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Spinoza commented on: my lost world by Spinoza 3 days 5 hours* ago* would do the trick: Always the pleasure Cascade… yeah, no doubt – a reset button would do the trick. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: One Spark is a Galaxy by patriciajj 3 days 13 hours* ago* all the difference : one life makes all the difference. and, knowing that Love stitches galaxy to galaxy, and everything, together, remember who they are. And let us remember the name – Starward. Because I know of no one, over the many years… who gives as great as he… of his soul, of his mind, of his time, and of his dedicated contribution – as this one shining star. And I can’t possibly tell you, how many dark mornings I’ve woke to with no hope for humanity, where this man has left me a beautiful soulful comment, or an exchange of personal messages – and given me a new trail of light, to get me through my day. [ go to comment ]
sweetwater commented on: DOWN PERVERSE TRAILS by Stephen 3 days 13 hours* ago* To me this reads like a great: To me this reads like a great song, I love the second and third lines particularly. [ go to comment ]
sweetwater commented on: SECRETIVE SMILE by Stephen 3 days 13 hours* ago* How wonderful to be like this: How wonderful to be like this woman, a temptress to all eyes. A weilder of power. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: (under the influence of Kant) M O R E by _bohemian. 3 days 14 hours* ago* always loved Kant: The Categorical Imperative is a worthy modus operandi, and a maxim worthy of universal law. It is however, but a rippling reverberation – of do onto others. A resounding echo of that very principle. The state of the world, is what it is – because we are far-removed from it. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: embrace the emptiness (an Eastern narrative) by _bohemian. 3 days 14 hours* ago* simple diagnosis : Outside the boundary of flesh, all things are limitless. Internal poverty, is merely a confederacy of our neural patterns. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: manic depression by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* a matter of volition : The natural terrain of life, has many elevations. Yet so few, are willing to climb – and descend. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: telling truth to liars by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* o-i-l: o-i-l [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: telling truth to liars by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* oiled pearls: Better pearls in the anus, than cast before swine. The greatest standing Truth of Time. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: the feel of a freshly starched straitjacket by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* default décor: A freshly starched straitjacket, is the default décor of most minds. One must learn the ways of Harry to escape it, in a timely manner. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: dirty piggy fuck (under the influence of the Marquis de Sade) by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* nearly always: The libertine path is but one of many. Nearly always, a starting point to evolution. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: to my heart by _bohemian. 3 days 15 hours* ago* Nothing more, nothing less: The mistakes of yesterday, are the remembrances of tomorrow. Nothing more, nothing less. [ go to comment ]
Spinoza commented on: pick your poison by _bohemian. 3 days 16 hours* ago* indeed: indeed [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Weeping, An Old Man Visits His Former BoyFriend's Tombstone by Starward 3 days 19 hours* ago* Thank you for the comment,: Thank you for the comment, and for understanding what I was attempting to present in the poem. Although I have lost no one to the kind of violence described in the poem, I still mourn the failures in my life to acknowledge and accept the truth; and, in my old age, it is one of the most haunting of my disappointments. Expressing that through the poem's speaker, and then allowing him to find hope among those circumstances, also helps me to reconnect as well. Thank you for reading and commenting. [ go to comment ]
patriciajj commented on: @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Weeping, An Old Man Visits His Former BoyFriend's Tombstone by Starward 3 days 20 hours* ago* Right away, a piercing image: Right away, a piercing image is formed as the first lines suggest pangs of survivor outrage over the "forty-nine years" that were ruthlessly stolen from the beloved while the speaker dies a slow and natural death. What made this vehicle of heart-crumbling loss and rocketing love engaging for me was the mechanics of the poem as much as the awe-inspiring contemplations. An agile stream, crossing the boundaries of formal syntax, applying enjambment like a pro and roaming widely like an old man's irrepressible thoughts and longings, it was an ascending, musical, appropriate background for the highly charged moment at the tombstone. If this were only a story about grief, it would be moving and beautiful enough, but you went beyond the cliches and challenged the power of time itself as the old man decreed: "Yawning and gaping, the maul of the/ grave will receive my carcass, but not my/ love for you . . ." Then the quality of that love, "ensconsed so far/ beyond the stars", is investigated and found to be unrivaled by Earthly concerns as it travels inward and outward, reaching both subatomic and astronomical proportions, in other words, beyond the known universe. This could only be possible if the concept of "spirit" was brought into the equation, resulting in the rare type of encounter when the "exquisite coalescence our souls converged/ through the gravitated attraction to each other". A metaphysical victory. Wondrous! [ go to comment ]