Intellectual Architects



Voltaire just Kant angle cut it
Beauvoir broad side view
abut the narrow Rousseau 
gender Thoreau thought causeway
As Sarte Marx the entrance unlit — 
Avicena chapiters atop da Vinci pillars,
Stuart Mill sturdily sit
Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza
down to the Alighieri depths
Socrates ambience got a Dewey dungeon
decimal Fodio gradient affectation 
Awolowo still wanna Sodipo cubit cut it,
but some Augustinus genius
won’t even Nyerere beveling make 
the reed Descartes arch decision
Wollstonecraft overlaid on contoured Witt 
Piper leveled with Gargi precision ... 
A Solomon blueprint found in a keen closet
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Lovejoy-Burton Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 11:53 PM
Gone AWOL James Baldwin? Brilliant writer, reading him lately...and born on my birthday too. Stellar. Strong. A warrior for his generation and those to come. I like everything about this poem, but this the best, "A Solomon blueprint found in a keen closet".
Lovejoy-Burton Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 11:55 PM
...and this, "Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza down to the Alighieri depths..."
Lovejoy-Burton Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 11:53 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2itPoyM894
Blown Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 10:12 PM
so nice to hear from you : )
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