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Partly because I was bored, partly because I was wondering whether to enter a poetry competition or not, and partly because I felt like I need to produce something that could capture the attention of my esteemed poetic colleague Daniel, I took 15 minutes of a Sunday night writing up a sonnet about an idea that I had thought about on and off for the past year or so. I still have an idea for a short story that I would like to pursue, but it might have to incubate a bit longer before I decide it's the right time to reap its bacterial goodness. But I digress.
While my poem falls short of Daniel's literary genius, I do hope some people can appreciate the ideas I'm putting forward, and if not, at least take the time to laugh at me for being an idiot because I honestly thought I could write poetry. If you want to read some awesome poetry then visit Daniel's blog: http://dansapoet.blogspot.com/. Alternatively, it's on my sidebar. Then if you want some more light-hearted blogging go on over to my good friend William Ngiam's blog: http://ngiammy-lonelyboy.blogspot.com/. Again, this is also in my sidebar. But I digress. On with the poem:
Memories
Like wispy trails of smoke they float,
Ethereal and empyrean threads of the mind.
With erratic energy in frantic flight,
They are the keys to our Psyche.
Enablers of percipience, internal Athenaeum
Of restless discovery and human progression,
The world as it is exists through their presence.
Through them we know who we are.
But when these vaporous essences disappear,
Our map to the world evanesces.
And as a distant present replaces our lost past,
Nothing is as it seems. Nothing is as it was.
They say that we can never experience beyond our final breath.
They are wrong, for in this lifetime, we can experience this living death.
That's it from me today. I'm slightly short of ideas for what to blog about today, so feel free to make suggestions in the comments section. And obviously I can't please both William and Daniel with the length of my posts, as one likes them short, and the other likes them long.
Seriously though, I've tried to cater for both by making it relatively short and including poetry. Hope that helps.
Till next time, may you agglomerate all your unpremeditated contemplations.
3 comments:
It's a nice poem! I started to wonder whether this was going into the TOK-underworld, but haha, it was alright.
Quite a deep poem actually. :)
5/5.
Epic plugs, Return of digression. All round awesome.
But more importantly, thank you so much. After to reading your fabulous poem you kick started me out of my creative recession, and have inspired me to get off my e-ass and write something.
Ah, we are such a nerdy trio :P
i like :P and you should enter that competitions ;)
once again, not much can be said by: nice work eric :P
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