Nothing is true

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Shem
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Nothing is true

Post by Shem » July 4th, 2012, 2:09 pm

“Nothing is true, everything is permitted”
Wine and sex, the meat of poetry.
SPEAK, Speak, Write!
Holding back,
Holding back is what is not permitted.
To let the narrow golden thread
Flow through you.
No edits, no re-writes,
The MOMENT.
The moment,
ever fleeting is the goal.
That which can never
quite be caught.



“Everything is true, nothing is permitted.”
The pure light of absolute truth,
who could function beneath that all piercing gaze?
What of humanity survives
truth
all pervasive?
The artist,
Poets,
Madmen.
It is the artist’s task to dance in that light
to embrace the inevitable end
and beginning
“Everything is true, everything is permitted.”
Leave the letter that never begins to go find the latter that ever comes to end, written in smoke and blurred by mist and signed of solitude, sealed of night.
-James Joyce

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Re: Nothing is true

Post by still.trucking » July 4th, 2012, 2:19 pm

most of all I enjoy how the poems flow in consciousness, mingle and intertwine in memory

"and then above all else they must not hold their tongues
when others masticate the language that they speak

prohibited are meat and wine and intercourse
unless converted into verse"

enjoyed the poem
thank you for writing
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." Barbara Ehrenreich

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dadio
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Re: Nothing is true

Post by dadio » July 5th, 2012, 2:40 am

Dostoyevsky feel here. Fine poem & theme. 8)

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