It occurred to me on a beach in Fiji that perhaps I think too much. Through the crystal waters I could see everything magnified. Color. Shape. Everything was clear. A chance you don’t get very often in Worcester. But why is it this way? Why does water do this? Why the colors? Why the eye? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘truth’
Gateway
Posted in Poetry, tagged beaches, color, lie, perception, truth, vision on May 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Obstacle I
Posted in Poetry, tagged decisions, I, obstacle, philosophy, selfhood, stranger, truth, understanding on March 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The obstacle I don’t see. Don’t hear. It don’t do anything. The obstacle I justifies endlessly. The obstacle I answers joyfully, proudly. It don’t care It don’t feel. Not the obstacle I. It exists to pad changing forces of sweeping earthquakes called decision. The obstacle I makes sure you don’t drown in the boat you [...]
To Tell You The Truth
Posted in Poetry, tagged lie, summary, teaching, truth on July 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The mis- take I make is to summarize anything. Everything. Summary is dishonesty. Honesty uses lies to plant more words in the head than in the ear.
The Queen’s Last Edict
Posted in Poetry, tagged light, mother, people, Queen, truth on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Queen sits on a stack of books. Gray eyes scan, Years of green looks having stolen their blue away. Through thick glass those aged seers follow long royal fingers as they pass unclear words. Her digits fear the end of turning. Her people are outside. Terror in its infinite softness forces them to choose. They cry like [...]
Nitty Gritty
Posted in Poetry, tagged Creation, destruction, honesty, Poetry, reality, selfhood, truth on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I I have never felt a baby kick I know only my mother tongue I have never lost a loved one to tuberculosis nor a nation to exile nor my life to myself. I have lost faith to philosophy only to arrive at a new faith. My generation has never been tyrannized or oppressed – [...]
Our Myth Part I
Posted in Didactic, myth, tagged Egoism, Humanity, Justification, Language, Modernity, myth, nakedness, philosophy, Poetry, sophistry, truth on August 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The unfortunate truth for those who hide themselves behind ration relativism is that what they are really looking for is justification, for ethical orders, for a completely irrefutable fact amidst a sea of turmoil – they are looking for truth. Oh sure, like the sophist they can speak around this issue but they cannot hide [...]
The Funeral Games
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged comedy, death, life, pain, perception, poems, Poetry, Spartan, truth on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature knew I would later write about her in the context of some Mercurial poem – One that before collecting some dust just barely missed the trash barrel that had collected the more ill-formed siblings. It’s a rather Spartan practice I suppose to dash such children against the rocks. It wasn’t their fault their feet were [...]
Said the Explorer -
Posted in Dialogue, Didactic, Poetry, tagged Children, Exploration, fiction, forgetting, lies, Memory, Modernity, truth on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I do not forget the ill affects of such mistakes I merely let my brain filter out Aztec pitfalls and much of the year spent with malaria. You see a life is not spent in history it forsakes plain facts in favor of context and narrative. The mind makes pilfering into excavation using the same justification as [...]
