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Disgusting: Four By Six
DISGUSTING
You call it disgusting
But was it disgusting
Up until the moment
You called it disgusting?
Words Lie
WORDS LIE
Words lie
In a pile like logs
Heaps ordered or untidy
Words lie
Or can be used to do so
(And to be honest often are)
Words lie
Playfully ambivalent
Fallow yet likewise burgeoning
Words lie
With one another wantonly
Following decree or whimsy
Words lie
As they work together to shape
The destiny of each fickle fairy land
Words lie
Ready to construct a cosy warmth
Or for dispatching the odd heretic or two
Words lie
In wait clutching their brief
Keys to justice or injustice
Words lie
Words shape, constrict ideation
Damn and blast unwelcome fact
Words lie
Whispering in our ear
Perhaps all we have in the end
Words lie
Just in case
Just in case
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This was written as a contribution to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt No. 60.
https://secretkeeper.net/2016/10/24/weekly-writing-challenge-60/
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Guilt And Shame
GUILT AND SHAME
No one is judging
You imagined the whole think
And you are the judge
Polling Day
POLLING DAY
You always did your best
From your own point of view
And who am I to judge
Beyond my point of view?
Margaret III
MARGARET III
Someone once
(pontificating)
Announced that all my poems
Were merely songs
But then
She was ridden by demons so I
(mostly)
forgave her
Observations
OBSERVATIONS
No me to be right
Likewise no me to be wrong
What we encounter
Is what we see it to be
The observer no less so
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“The world is an illusion; it has no real existence. And this is what is meant by ‘imagination’ (khayāl). For you just imagine that it (i.e. the world) is an autonomous reality quite different from and independent of the Absolute Reality, while in truth it is nothing of the sort. Know that you yourself are an imagination. And everything that you perceive and say to yourself, ‘this is not me’ is also an imagination. So that the whole world of existence is imagination within imagination.”
– Ibn Arabi.
Making A Difference
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
If you must differentiate
Try to do so horizontally
Rather than vertically
Oh God!
OH GOD!
On the one hand – God
On the other – Religion
While in the between
Lie didactic certainty
And much misunderstanding
A Judgement On Judgement
A JUDGEMENT ON JUDGEMENT
What shall we make of our life?
A worldwide sightseeing tour
Or else a fault-finding mission?
For we shall never find a fault
Beyond those t’was we defined?
