Blank Slate

What a wonder! Nothing was written! Absolutely free!
Bee, sea, tree - I can create whatever I want to see.
Receptively blank as the almighty designed it well,
It can in each sketch His miraculous mysteries spell...!

Tabula rasa, John Locke calls it - no readymade concepts,
Like nectar in a flower, facts fill in all its contents;
The environment like my mother nurses my actions,
My caring and rearing enable all my attractions...!

I am like a natural child, devoid of compulsions,
My growing intelligence expulses all convulsions;
The Blank Slate - nature's hardware - analyzes all awareness,
My contemplations - software - set them rightly in fairness...!!!


06 February 2023
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Rodrigues Avatar
February 6, 2023 at 2:09 PM
I don’t think we are born as blank slates but each with a personality. Does our environment shape us…surely. Nice fodder for thought, my friend!
Alex Avatar
February 7, 2023 at 6:49 PM
Thank you very much. May God Bless You!
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