Long Spinoza Poems

His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius. Albert Einstein’s brother was a monster, his name, FrankEinstein.

Einstein was asked to appear alongside the comic actor Charlie Chaplin during the...

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Issues, like mushrooms, spring up when two or more humans meet, 
Issues start from how you are and what size is monkey's feet;
And thus my friend and I, like nail and flesh - same age...

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On the skeleton of a sleeping goddess is my beloved Netherlands, 
Waters in her branches are curling my roots as a Dutchman 
And her gigantic heart seemed to born the beauties you may choose and...

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"Phenomonology"

time drips through
the lens of philosophy 
phenomonology melts
the solid realisation;
was all that time 
spent inconsequential, 
the purpose of it all
bought abruptly, 
for an expected cost
(for this annal
somewhere soft 
and vaseline-lensed, 
we anticipate, it is never
an...

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Archimedes slipped in the shower
          Diogenes drowned in a barrel 
               ...

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Loving Nature without loving God is a neat trick
But as I love Nature, how could I complain?
Are you a humanist? Spinoza a guy with a large brain
Defined God as Nature; if one is not the...

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The sciences attempt
   an explanation 
  Yet each new discovery 
leads to another mystery 
   The source of all 
is something our 
finite minds cannot put into words
  ...

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Voltaire just Kant angle cut it
Beauvoir broad side view
abut the narrow Rousseau 
gender Thoreau thought causeway
As Sarte Marx the entrance unlit — 
Avicena chapiters atop da Vinci pillars,
Stuart Mill sturdily sit
Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza
down...

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I
At home with Shankara & Ramanuja
As with Spinoza, Kant, and Buber
Seventy years on earth, to 1950, heir
To Thought of East, West, 'Father Nature'
Fought for Independent India, from 'Raj'
Taught we must do spiritual evolution
Community and nation...

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