears to be a philosophical dilemma regarding torture, and, as torture has been one of the Freak Show promotional devices, I guess that …
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF INSPIRATION | A Relating to Humans Philosophical Issues Feature
THE PHILOSOPHY OF INSPIRATION by Rana Tarakji As Kurt explains it on his Welcome page, it is impossible to mingle with other human beings in an entirely pain-free manner. However, there is a difference between pain that aims to makes a person stronger and pain that aims at the opposite or has no aim at …
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While Hacking at a Log
I wonder... What is more important to most readers of literature... Just the words as they are written? Or the why the words were written - the author's motivation? Or the how the words were written - the author's background? When reading a thesis that may influence one's medical or legal decisions, knowing that the …
Haiku, Senryū, and the Subtleties In Their Similarities and Differences
If I had a bit more courage and a lot more scholarship, I would have discussed the similarities and differences between a haiku poem and a senryū poem in the introduction of my newly released book of poetry Short Verses & Other Curses: Haiku, Senryū, Tanka & Other Poetic, Artistic, & Photographic Miscellany. However, seeing …
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Short Verses & Other Curses – Promotional Giveaway Until 12/26/15
Get your promotional edition here. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: I began focusing much of my poetry writing on the Japanese poetic forms of haiku, senryū, and tanka at the beginning of 2012 as a therapeutic effort when finding myself in the midst of an illness. And I continue to write them even as I find myself, …
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Life Is
it's funny, life is we are so busy living we forget to live Let's Send The Year Out In Poetic Style See Newsletter Love (007-15) for details Must be a subscriber to participate
Restrictive We
restricted we are not by laws or by limits but by self alone
From “Ask and ye shall receive…”
To Be and ye shall be... #notetoself #iamthatiam #abundance
On Watch
that which would be missed that which would be desired just let it all go
What Must Be Must Be?
beyond the creek's bend sight unseen still it must flow but how do we know
Tangled
blossoms and decay from rose to a tangled rot such is this, our lot #boo
Fenc’d no. 9
life's dichotomies the blacks or whites, ins or outs the falsehoods or truths
Closure’s Clarity
bypass the hazard detours become the way true closure's clarity
Focus Is The Blur
life comes as a blur wanting no time for focus until it has passed
What Is It, This Life
what is it, this life I think I may know - do I this life, what is it
I AM GOD I AM
And God spake unto Moses, I Am That I Am! And I speak unto thee, Well then, so am I! I mean, seriously, that That in the name of God has to be the most ambiguous pronoun in the history of pronouns... I mean, seriously, that That's antecedent can be literally anything... …
Now Chooses Then
all that lies ahead were once choices to be made from now comes the then
Fenc’d no.8
life's truest restraints its most true and confining are those which we think #iamthatiam
Of Being
the truth of it all is found in that which is done all else is just dreams
Untroubled Retreat
Nowhere can [a dog] find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. MARCUS AURELIUS
Today, Regardless
still, the sun rises still, the wind blows, the trees sway still, I live to thrive
Where The Road Ends
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Country Roads Are Like No Other no.6
may the paths we walk though they may diverge at times stay true to our course
The Pier’s End
it's at the pier's end at the very edge of it where balance eludes
Country Roads Are Like No Other no.5
the absurdity cannot be denied by me yet still I believe
You As Now
it's not where you are it's why and it's how you are it's the now you are
Nebula Cultus no.5
During that half-measured beat of our lives for Heaven, we look upward to Sky for Hell, downward to Earth All while desperately, dependently, desirously existing within an infinitely expanding Universe - our One Song Eternal - a Rhythmical Void void of Direction of Time A Void where that which we seek be it that Heaven, …
Of That Which Is
Where does It come from The Matter of Science The That of God We think we know We believe we know But we're wrong And we're right You think I don't I believe You won't The Matter The That Forever trapped We are - within our thoughts within our beliefs - within an eternally transcendent …
A Guest Post by Poet & Author Manizha Sepas
I first reached out to Manizha Sepas to invite her to share more of her writing here right after she submitted her captivating poem A DIME IS WHAT I NEED to the Relating to Humans Poetry feature under the nom de plume of tamednomad. Well, my patience - and persistence - has finally been rewarded …
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Less the Impermanence
Nothing lasts Not the blossom Not the stone Nothing lasts Less the impermanence of it all
The Way True
here I am right now every second, minute, hour... seeking the way true
I Shall Return
I am of the earth so says god, so say the stars so shall I return
Literary Zen VII
Fenc’d no.7
Tho' bound by boundaries bound by boundaries 'Tis the warden found within That keeps us from our freedom Release the cage key to the wind
A Poetic Response to our Occult Relationship with the Vegetable as found in “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and …
I, Too, Am The Wood
I Am That I Am Is the name of He on High That, then, means it All That, then, means He, too, is I And that I, too, am the Wood
The Day’s Dark End
at the day's dark end when the shadows fell the sky what will be thy claim
Would You?
if you could, would you would you forsake it all -- life to spread wings and fly
Finally! A Relating to Humans Archive System
Like I am currently in the process of doing for my taxes, I had until recently also been procrastinating heavily on setting up an archive system for the Relating to Humans feature. However, yesterday, I finally got my proverbial butt in gear (I would really really like to know who came up with that saying...think …
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A Meditation on an Introduction’s Opening Passage as found in “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and …
Even when in the midst of a meltdown…
Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. ~ from The Discourses of Epictetus #notetoself #iamthatiam #prosochē #takenothingseriouslyseriously #snowpersonsarepeopletoo
A Meditation on a Title and an Introductory Poem as found in “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes; And speaks all languages of the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form Too often I'll show little regard to introductions and read through them with hardly …
Gazing subtle shadows of the winter sun
A contemplation of life’s profundity, beautifully and poetically so…courtesy of the lovely and loving Megi of HappyNest in America
Gazing subtle shadows of the winter sun
Sinking behind the distant trees
Wandering on the hazy farm road in the foreign land
Contempleting the meaning of my existence
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The Poem of Me
The poem of me from yesterday Is not that which I am today In many ways they may resemble But don't be fooled by what I say Look closely at what you hear Listen with more than just an ear The poem of me from yesterday Is not that which I am today You think …
An Abundance of Irony
Since I have a lot of time on my hands, I spend much of it (hey, I am a capitalist -- spending is what I do) reading articles on the web. While I'll read just about anything I happen upon, most of what I seek to read involves literature, politics, current events, and, as t'is …
Look at it this way…
What you are now looking at represents more than just a blog post. What you are really seeing is a stage... And these words are my performance.
“PRO” TIP: IF I CAN’T FIND YOU DO YOU EVEN REALLY EXIST?!
Short version - No. Less short version - A big fat ontological and/or (your choice) existential, HAYULL NO! Look, Poet (and by Poet I mean it to include all Writers and all Artists and all Photographers and all Tree House Interior Designers and all...heck, I guess to me a Poet is just about any daydreaming …
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