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You think therefore I am
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You think therefore I am |
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the quell Member
since 2006-07-19
Posts 144Liverpool, UK 
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(Insomniac philosophy student alert) ~You think therefore I am~ Free speech grinds my creativity to chalk Scattering staccato, writhing in self-wrought chains Of language - that bluntest of instruments. To articulate is to diminish, to warp the raw essence To hammer and chisel those feather-light inklings, into forms as futile and blind As the slumping corpse of the God we have murdered Life cannot be understood... A stranger's face can shoot my mind to shards With exquisite care You look at me, with such gentle abuse And the most lethal of my dreams burn to the ground Tugging upon the ribbon-threads of my fragile skeleton, my limping soul Oh why...am I ugly to the bone? Life cannot be lived... Consolations only kindle the stirrings of agony When a demon is thrown back through the mirror Stained-glass parody, I am. A sphinx-like soul, languid in a pool of sterile fantasies Breathing, by TV light Life cannot be ignored... If I'm not unique, then I'm nothing The lonely harlequin in humanity's carnival-parade A single spark in the gold-hot furnace Torn from the world like a feather on the wind Life cannot be endured... Blood-scrawled hieroglyphs fading into the sands Sifting into blanched ghost-realms, where the paradox is fresh Night and day sit side by side, grinning like wolves And the dreamer's final cry begins to rip like paper... Life cannot be this... You've gone wrong! You've gone wrong in your mind-tank! |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
some depthy unlayering enjoyed it |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
oh I do remember the college days...philosophy class especially...what a fine write! |
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artexeres Member
since 2006-08-01
Posts 156south africa |
remember not past strivings it is the path of good that leads to final bliss a real cracker of a write well done most enjoyed. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
the quell Life is the chaos that it is. Enjoyed |
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SusieQ Junior Member
since 2006-08-01
Posts 40Michigan, USA |
I like this a lot. |
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seraphin Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1004Michigan |
You've done a masterful job on this work. |
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lace_of_light Junior Member
since 2006-08-02
Posts 44 |
I like it, even though it's not really my genre. And why don't you join the "shaky disposition" club? I haven't slept in ages... "areyouinorareyouout? eitherwayyoucan'twin." he said. "butthefallwillbefantasticandwhat'sleftisnothinglessthanperfection" |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
marvelous, and you color outside the lines so well this..... Blood-scrawled hieroglyphs fading into the sands Sifting into blanched ghost-realms, where the paradox is fresh Night and day sit side by side, grinning like wolves And the dreamer's final cry begins to rip like paper... made me feel like I was watching "The Mummy" Some amazing verbage here, along with inspiration and knowledge. Enjoyed |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Life IS! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
An excellent piece of paradox-soaked optimistic pessimism – or should that be pessimistic optimism? – or I think more likely still, optimism born out of pessimism – and an analysis that takes one in logical steps of gut-grinding honesty through optimism to the depths of pessimism and up again to an optimistic conclusion – or an optimistic conclusion that is about to burst forth! I loved the Descartes twist of the title! Well done! I loved this, but not its pain, though I believe that this pain is its own catharsis. - Owl |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Let me re-word that more accurately. . . . not the Descartes twist in the title, but the twist in the Descartes title! - Owl |
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