Knowing Ignorance Poem by sreelekha premjit

Knowing Ignorance



Upon the shore
she sat
a bumbling idiot

she does not know the waves
nor the waters
nor the depth
yet she sits
and pretends to think
believes to know
assumes to understand

the pretension of knowledge
the pride of acquaintance
with a Marquez, with a Vijayan, with a Maya Angelou

blinds the eye to ignorance
and they say ignorance is bliss
it is truly...
provided you know you are ignorant.

Saturday, September 28, 2013
Topic(s) of this poem: self
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upon the death of Ghanian Poet Kofi Awonoor- there's much that we don't know
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