Great Thoughts Poem by gershon hepner
Great Thoughts
Standing in a grove of greatest thoughts
is thought by some to be quite hideous,
but in a wilderness where thought aborts
grow horrors that are more insidious,
because the mind, when it’s deserted, can
attack the body on which it must prey
in order to devise a safety plan,
enabling emptiness to go away.
Without such plans it can’t survive
unless it turns to drugs and demon drink:
great thoughts can help a body to revive,
before it isn’t later than you think.
Inspired by a poem by Kay Ryan, the new Poet Laureate, whom Charlie Rose interviewed on November 16,2008:
Great Thoughts
Great thoughts
do not nourish
small thoughts
as parents do children.
Like the eucalyptus,
they make the soil
beneath them barren.
Standing in a
grove of them
is hideous.
11/7/08
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4/24/2024 11:56:23 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Indeed, gershon, in a wilderness where thought aborts, grow horrors that are more insidious. can't imagine why says 'standing in a grove of them is hideous - a grove of great thoughts; nor why they make the soil beneath them barren, like the eukalyptus. I always thought great thoughts beget even greater thoughts, and the opposite of something profound is something else even more profound. Your write is so heartening, cheerful, fills the heart with lively mirth and hope; makes us humans spin in thoughtful abandon. (Have not read you for some time now, sorry about that)