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Derrida Poems - Poems about Derrida


The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part I
...I used to be ashamed to say that I once wrote for a rather large company, the kind the likes to print up greeting cards, and for some reason, make Christmas movies. Now this caused much conster......

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Categories: derrida, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad,
Form: Epic
It
...IT is, is IT? If No, then forget about IT. If Yes, then what is IT? A fundamental question. Multiple fundamentalist answers— Formal and or Functional? For most of us IT is anthropomorphic So......

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Categories: derrida, absence, confusion, philosophy, religion,
Form: Free verse



Freedom To Write
...“Writing [maketh] an exact Man,” claims Francis Bacon. Macaulay’s Minutes is our bible. Derrida emphasizes the Primacy of Writing. Freedom to write is also guaranteed— by our Indian Constitu......

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Categories: derrida, education, freedom, irony,
Form: Free verse
A Philosophical Predicament
...Philosophers, down the ages, Have strenuously tried To figure out language: Their numerous narratives polarize Into two Grand narratives, a binary: Language is referential / differential. Th......

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Categories: derrida, language, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
On Closed Path
...Closure I would aim at, As did the little one In Tagore’s poem Closed Path. But Derrida has warned me: Language is an open system! *** Composed on October 19, 2017 Winner, Poetry contest,......

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Categories: derrida, poems,
Form: Free verse



On Derrida
...The French were proud to say: Ce qui n’est pas clair n’est pas Français! Derrida broke the pride! ***......

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Categories: derrida, humorous, irony,
Form: Free verse
Primal Magic
...Surd and absurd are – at bottom – synonymous! Absurd? Yes, of course. So are canny and uncanny. Sub- can mean high or (be)low Post- can mean Post- or Pre-! Again, in Tamil, naatram once meant......

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Categories: derrida, language,
Form: Lyric
Who Would Have Thought
...I’m finding Derrida de-structured And Levinas‘ face makes me smile Who would have conjectured That one day I’d lecture On thoughfulness and all its trials? I prefer Kierkegaard to Sartre Who ......

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Categories: derrida, humor, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
The Wannabe Automatic Writer
...when he was younger he jammed out on the guitar, bore a fro & then graduated from brown--- following this, him & his hippie gal got married, popped out a few rug-rats & sooner than later he was at gr......

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Categories: derrida, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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