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Premium MemberFlickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume

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The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume,...
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Categories: empirically, philosophy,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberPolitical HIStory Legends

...Testosterone performance history
shows great narcissistic
straight male supremacist
empire-building

Empirically right-justified
just sacred war apartheid
RightHand verbal 
male scribe domina...
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Categories: empirically, analogy, anger, fear, history,
Form: Political Verse



Premium MemberThe Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality

...("Niobe's Tear", 2020, original encaustic)

The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality

The world has always been divided
Along lines of haves and have nots
In whatever way you wish
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Categories: empirically, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Sojourn With Deathly Swans

...there is no fire in the lavender skies of February
it is as if all that exists with warmth, light and desire
has fled to the future
it is here that the white swans muse and ponder
slowly stirring...
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Categories: empirically, feelings, heartbroken, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDivide By Zero

...The abstract is creative confusion,
    Both infinite and void with its form.
        Compartmentalized by any illusion,
            Then broken down before any storm.
These pieces seem to only g...
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Categories: empirically, imagination, science,
Form: Quatrain



Actio Ad Deum

...The Agent Intellect…
God speaking loud
Aquinas his servant,
empirically proud

Action is needed,
the soul lies in wait
The body left wanting
—new pearls for the gate

(Villanova University:...
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Categories: empirically, god,
Form: Rhyme

More Shrewdness

...A long time has passed while these spectacular seasons 
continue to renew themselves unlikely dormant awareness;       
images of the past clout me on the head 
and rebuke me for having failed to ...
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Categories: empirically, character, conflict, culture, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFlower Songs For Emily

...She lay on a hospital bed like a pale rose wilting on a pillow sham 
done were her days of counting every morsel of food and gram  

they told her if she stopped eating she would cease to live and...
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Categories: empirically, addiction,
Form: Couplet

Philosophy G700d - I Kant Prove God

...Immanuel Kant, changed the spelling of his name from Emmanuel to "Immanuel" to accord with its Hebrew meaning: "God is with us." So, this quintessential Enlightenment thinker  - and Thomas Jefferson ...
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Categories: empirically, america, appreciation, bible, god,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberRome V Home

...It is not necessarily established as True
that all capitalist
and patriarchal red roads
lead back to EmpireBuilding Rome

Ancient Rome as original win/lose supremacist Home
unveils no more than...
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Categories: empirically, bullying, caregiving, christmas, green,
Form: Political Verse

Satyrical

...Today i am writing
lyrically satirically
no not a miracle
empirically panegyrical
clovened hoof maybe
i am...
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Categories: empirically, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDescent

...Descent

The engram in our genes
has found
the opposing thumb and descent from trees
empirically sound,
but being pragmatic denies Kultur
an Imprimatur.

NOTHING SUBTLE WORKS
is Nature's th...
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Categories: empirically, irony, parody, success,
Form: Light Verse

Benzo

...Let’s be honest, I’m not that honest.
Be honest, 
Just this once.
Forget all the dilutions of grandeur,
The noise.
Eat it so hard in the teeth that your mouth has a voice.
Unclench your tongue ...
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Categories: empirically, 1st grade, anger, boy,
Form: Canzone

Premium MemberNational Public Radiators

...All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably...
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Categories: empirically, conflict, crazy, creation, earth
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPerennial Problems

...I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.

Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even...
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Categories: empirically, culture, history, humor, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse

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