Sartre Poems - Poems about Sartre

Flower Power

...Sartre was precise in his definition of hell
Excluded from humanity for just a case of birth
I’m punished for the others and why they’ll never tell
I’m living through insanity of those who rule th...

God's Air

...Imagine that someone wants to argue against the existence of air
All the while breathing in air
The Catholics have the Mitered Buffoon
They say Protestants have the “Paper Pope” too
Immanuel Kant...

Outside Looking Inn

...Hiding again from the dazzling sun
Why am I here, I’ve no clue
There’s no necessity to walk around
No urgent business to do
Sounds like I’m killing the time, but I’m not
It is exactly the opposi...

Twilight

..."There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn 
and taken away from us at dusk." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
 
It’s a twilight time
and a veil of serenity
descends ...

A Waste of Space

...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t...

Breaking Through

...If Sartre was right
and
“Hell Is—Other People”
then
Isolation holds the key
that
opens perception’s door

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

Reckoning

...I sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped over
In comic reli...

Love's Theology

...Love so you may understand, says Aristotle
I read this with a vague startle.
Love's no ordinary knowledge, says Foucault
who made power/knowledge into an occult.
Love thy neighbor, says the Lord
...

Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3

...“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern W...

From the Window

...Last night
it was a whispering wind
All the windows
I had left open
An impressive poetry
of the wind in
the mosquito net
So said Jean-Paul Sartre
With your geometry
I was doing red and blue
...

Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two

... TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan

(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west ...

On Nothing

...“When you have nothing to write about, write about nothing” 
Christine Mazumdar - CBC Literary Writing Tip, 6:00 am, April 13, 2021 

I'll not venture into Sartre, that's too existential
...

The Link

...Neurotechnology,
a gift or a bane

With thoughts simply neurons,
case structure our brains

Is humanity destined
to merely plug in

Will all beauty and truth
be a programmer’s whim

And w...

Ah Liberty

...If
“Condemned To Be Free”
as Sartre said,
Then 
doom me forever
—unchained and unled 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: February, 2021)...

Existential Sweets

...Existence before essence as Sartre said

Xylographed from fountain and ink pen

In wood words intentions and meaning

Sculptures of thought bound in reality

Telescoped into prisms of here an...

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