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COGITO ERGO SUM

COGITO ERGO SUM

I think, therefore I am
Cogito Ergo Sum
As in Latin it’s said
But I’m not a linguist
My headache feels like lead

I think, therefore I am
And my brain tells me so
Am I defined by thought
My neurons are firing
But may still come to naught

I think, therefore I am
So said Rene Descartes
It’s his first principle
Mankind realises
And is invincible

I think, therefore I am
Basics of existence
This is fundamental
But a French perspective
He was continental

Cogito Ergo Sum I Exist

I scribble because I exist
I exist because I write
I survive in my yearnings

Cogito Ergo Sum I Buy I Exist

I have my fears
I have my brakes
but without much thinking
I buy myself many things.
I accumulate many .debts...
Out of fear I tell myself some things
to rationalize and apologize...
I buy, I consume...
Soon I exist...!
 Cogito ergo sum ! !

Cogito

Every last one of my thoughts
Is begged, borrowed or stolen 
Somewhere in memory
They are freeze-dried or frozen 

I want to chip at the edifice
Want to recognize what's real
Is it some second-hand artifact
Or a thing I can call real?

Every last one of my friends
Is there because I put them 
In some sub-cavernous lair 
Like a pre-ancestral cushion 

I want to loose my tethers 
Get back to a primal state 
Take some peyote and howl in the wind
At the village doctor's gate 

Is there a demon in the sky
A malevolent presence in the cosmos 
Willing it all in a masquerade 
And playing off my base illusions? 
No wonder we live
No wonder we live 
In a state of unbridled confusion

Ukrainian Cogito

I fight, I live, I die, therefore I am!

My thoughts, my thoughts,
You give me strength.
The winds of war had scattered 
my soul, until I read these lines
in a sad column, just specks of truth.

My misfortune blown away
with the cogito, in our Ukraine
orphaned children have stories to 
pass on to the next generation, of
a heroic nation under fire and mothers
sending their kids to the front
with tender words and affection.

I fight, therefore I am -- a proud son, daughter, a Ukrainian resistance
with candid air of freedom in my clenched fist.

My thoughts, my beliefs strong like a rock
carry me to being here and now, present in history,
absent in defeat.

Cogito Ergo Sum

I'm not notable reader of the rich Latin language,
That treasures within its realm mountainous barns of knowledge…
Thoughts and philosophies, like symphony, around-the-clock,
To this ocean, like sea animals, for full refuge, flock...

Of all, like sediments, one who has settled in my mind,
And floats to the surface, like unfettered feather inter-twined;
Is Rene Descartes – French, who’d taught - cogito, ergo sum,
That altered my concepts, to rationalism, to succumb...

I think, therefore I exist; no existence otherwise?
Is this very concept, yet, as highest as the great skies?
Accessible knowledge; test of best methodical doubt,
Doubting the very existence; whether it's flood or drought...

Fond rebuilding; single-lined philosophy; so modern!
When I teach it to my students they seem problem-ridden;
To me, yet, this phrase and philosophy are august fun,
Like irrational thought battles lost early, are now won...


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Cogito Ergo Sum Libero

“Destiny” implies
a controlling external force - 
the random positioning of planets in solar orbit,
or the mysterious machinations of a spurious spirit in the sky - 
both impressively improbable and laughably unlikely.
Occam’s razor slashes!
And free will is the last rational refuge standing...

September 14, 2020

Cogito Ergo Sum

I wonder...

if that known
were but a dream
and that unknown
were real,
do I exist?

or...

if that known
does not exist
and that unknown
ceases existence
upon becoming known,
can I exist?

Cogito Ergo Erras

Science hears what,
  Philosophy why

The deafest of twins
  —singing in the same choir

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Cogito Ergo Something

The account of Descartes was redoubtable:
“I exist, since this thought is undoubtable.”
   Mister Hume peered inside,
   Said, “I see naught besides
Just my thoughts, so your logic is floutable.”

Cogito Ergo Sum

I Think Therefore I Am
     do I think
     or am I just a parrot
     barking back ideas
     someone spoke in my ear

Cogito Ergo Sum Confusion

What if the great Rene Descartes,
Renaissance man of many parts.
for all his fame and coruscation
is nothing but a fine creation
of my own imagination?

Philosophically disabused.
I think therefore I am

confused.

Cogito Ergo Sum

If a light  thinker,  I am superficial...
If ponderous,  I am the elephant
in the room, unwanted and unloved.
If I think at all,  I am minority,
wandering from problem to conclusion—
again..again 
bringing forth curious glances
from everyone who likes one's own conclusions
undisturbed, set in place,
like rows of potted plants 
drying over winter.

It is better only to see, not to act.
It is more gentle to the mind
to sit in the attic with a book,
making notes in the margins,
listening to Bartok on the tape,
and wondering if it is safe
to descend the stairs
and banter with the world again.

And what of the world?
To whom does it belong?
If it thinks, are we one?
If it falters, are we lovers?
It is dangerous business, this brazen act
of cogitating.  It is the province
of world movers, and rogues.
Perhaps, among us all,
there is more hope for the rogues.
Deo Gratias.
                   ~

Cogito Ergo Sum

I often sit and ponder many things 
A host of multifarious subjects: 
A few perhaps are shallow but they bring
Me food for thought, the balance are complex.
At times I think about the universe
 The sphere of life and death experience.
Those thoughts alone I find myself immersed
In deepest meditation, Transcendence.
And other times I’m simply lost in thought.
Perchance a past event or maybe lines
Of Poetry. My mind has never sought
Retreat. Whatever enters leaves behind
Itself forever nourishing my mind
Improving knowledge gained from Humankind.

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