Immanuel Kant, is reason above everything, even above the soul?: A poem 

Yes, knowledge can’t be automatic,  We can realise that we pick up along the way!  Our senses teach us, may be, even the idiosyncracies  and our follies. Everything seems like scientific reasoning, does it not?   I can see a child at play, learning to even love,  As if love was just a mere sensation? Kant? Or emotion,  for that matter? Do you think we start withContinue reading “Immanuel Kant, is reason above everything, even above the soul?: A poem “

Nietzsche, Hesse, my identity is my own, like yours is yours!: A poem 

We are a fabric of ourselves, like a light  shining inward, without a belying education;  and shining outward in defiance!  What would we choose to be  the enemies of mankind for upholding the truth?  A truth that resolutes us and gives the firmness   of bones to our souls, should we seek leisure in falsehoods  and snap our cores? But we will never be tepid   as those fraught with deception, because we see  Continue reading “Nietzsche, Hesse, my identity is my own, like yours is yours!: A poem “

Plotinus, I see as you saw!: A poem 

What is the pursuit of happiness,  Does it boil down to achievement,   pleasure, indulgence or coveting?  We can be as unthinkingly selfish  as children are at times, giving   back love or loyalty, a rebuke!  And we can be parents who think  material gratification is the love   they owe their children. The necessary   gifts are not handed out, they are exemplified!  Was Santa the biggestContinue reading “Plotinus, I see as you saw!: A poem “

Don of La Mancha; and the windmills were a watery deluge!: A poem 

Would you believe that I am an illusionist as much   as I am fed by illusions? Would you have my powers to  discern blindfolded and deluded, then? I have never just begun to realise  the dichotomy of my love and loyalties, or the perversion of my spiritedness,  the manipulation of my thoughts, words and deeds to suit treachery   I have understood in myContinue reading “Don of La Mancha; and the windmills were a watery deluge!: A poem “

I know love survives heartbreak, because true love doesn’t break: A poem 

I can figure out the disfigurements  And make infrastructure out of every fracture  I am not a loss of ingenuity, in the overwhelmingly   intimidating connivance. Even time has no substance!  I can grow self upon self; and never forget the self  that lies buried deep under. This is a condition  of my earthliness. I don’t need archaelogy  to discover whatContinue reading “I know love survives heartbreak, because true love doesn’t break: A poem “

Epictetus, I have two ears and one mouth; but I still don’t take advice: A poem 

Epictetus, you know I believe in stoicism,  much like you; but I discern and beg to differ! There are words hidden under the pillows  of appearances, which take your comfort away  But there are many more obvious, as you wake,  that only feel soft and nurturing, but are like seeds  that breed weeds in your illusory garden!  The truthContinue reading “Epictetus, I have two ears and one mouth; but I still don’t take advice: A poem “

So much to do in loneliness…: A poem 

So much to do in loneliness! So much to find!  So much to hide behind! The birds are flying   from one rooftop to another; and I am only  seeking the rooftops, not wanting the homes  under them; not seeking the lives in store  not knocking at the windows, not knocking at   the doors…not wanting…not panging, pining Continue reading “So much to do in loneliness…: A poem “

And the stoic spoke to the cynic…: A poem 

We can’t be widowed from existence if we seek no desire  That earth still lives and still owns its crystal flaming fire  You can see that we turned down wanting for wanting  the flame of a presence in absolute unrandomness  of inventing our own Schrodinger’s box without the   blackbox of all conventional behaviouralism. And  every quark that forms its multidimensional state  abounds without the gravity of presentContinue reading “And the stoic spoke to the cynic…: A poem “

Leo Tolstoy, unlike you I never stood on the edge of a precipice: A poem 

Would you have faith consolidated as you grow older  Every layer that falls upon layer, like magma that heats  with excitement of revelation and cools and solidifies into wisdom?  You know, Leo, I can see you hanging on the ledge of a precipice,  when you lost faith in your childhood religion, feeling threadbare,  and wandering so faithless. I just thought, I too lost faithContinue reading “Leo Tolstoy, unlike you I never stood on the edge of a precipice: A poem “

Mother, shining with sunlight, I ask you a question?: A poem 

Do you think I can never have the seat of justice,  no throne of truth? What would I do then,  if an eternity passed me by, just wielding the  philosophers’ stone, like a thingamajig  without an iota of magical outcomes?  What would I feel reposed on, a siege perilous?  With everybody dancing in the darkness  of self-preservation,Continue reading “Mother, shining with sunlight, I ask you a question?: A poem “