Viktor Poems

Calling

...Calling
To the I Am 
Alone and on my knees
In a valley filled with death's air 
His gift: Freedom in an endless expanse
My prison's narrow walls collapsed 
I walked in green meadows 
Seeing th...

Logotherapy - Feb 12

...The pressure to perform, which grips the soul
In the moment of action, digs its claw
Deep into the body, taking control —
Tense hands, weak knees, shallow breathing, clenched jaw —

Those sympto...

Redamancy Lament

...emotions are coursing over gnarled Travertine rocks 
surreal 
tears are my broken dream’s shards 
scattered on a barren soil

as my beloved rests in eternal sleep 
I opine
the lizard should ha...

Confrontation

...Shame & guilt had infiltrated the brain 
The man in the mirror was going insane 

Life is suffering, that's what Viktor Frankl said 
Vividly remember being alive but feeling dead 

Unaware, unc...

Flotus Flaunted Einstein Visa

...In March 2001, Melania granted green card
   asper elite EB-1 program
intended for renowned academic researchers,
   multinational business executives
   (linkedin with Uncle SAM)

or those in ...

Grabberwocky-2a

...Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove
Did whine and witter in the Brext.
All Szyddly was the Orban cove
And Grabberwock out-Mexed.

“Beware the Grabberwock, my dear,
The salesman’s talk, the dubious ...

Death

...As a literal phemomenon, Death is fearful.
As paradox, an antidote to fear. 
As life in death, it focuses on life.
As something absurd, one must cope with it,
Edmund Husserl or Viktor Frankl’ll h...

The Lay of Sir Donald

...The Lay of Sir Donald

(Or: Le Chanson de Donald)

An orange man – of red and trailing tie,
Small hands, and copious twitter-feed – sing I!
Most staunch ’gainst Saracen and Mede is he,
Bare-ar...

A Conflict

...In Saki’s story, the story teller tells the story
Of a virtuous school girl, 
Who lost her life— 
Precisely because of her virtues, as it were. 
The medals she was wearing, 
Which she had won fo...

When In Pain

...When I am in pain, 
My ego would be the first to leave,
As rats would a sinking ship;
The greater the pain the faster it leaves!
My drives get ready to play a masochistic role.
All philosophers,...

Grabberwocky-2

...(November 2016)

Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove
Did whine and witter in the Brext.
All Szyddly was the Orban cove
And Grabberwock out-Mexed.

“Beware the Grabberwock, my dear,
The salesman’s...

What Kind of People Are We

...What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall con...

The Gardener

...THE GARDENER



Captain  Viktor  Stogov?
Oh he’s gone now
Cancer took him
A cigarette killed him
Where ten years of 
Enemy tanks could not

His flowers blow in the spring breeze
Tulips daffodils and ...

City of Kiev

...The world is alit
City of Kiev it starts with you 
burning for your right to freedom 
of assembly and of humanity. 
Crumbling from strong arm 
tactics and corruption
Police roll down the street...

{humanity~"aida"~25....}

..."Mans Search For Meaning" ~ Viktor E. Frankl
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"You have a way with words," she said

As I walked her to her car, after class....

Sitting...

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