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3000.
Pulling Onions
The Onion of Being
Never stops growing
Layering layers over layers---
Giving us one peel a day
On our life's way
3001.
The Compass Points to Kindness
The Moral Compass of Buddhism:
Points to Compassion and Mindfulness,
Respect for all living beings,
Decency, detachment, Dharma,
Treading the Path to Enlightenment.
3002.
A Gentleman's Retreat
tired
worked hard
job done—
resting now
sipping rum
3003.
Some careless loud-mouths
Stir up a pot of shit
But never have the balls
To step into the pot of shit
Themselves. Blowhard Cowards.
3004.
Even the little flaws
Shined like diamonds;
Caught our attention
Were called beautiful---
The Beauty of Imperfections.
3005.
orange mascara
blue rouge
green lipstick
mauve eyebrows---
black screams
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3006.
His Hometown in the Rain
Tumuco, Chile:
Pablo Neruda's home town
Poverty, soaked clothes, stifled, unhappiness,
Few opportunities!
People move on...
Tumuco, Chile 1905
3007.
Freedom of the will is constrained
by sensible knowledge of the future
by using antecedent causes and reasons for
Finding ways for your family to survive---
Don't pretend to not know your future.
3oo8.
"For the poet is dead.
The pen, splintered on the sheer
Excesses of vision, unfingered, falls.
The heart-crookt hand, cold as a stone,
Lets it go down."
- William Everson (Brother Antoninus)
The Poet is Dead
For Robinson Jeffers
3009.
forest = for rest
happiness = happy nest
3010.
Calming as warm sunshine in winter
Refreshing as a cool breeze in summer
Blooming as a garden the spring
Letting go as trees in autumn.
Opening the doors of future years.
3011.
"I saw go by in my dream
Like a storm over sand
A great sword in one hand
An hourglass in the other
That horseman
Of German ballads
Whom across country through towns
Over rivers up mountains
Through forests down valleys
A Stallion ..."
- Paul Verlaine, Nightmare
3012.
Time travel - imaginary
Fictional - hypothetical-figurative
Back to the Future - reel time
Forward to the Past - speculate
Fantasies in the Now - create
3013.
Time slipped and slid
On the path to the future
Unsure of its direction.
Pushed by the Past;
Traveling very fast.
3014.
Utterances, Statements, Claims, Propositions:
Intelligent, well formed, being clear, making sense,
grammatically correct, logical, consistent, realistic,
declarative, verifiable, true, pointing to, confirmable,
showing something,
refutable, understood, factual.
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3021.
Onion Garden by Mike Garofalo
Concrete Poetry and Text Art by Mike Garofalo
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"The long wood winds down banks,
Narrow wood of firs, laurels, and pines.
The town sits like a village,
Red chalets scattered among greenery,
Bathing-stations, white villas.
The dark wood descends from a gorse-covered plain,
Is lost, seen again; it scoops hollows then rises
Green and black, falls away in thin copses.
The graveyard: filtered light bronzes
Sombre vague easy rows of sleep."
- Paul Verlaine, Bournemouth
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Quote
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Note:
This Webpage
Will be Completed
in
December of 2026!
3051.
Quote
3052.
No philosophic proposition outside formal logic
is separable from its semantic means and context.
"Poetry aims to reinvent language, to make it new.
Philosophy labors to make language rigorously
transparent, to purge it of ambiguity and confusion.”
Philosophy and poetry ... style, creativity, literary skill.
- George Steiner,
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
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"Patients in bleak hospitals
Are racked and thwarted
By false hopes of remission,
Consumed with dread
In midnight's corridor darkness..."
- Paul Verlaine, Snow in the Midst
3072.
3073.
A specified/defined event
occurred on Friday
but not on Sunday;
But not at the same time
on the same Tuesday.
(E v ~E) Today
(E ^ ~E) This Week
...... too simplified ......
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3100.
february BURrrrrrrrrr
a stillness
a hardness
a bleakness
a shiver—
a reminder of winter
3101.
How much time do I have left?
Is it a little, or is it a lot?
Are you counting by the official's clock.
I'm anxious as a tumbling rock
As nervous as ships rocking in docks.
3102.
My sense of time. It's slick.
My vision of time. Birds fly.
My telling of time. Wrist watch.
My edge of time. Age = 80.
My poem about time. Tick-Tock Tractatus
3103.
The present includes the past.
The past does not include the future.
The Past ≠ The Future
If present, then not the future.
The obvious is obvious because of habits.
3104.
3105.
Quintain Poetry Sections on this Webpage
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3111.
"Out in the current in the storm
The child clings tight to his mother
Who no longer knows what nor where...
Nor anything. Half-crazed her hopes lie
in the current in the storm."
- Paul Verlaine, A Widower Speaks
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3120.
All the facts available
Say the past was/is the case.
The World of Facts is our place,
For now, at least, for
All of tomorrow is not the case.
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3122.
3123.
3124.
3125.
3126.
3127.
I can know much about the future
without certainty about many things/events
and certainly about contingent events/things
and certainly not about everything---
I'm content, for now, planning a trip next Spring.
3128.
3129.
3130.
3140.
3150.
3155.
Give it some time, be patient:
More facts will arrive soon,
More information will come,
More reasons will be forthcoming---
We never have all the facts.
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The clock on the garage wall
Stopped working months ago;
Timlessly stuck on 12 to 4.
Needs a new battery:
Time requires Energy.
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3199.
3200.
Do No Harm:
Write a poem
Water your yard
Hug a child
Pat your dog
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Quintain Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Bundled Up:
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Bundled Up, Volume 2
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Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 5252, 555, 553 )
Quintains: Bibliography, Links, Notes
Quintains: Cloud Hands Blog Posts
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Time shows it sense
In everything we know and sense.
Time ain't true or false
Winter comes on time, never faults---
My old photographs fade over time.
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Our notions of time and time-games,
hang on the changing vocabularies
we/I/you/us choose to use
in a strong logic of description-depiction
of the actual flow of time under our shoes.
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3271.
3272.
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3274.
Facts about things are useful indeed
"Facts" are said by both who and when
"Truths about time" became falsehoods now.
The Thing-Totality of Our World
Is Shown, not said; but translated by "facts."
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3300.
Fates on the Run
The Fates changed trucks in Crescent City
Carried their Precious to Yachat's gritty
Guarded the Sacred with scabbard knives.
They ran, those Fates, chased by destinies,
Fearing free will, trapped by realities.
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Quintain Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Bundled Up:
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Original Quintain Poetry By Mike Garofalo
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Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 5252, 555, 553 )
Quintains: Bibliography, Links, Notes
Quintains: Cloud Hands Blog Posts
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Yes, facts multiply
But do they divide into facts?
Yes, the world has many facts
All stacked in rooms called Now and Past.
In the future, we will add more facts.
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3322.
3323.
In my quasi-logical place of late
I did not hesitate
To stretch my feet out
And meditate on future
Facts in logical space.
What?
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For the moment, Now, for me,
the world is the case.
Yesterday, the world was
actually the case.
Tomorrow's events are not the case.
God knows the future some say.
I don't think that way.
Some statements about future events
Are neither necessary nor impossible
and have no truth value.
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changing opportunities
in every moment
today is created anew—
pristine possibilities
changing opportunities
depending on you
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Quintain Poetry Sections on this Webpage
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Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 5252, 555, 553 )
Quintains: Bibliography, Links, Notes
Quintains: Cloud Hands Blog Posts
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I know it is raining or not raining.
It is raining or not raining right now.
Will it rain or not rain next Tuesday?
It did not rain last Thursday.
So what! I'm all wet.
3431.
That such and such is the case
May piss me off for all the day
Why should it be this damn way?
Next month, such and such will not be the case.
I will be very pleased come that day.
Reading About Wittgenstein 1975-
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Some lingering
around discussions about some philosophical matters
now appeared
pointless these days:
false, outdated, outlandish, nonsensical,
fictions, laughable, power trips ... often useless
to me and many.
Poetry loves to rock climb on the Edges of Nonsense.
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We can estimate future events from present ones.
We assume a causal nexus,
Not a "superstition" without a reason.
We define future events by many present ones:
predictions, probabilities, guesses, estimates,
anticipations, expectations, schedules...
OK, maybe not infer, but damn close anyway.
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"Almost naked and not naked
Through a cloud
Of lace revealing
Your skin which I run
My mad mouth over.
I want you lost in laughter
I want you to take charge
Wicked to the end
Worse if you wish
Serpentine with lust.
- Paul Verlaine, Seguidilla
3470.
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3481.
My dad was a fact of my life,
For 53 years a fact of reality.
He died, time moved on,
His fixed factuality grew dim
Once his case back when, not his case Now;
And not everything remained the same.
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