He argues in vain who argues without means.

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Philosophy In My Mind

That idea in my mind is indispensable,
Thoughts conquer another man’s philosophy,
The ideal way of life contrives justice and scholarship.
May we tread in these puddles of knowledge,
Must we stammer, resolve or curse when hitting solutions?
The problems are bred by innocent helpers,
A penny spent excuses our anatomy,
And prison sells its shadow on us.
The idea, the idea will flow with rushing ones,
Philosophy argues and argues spectacularly.

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Only a fool argues with the cook.

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Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

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One’s Crime

One argues over the statements of time,
Many act with centuries of crime;
But when buried are the young and old,
We cry and liven to see the odd be controlled.

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To judge is to feel above.

To deliver judgment is a pleasure.
One does it when one elects or selects
Argues or debates, opines or advices
Or in all criticisms and gossips.
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Those Who Pack Malice

I don't carry malice.
But I am familiar,
With the burden of it.

And those who pack malice,
As a means to unload if from themselves...
To others unsuspecting.
Would be wise to rid themselves of the notion,
That an unpacking of malice...
To place upon another's shoulders,
Would be done without a suffering to them that comes.

I don't carry malice.
But I am familiar,
With the burden of it.
And it is not worth being committed,
To a life of mental pain.

I was blessed to become remorseful,
Before carrying out the deed.
But I have witnessed the devastation,
Of what a malice inflicted can leave.

It is best to correct and reverse one's steps.
With a comprehension...
One accepts and not argues.
Malice to inflict revenge as a means to victimize,
Has its surprising consequences...
For one unsuspecting who does the venomizing,
To pay!

And the picture isn't pretty.

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Erudition And Despair

Erudition and despair,
thriving symbiotically,
synergistically, a pair
devoid of what, erotically,
might seize the readers by the guts,
consume in their banality
and soi disant finality
my work with ifs and ans and buts.

All my insights merely heightened
awareness of how incomplete
were my attempts be enlightened,
seeking goals I could not meet.
If were not so erudite,
perhaps I could give up despair,
but though God’s great, and always right,
that doesn’t mean He must be fair.


Richard Bernstein, reviewing Lyndall Gordon's 'T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life' (W. W. Norton) ('Portrait of a Visionary In a Heap of Broken Images, ' the NYT, August 18,1999) writes:

'Unlike the artist, Eliot does not criticize an actual world but creates a 'phantasmal' world of lust, filth, boredom and malice on which he gazes in fascinated horror, ' she writes. Ms. Gordon also argues that the work has largely been misread. Critics have 'fastened on his despair and erudition, ' she argues, and in so doing they have missed the 'visionary alternative' that Eliot presented in the poem, the 'possibility of regeneration'.

8/18/99,1/19/09

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A Flower Story...

when you are inside a very tight bud
if you do not compromise with the night
the choking sepal becomes painful
the receptacle argues with the peduncle
on the matter of an overstaying stigma

nature rules and at dawn you have to bloom
on a lesser risk towards ecstatic pleasures

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Those Good Works

it is the good decision
the countryside
those works and not the words
the silence and not
the fight
the arms that embrace
not the mouth
that argues
it is not a question actually of
winning or losing
it is the making of the bridge
between you
and them
no one says who triumphs
when the good is
finally done

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Arguments.

Some people argues, just to have the last input,
They are in reality frustrated control freaks with a bad root.
They want to push others off the highway,
Or tell off someone with words they say.

They think they are smart & everybody else is stupid,
In the reality they are the invalid.
They have low self esteem with a proud, ignorant mind,
Instead of learning they are rude and blind.

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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

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The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

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Emily Dickinson

Like her the Saints retire

60

Like her the Saints retire,
In their Chapeaux of fire,
Martial as she!

Like her the Evenings steal
Purple and Cochineal
After the Day!

"Departed"—both&mdash ;they say!
i.e. gathered away,
Not found,

Argues the Aster still—
Reasons the Daffodil
Profound!

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Murder

He was sentenced to life
Murder, they said
In a fit of jealous rage
and blind anger
Finding wife
getting dirty
Not keeping
hoeing
to garden work

As the couple
next door
argues loudly,
I remind
myself
never to
contemplate
murder
for
MY life's
transgressions
affronts
or
injustices
but only
take lives
for
prophets or
profit

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There Are Times When The Sun Does Not Shine

who argues
about the rainy days
when the sun
does not shine
like a child hiding
on the skirt
of her mother

who disputes
lean times
and hungry days
when we simply
bite our tongue
swallow our saliva
and say we
just had lunch

when this happens
we can do nothing
we let all these times
come and then wait
when they finally leave

for like the sun that
does not shine today
tomorrow it may come
and shine again so brightly!

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Nonexistence

Nonexistence flows from what is unpronounced,
the dried source of a watershed,
cisternal spaces in the head,
the prey at which no cat has pounced.


Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviews 'For Common things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today' (Alfred A. Knopf) by the 25 year old West Virginian, Jedediah Purdy. Purdy argues that irony such as that personified by Jerry Seinfeld, harms 'common things, ' by which he means all that is public, shared and ordinary. Thomas Carlyle wrote in 'Sartor Resartus': 'An ironic man, with his sly stillness and ambuscading ways, may be viewed as a pest to society.' The epigraph to his book comes from Czeslaw Milosz: 'What is unpronounced tends to nonexistence.'


9/9/99

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Do our parents really every die?

Do we try to console a babies cry
Do we learn from our mistakes in life
Do we laugh and cry at humor and emotional instability
Do we stand tall in trouble, pain and protecting a young one's fall
Do we work for stability and tranquillity
Do we play for relief from an argues day
Do we hope and dream in scenes of reality
Do we speak, say and act in ways we vowed to retract
Do we live in hopes of bettering our predecessor’s way of family healing.

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If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation.

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The Diver

The diver supremely inquired into speed,
One rocks faster than the diver himself.
A little planet erupts from the cosmos,
As the pledge has surpassed all quarrel.
The blamed matter argues further to enlighten
Those men and women of the diver's strength.
The dived one can ask the sea, and water in general -
Such questions are reasonable for the pleasure.

A little sea and a little ocean masters us well,
Then the divinity of water ensues,
You relax due to light and darkness
Of the very deep matters.

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When You Wake Up

When you wake up
Walk with God,
Desire to love God,
Desire to live and know God

When you wake up
Exalt yourself not,
Not against God,
God, the all knowing God.

When you wake up,
Be not like,
King Nebuchadnezzar,
King driven out, of his kingdom.

When you wake up
Be not foolish
Foolish is he that
He that, argues with God.

When you wake up,
Desire to know,
To know the only way,
TO, The throne of God
Is through repentance

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