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The Wormhole Wore a Waistcoat

...

She entered unannounced; no bell, no brass. The aperture, a bureaucratic lapse in Nature’s accounting, permitted transit for the curious, not the wise. Through corridors of warped conjecture, she...

Categories: schopenhauer, fantasy, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Haibun

Laconic Teutonic

...To cross the street Herr Biedermeyer
made a firm election:
the spot was safe – Gefahrengasse -
strictly one-direction.

But, looking south and stepping out,
he got a sharp surprise:
a car, app...

Categories: schopenhauer, satire,
Form: Ballad

If tomorrow, she's not there

...If tomorrow
She’s not there
I will live 
A life
In despair
I would fall 
Away
From her hand
Deflated
Flat
No light
Could I bare
I would wallow
In my sorrow
Exist
Only 
In my self-pity...

Categories: schopenhauer, life, loss, lost, love,
Form: Free verse

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Between Reality and Understanding

...A thought arose...

In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!

While S...

Categories: schopenhauer, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse

You Can'T Judge a Book By Its Cover

...French proverb: L'habit ne fait pas le moine.
English equivalent: You can't judge a book by its cover.
My interpretation: The work one does is not always an accurate indicator of the kind of person...

Categories: schopenhauer, humor,
Form: Light Verse

How Bout Knowing Naught

...A not so gentle kick in the patooty and sent on
I would prefer to need no recourse to your legal so called expertise and that goes for your medical too I repeat
I'd prefer to do without
Perhaps if...

Categories: schopenhauer, books,
Form: Prose Poetry

Marat and Charlotte

...(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)

Actors:

Jean-Paul Marat; 
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.

Act 1. A tavern. Two philo...

Categories: schopenhauer, death, life, love,
Form: Blank verse

Humdumpty's Great Fall

...Humdumpty was an analyst, a Cambridge Ph.D.,
A noted bio-atomist, whatever that might  be. 
Indeed, from earliest childhood it was his single aim 
To analyze no matter what might enter his domain....

Categories: schopenhauer, allegory, husband, science,
Form: Didactic

Dialogue With Arthur Schopenhauer

...Do men have a right to live or is it an obligation 
for men to survive in this world of full of disgust?
That decision, though no one but men themselves have to make,
the blind evil almighty WILL,...

Categories: schopenhauer, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, universe,
Form: Narrative

In Tchibo Germany

...In Tchibo Germany,
enjoy a cup of coffee, 
idea from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche...

Categories: schopenhauer, confusion, dark, lost,
Form: Haiku

The Will To Life

...What makes man love so 
blindly
Why does man love so blindly
What makes man love at first 
sight
Why does the sight of her fill 
man with delight
What can man do to try to 
forget
Why does m...

Categories: schopenhauer, love
Form: Rhyme

Internet Education

...I have an internet education 
I graduate everyday
I have an internet education
I bookmark my favorite page

I know about civil war
In Bosnia and the Sudan 
and that one in the United States
t...

Categories: schopenhauer, computer-internet, introspection, philosophy, education,
Form: Narrative

Mrs Protheroe

...MRS PROTHEROE 

The Night Your Landlady Came To Your Room 

by Robert Davidson 

A loose gown in which her flesh swam free 
Fascinated 
Your eyes resting diffidently, the full white breasts 
...

Categories: schopenhauer, hope, life, love, passion,
Form: Free verse