Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Monday, August 30, 2004

Poiesis

As the sun begins to rise from behind the skyscrapers the clear sky,
white blue yellow into the horizon,
lights up the room as I turn off my lamps and prepare to go to sleep for a day,
tired but proud of the day and night's accomplishments,
having finally eradicated excess desire,
boredom and suffering,
I can feel nothing but joyous bliss while happily patiently awaiting death,
I expect to feel pain and misery,
sadness and depression,
anger and hatred,
resentment and regret,
accompanied by confused thoughts that won't assemble even into any clear structure,
forgetting will save the day when it's used to ruining it,
I have so much I have to do that I continue to put off,
the music must stop.
I will have no peace even with castrato's chanting "love" incessantly,
to sweet soft harmonious organ chords,
or the sound of children laughing in melodious ryhthm:
the devil's trombone out of key blasting behind karaoke,
revelie repeating itself and the alarm not stopping;
But hope for the peace and joy the next day will bring,
having no desire to want to gratify that is unattainable,
no suffering but the boredom that arises when desire pesters,
when I let my guard down and a want sneaks in causing havoc,
upsetting the sleep of the soldiers,
yet always failing to destroy the structure it wants to demolish,
as it is caught almost instantly only increasing security,
protecting the peace of suffering/want/boredom's absence,
being toward death enjoying the ability to be patient,
for the time will come when there will be no more time to be patient,
to wait,
and then,
no more.

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