Life & Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 30 Sep 2007
Brief commentary on this Dylan Thomas poem by J. Bronowski.
As in many of the Dylan Thomas poems, the central thought here is simple. It consists of the confrontation in each verse of the same ideas. One is the idea of green fuse, the power in nature that drives everything forward; we feel this, we share [...]
Literature & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 30 Sep 2007
Wish to share excerpt from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture- 1970
One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: “Beauty will save the world”. What sort of a statement is that? For a long time I considered it mere words. How could that be possible? When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything? [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 28 Sep 2007
Rivers and bridges, mountains, seas—do not give them new names.
They are as silly clothes or none, are no more than gossip.
Spend midday on foot; use a stick as a third thin leg;
save morning time and evening time for thought.
Wish for beds or mats you’ve never warmed, simple food
without excess drink, for poetry is the duty [...]
Economic Behaviour & Globalisation Entropy | 28 Sep 2007
As such, my friend Michele Roohani connected the thread to my earlier post on Globalisation :by the same author: to under noted article of published in recent New York Times..
By VACLAV HAVEL rague
OVER the past few years the questions have been asked ever more forcefully whether global climate changes occur in natural cycles [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 27 Sep 2007
Many times waking up
on a sable midnight
I have kept watching crystal clear dark.
This melt light of numerous stars
reposing on the Earth’s back
evokes as essence, conscious existence.
It flutter like a vast fabric
between the sky and the Earth’s crust.
Its silken flapping touches
brushes against me.
I have often sensed this darkness on the Earth
gently murmuring like an air current
at [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 26 Sep 2007
As indicated in my previous post, continuing by reproducing another gem by Max Babi. with his own brief commenatry.
Mareez: poet, writer of beautiful ghazals, lover of alcohol; a man who courts any muse visible to him; a man reduced to selling his poetry to businessmen who pass it off as their own- MAREEZ is [...]