dVerse Poets – Poetics – Open Link Night
Lillian at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night where we post a poem of our choosing.
“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
We Were We were talking about Plato as you do over wine and, soon enough, Descartes, just as I thought I thought I was for a mo, until we moved to the moderns when she confessed Derrida and all that jazz, waxing lyrical about deconstruction as I slowly unbuttoned her blouse, after which we were completely existential. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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I had to look up Derrida.
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I enjoyed studying him some moons ago, so it leaks out here and there 🙂
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Beautifully written and sensual, Paul. This is such a beauty of a piece to read. ❤
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“waxing lyrical about deconstruction as I slowly unbuttoned her blouse”
These words made me smile…..clever wordsmithing and in to the completely existential too!
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Thank you Lillian
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Quite a philosophical route to passion! Phenomenology be hanged!
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Indeed, yes, thank you Beverly.
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Paul, you excel in this!
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Very kind, thank you Punam.
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You are welcome.
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Very clever! Unfortunately, I can never read anything about Descartes without hearing Monty Python singing in my head: “Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink therefore I am!”
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I have that song in my collection 🙂 it is delightful.
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😀
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👌
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🙂
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That made me chuckle, Paul, especially when I got to Liz’s comment. 🙂
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🙂 Liz certainly raised a laugh for me too, thank you Chris
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the philosophical to the sensual sounds more Freudian to me … 😉
well exposed, err I mean composed!
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Lol 🙂
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Existing is lovely, isn’t it? Sometimes it doesn’t seem worth the trouble, but it appears it did on this day. “I thought I thought I was for a mo”
😉
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It sure is lovely Lona, and thank you for sharing 😉
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From the book, “Ways to improve philosophical discussions.” Loved it.
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Definitely another fantastic one. At least you had played Jean Paul Sartre. 😉 Michael
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Sartre couldn’t be left out 😉 Thank you Micahel 🙂
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It’s brilliant. oh man! From where you get these ideas 😂💜loved it-Nandana
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Thank you indeed, very kind Nandana.
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This made me smile but a great poem and loved the twist at the end and the allusions
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🙂
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