Originally Posted by Baron

Know Thyself?

I took the dictum, --------------------( reason is treason foolish with masturbatory faith, but bit by bite bereft of love
“Know thyself,” and tried
to find this person -
but the search exposed
____a wealth
____of grief
and a very painful lesson.

____If ------------------------------( unknowable essence of apostles, i can almost hear the Protestant Reformation
you understand it, then
____it isn’t God, -----------------------( Truly shocked by this part! I'm so glad ewe get it true
Augustine wrote,
to impart the tiniest bit
in understanding
____who I’m not.---------------------(Wow, see/know/god/write/bit/part/knot or not?

“To thine own self be true”, --------------( Socratic prose, thanks for laughter inside linking gnostic theology to Hellenistic thought
said Will, a worthy proposition;------------(back to Elizabethan period to the lunacy of the psychological psychosis foolish with
this proves to be ------------------------(addiction to science & the bitter pill
____a bitter pill
____when I know
my disposition;----------------------(will/Will/pill/know/disposition/dispensation ... lovely

for I get lost in dire denial, --------------------------------( your composition recalls the Nile!
living compromise;---------( I think John said, "So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth."
with all my truths --------------( compromise is a terrible gift or grift
now placed on trial,
dawdling with dark doubt -------(FAITH!
____and lies.

These philosophical gleanings, -----------( Great intro/recalls Millet and medieval finally together/believe still though you don't know me
____a painful ---------------------( for we are the universe inside
mental labour -----------------( laboring for Hegelian laughter
____that reveals --------------------------------( that enjoy's the enjambments of St.John
my lack of meaning ----------------------( reveling Byronic meter, mentioned as thoughtful meanderings
and the need ---------------------- ( weeding a frond to a friend
____to find ----------------( aghast at finding a candle under the bowl is New Being in Jesus as Christ prancing Platonic with Sakyamuni
_________a saviour -----------------------( I thirst for More!

Originally Posted by peterphreak

Gosh, just lovely, Baron.

Originally Posted by Baron

I appreciate the time that you put into your analysis Peter. I sometimes think that your analyses are better than the poems.

Originally Posted by peterphreak

Dear Baron,

Don't blame me, blame her Eyes. Something about someone better than me, makes me stop and smell what's arisen in the rank. Some, i guess will become composers, but we'll all become compost some day. Thanks God.

Originally Posted by Mermaid on the breakwater

Just appreciating this one again.

On the dawdling debate: go with what you believe works best. There are only so many opinions you can entertain.