Posted on February 17, 2012, in Poetry, Writing and tagged College, Disaffection, Grieved, Madness, Paranoia, Social commentary, Surrealism. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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“You should stop words and letters, and learn to withdraw and reflect on yourself. When you do so, your body and mind will naturally fall away, and your original Buddha nature will appear.” – Dogen.
Now, where can I find . . . ?
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Stacked in the back room
Filed but not forgotten
Admissions of a structure junky
Stringy theories . . .
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Very creative! Thanks for the definition on Aunt Sally — never would have known. Great stuff!
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Probably the key to the whole poem. We know something is terribly wrong with the way we are living and the way we are going, but somehow don’t seem to be able to identify exactly what it is or how to combat or fix it. There are plenty of targets, but somehow they end up revealing themselves as simply distractions and just another piece of the jigsaw. This seems equally true at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, national and global levels.
Otherwise, everything is fine. Do have another chocolate.
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Thanks for the Aunt Sally explanation – with that in mind, the poem is a powerful, and unfortunately accurate, reading of what’s going on in every corner of the world these days. Now I’m going to go back and read it again, and maybe again!
(and funny, I just did have another chocolate before reading your comment to Zumpoems 🙂 ).
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Hmmm … 😛
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What’s funny, or perhaps horrible was that I didn’t look at it any other way than on a personal level. Perhaps it is because I have not watched the news in any shape of form since the end of 2009. There was a time I went a year and a half with zero television. It was lovely.
Loved this poem nonetheless. I was able to look inside myself with it and found it very thought provoking. ♥
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When I live alone I never have a TV. My wife likes us to have one, although we are very picky about what we choose to watch.
When I first wrote this piece (it has been amended a couple of times) I was stuck inside an “educational” system stuck inside a criminally insane “society” and my understanding of and intent with the poem was highly coloured by that. At a distance I see so much more in it these days.
I am glad it is still working anyway, and that it spoke to you.I will admit that it nearly ended up in the bin a couple of times over the years. (Hence the rewrites.) These days I almost like it. 😛 Our relationship continues to evolve, whereas with much of what I write it’s quite clear cut and unchanging.
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