Alterity

For dVerse OpenLinkNight. Short and sweet. Share your poem, long or short, polished or still in progress.

Alterity

That vast space between

I                            

                                 you.

Under

a gibbous moon,

philosophy failed,

and there I laid you

down, I laid you down.

Language

For Three Word Wednesday, prompt words focused, pair, vacant. Also submitted to dVerse OpenLinkNight. Short and sweet this week.

Language

I pared

a pair

of pears.

Focused

hocus-pocus,

well-meant

yet

vacant—

for

what does

“I”

imply?

Kierkegaard on existence

". . . whether I am moving in the world of sensate palpability or in the world of thought, I never reason in conclusion to existence, but I reason in conclusion from existence. For example, I do not demonstrate that a stone exists but that something which exists is a stone. The court of law does not demonstrate that a criminal exists but that the accused, who does indeed exists, is a criminal. Whether one wants to call existence an accessorium [addition] or the eternal prius [presupposition], it can never be demonstrated."

--Soren Kierkegaard, from Philosophical Fragments

William Blake on Perception

Man's perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he perceives more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover.

~William Blake, There is No Natural Religion