God is
or He isn’t
All human reasoning
— dust in the wind
(Ode To Descartes: ‘I Believe, Therefore He Is’) May, 2024
Categories:
cartesian, god,
Form: Free verse
Reality’s made
of what
it is
Not what
it might
have been
The apple
landing
on my head
Bespeaks
of now
not then
All abstract
nature
Plato drawn
To live
behind
the mask
What’s real
in substance
real in form
No future
and
—no past
(Strafford Pennsylvania: November, 2023)
Categories:
cartesian, time,
Form: Rhyme
Rest assured in the knowledge you are
—without having to know why
(Dreansleep: May, 2022)
Categories:
cartesian, giving,
Form: Free verse
The Present
an undivided instant,
motion incarnate
senses believed
The Past left captive
to memory’s enigma,
the Future escaping
—wishes deceive
(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
Categories:
cartesian, time,
Form: Rhyme
Altering the future
confirms your existence
In for a penny
—out for a pound
(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)
Categories:
cartesian, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes I feel as though I, alone,
Can see, can hear
I, alone, can feel, am real.
Sometimes I believe that I, alone,
Am alive,
That I, alone,
Am alone.
© Barry Freeman – July 1976
Categories:
cartesian, philosophy,
Form: Free verse