Tabula Rasa
You never knew you would make it till here,
Rising above the sky was never a chance
New beginnings don't end happily always
A true fighter at all times stands on the ground
Comfort never proved to be a true healer
You never knew you would make it to the ground.
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Categories:
tabula, africa, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
TABULA RASA
monotonous
pulsating
perceptions
of
formal
coherence
in
open-ended
fantastical
fragments
in
the hinterlands
of
ambivalence
gaps
hiatus
lacunae
errors
&contradictons
discarded
then
restored
an eclectic
mystery
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Categories:
tabula, word play,
Form: Verse
Ode for a Fortunate Infant
Ode for a Fortunate Infant
Newborn:
Smacked and
Screaming —
Hardly more than a new fact,
A statistic
Already forgetting
The crush into Becoming.
This “tabula rasa,”
Kicking and flailing,
Not yet swaddled or cradled,
Held only by Fate
In the first minutes of Destiny
(unformed and
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Categories:
tabula, birth, blessing, family, identity,
Form: Ode
Tabula Rasa
TABULA RASA
A mystery, even to myself
I’m not an ogre nor an elf
Am I really a mouse that roared
My soul still remains unexplored
A mixture of thought and feelings
Matured somewhat in my dealings
Perhaps old wine that’s gently poured
My soul still remains unexplored
Enough of this hocus-pocus
I might suffer from poor focus
Yet when I looked down as I soared
My
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Categories:
tabula, self,
Form: Kyrielle
Tabula Rasa
Children understand children
no one else can.
Adults are not equipped with that
spotless white board
that none have written upon.
A bear cub knows it is protected
if knows nothing more.
Its mother must teach it,
mold it into into a creature
that can fight its way through
the hard shell
of this cracked world.
Instruction by example
and molding are two
very different ways to teach.
Children instinctively
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Categories:
tabula, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tabula Fractus
Tabula Fractus
come with me to this moment
where remembering begins
the bubbles in my head pop
and there we are
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Categories:
tabula, age, anger, autumn, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Tabula Rasa
It’s the awkward pause when I draw a blank.
All the dreams I can’t recall.
And those whispered tender mercies
That don’t echo down the hall.
It’s the lack of depth to the story’s plot;
Not much drama after all these years.
It’s the empty stare when I hear a song
That used to always bring me tears.
It’s forsaken anniversaries
And birthdays
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Categories:
tabula, allegory, lost love, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Tabula Rasa Confession
We are born we are consciou, we do not possess mind
Mind is a work in progress of life.
It builds through the days of experiencial time
conscious’s right there, right there so sublime
Tabula rasa not more then a lie
A misunderstanding of conscious and mind.
A magical, mystical, invisible battlement
Prove of quantum physics entanglement
A
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Categories:
tabula, art,
Form: Rhyme
Tabula Rasa
tabula rasa
when a child has no memory
one can say clean slates, after a few days they pick up
the basic like crying when hungry
from there on we fill the baby with what we know
a knowledge handed down from our parents, and the child
when it learns to read believes without reflection
what they are told must
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Categories:
tabula, blessing, child, fate,
Form: Blank verse
Tabula Rasa
No, my child,
our soul is not a " tabula rasa" as some men of
learning want to make us believe
for
our Lord has
written on her volumes of His wisdom, that life's
experience, helps us to retrieve!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
27 January 2020
* Tabula rasa is the theory that our soul is a blank sheet of
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Categories:
tabula, life, people, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Tabula Rasa
A mind born, clear, clean, free without
restriction, obligation, responsibility.
A mind nourished, taught what it will surely be,
taught of my environments, my person,
my personalities and is molded, a duplicate of me.
Along life’s way. a happening, a melding
comes knocking at the door of the mind
that is clear, clean, free, no restrictions,
obligation, responsibility, that is a duplicate of
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Categories:
tabula, age, anxiety, birth, child,
Form: Free verse
Tabula Rasa
This house is empty
without you
though you've never been
here to fill it.
I thought it would help
to find a place
you have never touched.
But all I am has
been touched
by you and there is
nowhere to go.
How can laughter echo
through a place
it has never sounded?
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Categories:
tabula, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
I'M Tabula Rasa Flux
I'm me, in me, I'm Tabula, in mental corrode
Desiring to be nurtured, to see my future road
I'm me, in me, I'm fragments of where I should be
My names Tabula Rasa Flux, and I should flow so free
I've touched the stone, now I await through the night
Knowing I was in their shadows end, to meet their
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Categories:
tabula, imagination, music,
Form: Rhyme
Tabula Rasa
Page upon daunting page;
Chaste white awaiting impression.
A vast archive, consisting only
Of untold stories,
And unsung songs.
From blank to blemished,
Vision must fill the void.
Meaning is born to idealism,
And to intellect.
Conception is the key.
Emaciation is only cured
When emancipation takes place.
Endless possibilites are written,
Upon the blank slate.
Emptiness evokes evolution.
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Categories:
tabula, imagination, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Tabula Rasa
Setting ground rules
Mind tabulates
Sorting rocks from emeralds
One day the sky breaks-
Tabula rasa!
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Categories:
tabula, allegory
Form: Free verse
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