Philosophy Nothingness Poems

Subash Khanal

Is it to be something?
-Being nothingness
Like Not looking at the window 
And not speaking in the crowd 
Not knowing the city 
And not shouting...

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I have seen you flash by
Amidst thick green foliage and swaying pines
Like a distant silver dream
On receding skyline
But was never satisfied
For a close encounter I...

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Nothingness neither space nor time 
Between then and now, now and then
What was no more, is now...begin
Blank mind with no rhyme
Where there is not anything...

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within nothing, 
there are memories 
other than your absence

everything,
on the other hand,
is entirely made of
your presence....

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To contemplate nothing with something, a Sisyphean task
The mind’s paths, like Escher’s roads, simply double back
To land again in somethingness, explanations lack
Yet our deeper selves...

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He awakes and listens for the clamor 
of the city only to find he cannot hear.

He gets up to find he cannot speak, 
and the...

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The sensation of nothingness, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Sensacion de la nada

Consider, no matter what, even something agreeable
falls so low : in the...

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This victim of self like a snake
Broken heart to devour my pride
And then what coils around will awake
Ouroboros eating his lies

This hero of truth like...

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Stillness permeates soulfully
Beyond all
Far past wherever falling
Tears dissolve
Still it rains soft warming
Summer showers
The wave of quiet assaults
Deep into my eyes
Lingering about invisibly
Stilled shadows
Endless in it’s...

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He awakes and listens for the clamor 
of the city only to find he cannot hear.

He gets up to find he cannot speak, 
and the...

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When time's hands stint
At 5 o'clock, the mass 
Discontinue.
Rolling money comes to a halt,
Pulls up at the red lights.
All drudgery abandoned.
Terminate awaiting deadlines
As the ever...

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