by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | TR
Trump Cards Made of Satin Let’s not be coarse or subtle, but some cloth Between, perhaps like raw silk with nubbles In warp and woof. Let’s use the wise god, Thoth, As guide so no one’s falseness troubles Debating of the truth. We need the strong Resilience of...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | CO, ID, MA, PO
Ideals Are More Equal Ideals take over like a virus in Some minds. Disease of thought requires the pills Of fact-based rationality. The sin Of thinking based on higher thought makes ills In cultures and philosophy. The French Left wing refused to dally with the...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | SO
Calm Down, Gautama: the Escape is Eternal I fabricate myself a Soul. It needs Much less than what religions would impose. This Soul of mine is limited. It heeds My own creation, not the rows and rows Of rules that random deities require. Instead it recognizes...
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 | Oct 31, 2019 | JO
Yeah? So What? “Every joy wants eternity/ Joys want profound eternity” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, The Second Dance-Song If every joy wants to be without An end, that’s sad, yes, sad like Skelton as The Clown. The Clown can sweep around and...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | PH
Unthinkable in Philosophy (Certainly not Heidegger) Imagine a philosopher who writes In language clearer than the stars above Antarctic wastes, but warmly like the nights Scheherazade told tales in( to make love Last long enough to be true love). Her thought Would...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | MO
Modern Painting and Poetry True poetry creates emotions. Lack Of feeling means the lines have flunked the test: Some silhouette of poetry that’s black And white but isn’t like the wounded west At moonset, that is what the failure means. An elegance of...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | DE
A Timely Question “Have you thought about how long you’d like to inhabit your current body?” ~ Jaime Mathis, February 10, 2016 How long should I aspire to stay in this Old revenant–like form? It hasn’t had Rejuvenation vampires, cannot kiss Its way...
