Tuesday, February 22, 2011

ODYSSEY IN SEARCH OF MEANING


"The point of view which I am struggling to attack is perhaps related to the metaphysical theory of the substantial unity of the soul: for my meaning is, that the poet has, not a 'personality' to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways."
T.S. Eliot
(from 'Tradition and the Individual Talent,' 1920)


true reality
is not just
fact or fiction
but
solidity and creativity
that go beyond
and
into
the silent land
of the microscopic
eye



p.s.
perhaps
a flower
has more
reality
than any
machine

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

EPITAPH



Poetry was the Pillow
Where I laid my head
Until my Life was dead
And I Dreamed awake on
Eternity's bed.