Demetrios Trifiatis Poet Epigram

Reason

REASON


“…For what is seen is temporary,
but what I see is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18
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Oh, Reason,
You wise charioteer of
Our senses,
Firmly into your
Hands hold my
Perception’s bridle
And guide my galloping
Insight
Onto the veiled
Path of reality that,
Among myriad trails of
Phenomena unfolds
Undetected by my corporeal
Eyes.

I beg you, oh reason, to
Steer my understanding
Towards the ethereal heavens
So
My mind would be able to
Get a glimpse of the
ETERNAL!



© Demetrios Trifiatis
    31 January 2013

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Donna Jones January 31, 2013 at 7:58 PM Getting through daily trails, they is only one way and you captured it here. Wonderful

Elizabeth Wesley January 31, 2013 at 12:49 PM There's so much guidance and action in what you say here. I feel as though you are taking me by the hand to a better place. Wonderful to read and feel as though someone understands! Lizzie Demetrios Trifiatis January 31, 2013 at 2:00 PM The truth can be seen by those who are willing to see. You are one of those people! Thank you!

Russell Sivey January 31, 2013 at 10:18 AM I love your reasoning with this eternal write my friend! I am enthralled by the wisdom of your words and the inquiry of your senses! What a dynamic piece, Great Work!! Demetrios Trifiatis January 31, 2013 at 1:58 PM Thank you for your kindness!

Eileen Manassian January 31, 2013 at 4:11 AM Very interesting and deep! :) But...sometimes reason comes up empty handed. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned says the Word. For that we need the spirit of God!.....I'm just being silly in my little world of philosophy, Demetiros! :) You are very wise indeed! Demetrios Trifiatis January 31, 2013 at 4:35 AM Dear Eileen, God gave us this tool,reason, to use for to discern between phenomena and noumena (object of a non-sensible intuition, Kant). Reason, here, is the starting point of inquiry. Later on though, as you see,I plead reason to guide My insight through the unseen path for to see the Eternal. We should not confuse Philosophy and Religion for, as you know, the one is Deductive and the other Inductive. Thank you for your Comments!

Litha Ishmael January 31, 2013 at 2:22 AM ...Synonymous with wisdom. True, whatever we do is guided by our reason, how it percieves. But reason has its mighty counterpart - instinct. Demetrios Trifiatis January 31, 2013 at 3:37 AM Reason is the tool, wisdom the outcome, instict is innate knowledge that needs justification! Thank you my friend!