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Poetry/Prose

  • Thy venerable vulnerable heart

    Poetry/Prose  · 

    The knife that plunges deepest into the heart causes the most pain and damage, but also lets the most light shine in and lets the most darkness seep out.
    This state of agony, where thoughts flow freely in and out, this, dear reader, is called vulnerability.
    And in vulnerability, those jewels of the spirit - our convictions -...

  • A Sisyphean Task

    Poetry/Prose  · 

    Find solace in thine tears, defiance in expression.
    Make perception thine knife, carve light from depression.

  • Contradictions

    Analysis, Poetry/Prose  · 

    “When one understands Brorson’s words - “When the heart is most oppressed, then the harp of joy is tuned”, then he has in them a motto for all poetic existence, which necessarily must be unhappy.” For poetry is the smoke of burning passion, and passion is the tension in contradictions - the will that holds together two opposing forces. Take...

  • False Florin

    Poetry/Prose  · 

    Forsake thine golden idol:
    The coveted coin that turns both sheep and lambs from the true way.
    For of the shepherd it has made a wolf,
    And of his flock, obedience to a mortal “salvation”.

    How woefully blind they must seem to passing travellers:
    Bound in rapture by woollen fetters and boasting self-made chains with souls...

Analysis

  • Contradictions

    Analysis, Poetry/Prose  · 

    “When one understands Brorson’s words - “When the heart is most oppressed, then the harp of joy is tuned”, then he has in them a motto for all poetic existence, which necessarily must be unhappy.” For poetry is the smoke of burning passion, and passion is the tension in contradictions - the will that holds together two opposing forces. Take...

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