Springing Forth Poem by Daniel Brick
Springing Forth
These are such narrow channels we must
negotiate as our craft comes to rest
in its safe harbor. All passion spent,
we can walk away from bodies of water
that would otherwise hold us hostage
to desires large and small, as one longing
dissolves into another. Oh, the solvency
of water may make this present desire
disappear, but from it springs forth
another desire, and yet another. What if
all of these small desires coalesce
into one giant Desire, and it challenges
the Nature of Things? I have done my part
to prevent this. I have established the Law
of Things. You approved these principles:
"Desire and Death are Siblings, " "Desire
pretends to be the Future, but it's always
the cold dead Past, " "Desire dazzles you
with sudden illumination, in a realm of
Darkness, " "D e s i r e - See how it
vanishes into the neighboring nothingness."
Fix these principles into the currents of
everybody's brain, let deep ruts in the brain's
mental channels stall speed-of-light thoughts,
starve the Mind of necessity and pleasure,
dim the urge to know, abolish the light of
conscience, fall into drunken sleep.
It should be easy to eliminate higher
categories of being: Just deny the reality
of Soul, argue we are not soulful creatures,
laugh as your soul withers and dies. Boy,
think of the weight you won't have to carry!
hey, daniel! glad to see a new posting from you. i find this poem interesting to read, am sure, i think, of what you're communicating in the second stanza, but unsure of the first. with it the opening to " the wasteland" comes to mind and the second of the four noble truths. i'm convinced desire per se is neutral, that its objects distinguish it as bad or good for us. hoping you're well in all ways, glen
Body is also a shelter for a soul not just a burden. All comes in the right time. I wish you good health and your body to be a good servant for you!
you sir have brilliantly translated the stages of life and expressly stated desire has no end it lives on till the rieveira does end then no further life must final find a bend to end
Do the quotes come from another piece you’re referencing? Or are they a stand-alone pillar of principle specific to this poem? I try in earnest to subscribe to the philosophy of logic you detail in this piece. But it seems, often at the most inconvenient times, I fail to live by it
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Hi Daniel, Desire is many times similar to having high hopes. Many times these dreams never reach reality. Nonetheless the twist of a whim may bring serendipity. Deposing of the natural flow of the soul was never something I have tried because being true to your soul always brings wonders. Wonderfully written, Paul