by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | ET, GR, OR
Etymology of Orpheus If “of the river bank” is what the name Of Orpheus might mean,* then that might flow From jet slick River Hades and the shame Of failing to recover, to the glow Of life and sunlight, his lost love. Again It might refer to two of his five...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2020 | ET, IM
Perpetual Quietude Why would immortal gods or angels pause In thankfulness for moments, hours — for time? Why would such beings think it needs applause Since after all each day is just a chime To tell them they have years forever. Souls Eternal in their...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | ET
In English a Double Positive is a Negative: Yeah, Right In Nietzsche’s thinking, joy dies and lives Again, again, again, and yet because It comes around eternally, he gives It an eternal life, and then a pause Of death, then life again, upraising in Its dying and...
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2019 | ET, NI
Nietzsche’s Law of the Eternal Recurrence http://norsemathology.org Repetition is powerless before Ecstasy. Rosaries cannot deny The urge for semen, chanting still the whore. Adultery invades the manly eye A hundred trillion...
