Wednesday, April 22, 2009

That is to say

Is there anything real in the world?
Or is it that we recognize good,
say success, by listening for the statements that we believe?

Is there anything real in the world?
That is to say: Is it that we recognize
a positive or a negative
by listening for the statements that we were taught to believe?

4 comments:

anita said...

Everyone likes self-affirmation, because it reinforces our reality that is the "self".

I think.


word veri: stern

cara said...

interesting. gives me much to think on, both the poem and what Anita said...

Anonymous said...

http://alabelforartists.blogspot.com/2005/12/sunlight-rings-on-winters-snow.html

wotan said...

certainly there is something true.

But it is ineffable. Untranslatable. Words can only grasp at it with groping hands and gnashing teeth.