St Kilda, Scotland
... "Despair is generally defined as a loss of hope. In existentialism, it is more specifically a loss of hope in reaction to a breakdown in one or more of the defining qualities of one's self ...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, 11th grade, bird, environment,
Form: Tetractys
One Spark
...The abyss of nothingness
looms large in my consciousness
Churning each moment
belaying the time
From Nietzsche to Kierkegaard
their vacuum surrounds me
An active volcano
—whose lava is prime...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Solitary Horse
...He played in the hills that day,
And in the evening he heard the call to gather,
And he came running,
Eager that he might learn.
He listened to the older horses:
No horse is lucky till dead .....
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Categories:
kierkegaard, angst, animal, horse, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
I Will Not Be a Yeats
...Yeats and I share the same sentiment:
Ageing is absurd.
But Yeats could not cope with it;
He called it a caricature.
But I not only know but also feel—
Old is gold!
I won’t be a Yeats!
Ye...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, god, happiness, life, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
When In Pain
...When I am in pain,
My ego would be the first to leave,
As rats would a sinking ship;
The greater the pain the faster it leaves!
My drives get ready to play a masochistic role.
All philosophers,...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, inspirational, motivation, pain, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Absurdity
...Is it a new phenomenon,
Known to the world
Through Beckett and Camus?
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.
Oedipus, Bhartrhari, Buddha—all,
Over a period of intense suffering,
Learnt t...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, analogy,
Form: Lyric
Embrace the Chaos
...Not conscious of infinities blast Big Bang into reality our matter hurled
The Moira in our ancient past held us captive in this world
The blessings are the curses in every man’s situation
A pro...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, life, religion, science, ,
Form: Free verse
Fragility of Wealth
...Fragility of Wealth
by Odin Roark
He had known riches,
This man wandering desolate landscapes,
Once so generous of harvest.
But now…
He had seen it coming,
It was but...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Skyping With Satan
...Me: Since Samhain I have been chatting with Satan on Skype..On this date he celebrates his fall from grace..
Satan: Thank you Ken..You look marvelous today..What is your routine? You haven't aged in...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, dark, hope, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
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:
kierkegaard, humor, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
I Dream
...I dream about my democratic socialist twin
sitting in that beautiful world
Above din and roar
Where light shines down
And fills entire world
Lovespace
Suffocating hatespace
Reaching into depth...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, political,
Form: Free verse
Contemplating Kierkegaard
...I too believe
Flowers have more purposes than the bringing of fruit
So that all of me is not known
Though dig to the bedrock of my root
And I have feared that I shall go away
Before the golden f...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, philosophyme, sick,
Form: Free verse
The Function of Prayer
..."The function of Prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one
who prays".
Soren Kierkegaard...
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Categories:
kierkegaard, prayer,
Form: I do not know?