Originally posted by Grampy Bobby (Page 1)
Excellent comments. Also, 1) Our perceptions of other people are conditioned and/or informed by the frequency and proximity of our contact with them. Have they been conditioned/informed from afar in an online public forum through the lens of its prevailing standards of civility or privately via personal messages or emails or telephone calls ...[text shortened]... greement among friends." Adversarial attitudes and personal attack mode breed dysfunction and spam..
Realized earlier this morning during breakfast that I had posted my original poem "Never In The Eye" which contains the phrase
"mind's eye of the beheld" in its entirety on the Culture Forum in a thread titled "Poetry or Lyrics" created by FMF on December 18, 2012.
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“Never In The Eye”
Beauty was never in the eye
of the beholder,
much rather if anywhere
in the mind’s eye of the beheld.
And a thing of beauty
was never a joy,
nor forever
but unappreciated and transient.
And the root of all evil
was never money
but the love of it,
Mammon, the servant and footman
of the unrequited.
Neither is hell denied
its fury, nor a woman
ignored or deceived
who prefers
not to be scorned.
And a female is not a woman,
nor a woman a lady
and young girls
rape their own futures
in the early sun.
And a boy is not a man
before his mother.
Furniture is seldom if ever
made in the woods.
And having a pleasant day
is less pleasant
than outright possession
of the unpleasant truth.
No, my kinsman,
the common wisdom is too common.
Though less fragile
it survives.
Neither is all well
that appears to end well,
if held together subjectively
and in place with pins.
And no crass Bohemian
spilling gypsy blood for the masses
was Christ, nor Caesar
a salad, Napoleon a pastry,
nor the Duchess of Marlborough
some new cigarette.
(Boston, 1980)
Reflections on Spam
02 Jan '16 13:511 edit
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