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Mateuš Conrad May 2016
only today i came across what interested Heidegger
after writing being and time, a selection
of essays, revealing that he came to be interested
in language - not knowing this, by mere study
of the introduction some things became apparent -
being quiet democratic in my reading it's a shame
i don't have the academic leisurely pace of becoming
a Heidegger specialist - it's the almost damnable
pulling-apart having to cite many influences and not
focusing on one, but since i don't have academic
leisure, the summary in the introduction
by jeffrey powell (editor) of the book heidegger
and language
will just have to do: apropos this
being an antidote to those bemoaning that we only
write about reading books, carefully choreographic
our lives for mints and espressos and ammoniac
(inhalants in a boxing ring nearing a knock-out) -
hide pretty bird, hide, hide pretty pretty bird
first your song inside a cage, then the cage inside
the heart, and thus the song with the cage,
silenced inside the cage, raging mad inside the heart.
well, the antidote is that i already have some ideas,
and reading the essays contained in this book would
put me off what i was intending to write about,
so, in summary, read the major work, then read introductions
of critical books from those studying the subject,
invent an original approach from that, and elsewhere.
before i venture into the whole affair of having to
reread certain passages from the introduction as to
guide me in this Bermuda Delta i what to do a little
sidewinder interlude:
in chemistry there are two major bonds (for the purpose
of what i'm intending, let us just assume that
we're only talking about π and σ bonds) -
and while psychology dehumanises man to strict
theories without clear proofs to a universal standard,
i want to do what will come later regarding Heidegger's
take on language, for me there's no clear philosophical
vocabulary to be used - i'm not into orthodoxy and
rigidity which says

                piquant sun strokes against
                the bargains of spring's last
                hope for a kept bazaar
                to bloom to then deflower
                petals from trees fall to earth
                like glasses, the tree stands
                as a reflection of shattered glass
                the petals remain the tree intact
                worn at the Royal Ascot
                or in a woman's hair.

obviously something like this is a poem - what i mean,
however, concerning what's identifiable as philosophy is
to me the following:  
                                        blah = monotone x algebraic
                                                    for­ non-differential
                                                    purposes, just filling up
                                                    the page

            blah blah blah blah blah blah subjectivity blah blah blah blah blah blah essentially blah blah blah blah blah blah in-itself blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah thing-external v. thing-internalised blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah metaphysics blah etc.
                      
                          and so on and so forth, a fixation on using a certain vocabulary to be equivalent or justification to be "apparently" talking philosophy... yet still no gain from the words of grammatical categorisation... for me? too many propositions, the basis of what the academic environment deems to be "pure" verbiage, or none (akin Wittgenstein) - that famous quote about a lion and having tea on Tuesday... or as Buddha would say: said so to shatter thus the fear of ketamine thoughtlessness;

but that's beside the point, i want to return to
how any chemist might treat psychology as a science,
keep it up to date, given that psychology likes
to shove its nose in everyday activities for a strict
expression of equivalent rubric that mathematics already
possesses and shoves into a child's brain to make
the child become accustomed to symbol encoding;
so π and σ bonds, let's say between two carbons atoms...
but in psychology we don't have the luxury of
many alternative examples...
me and language: to write in terms of optics,
to encode images rather than sounds,
language as optometry rather than a hearing-aid...
so what "elements" do we have in psychology,
essentially what defines consciousness, its sub-plot
and its unfamiliar territory - the using the dusty
Freudian units, we know the concept of the superman
(superman was a bad bad boy) from Nietzsche
evolved into the super mm hmm, and we know
there are two other units, mm hmm and the id /
it or that? it is for me, that is for scalpel for the analyst,
the prober, unlucky for the person who took to
objectifying himself, but better than being objectified -
still, remember i'm working with language in terms
of optics rather than phonetics - enough organic chemistry
diagrams and you will see that the bonding between
mm hmm, the super mm hmm and the gemini id
(one the patient, the second the analyst) trapped inside
an electron cloud of bio-electric processes is rigid and
stable due to the opposite of π and σ,
i chose the optic route using the bonds δ and ψ -
symbolically δ is the mathematical term for sum -
summation, the total of - currently i have no clue about
the significance of ψ just yet, but ψ is a symbol of
psychology like caduceus is the symbol of medicine;
a brief expansion on the natures of the bonds,
quack-science δ bonds being all alike meaning uniform
meaning holding every aspect uniformly, meaning
that a δ bond is of the same nature between mm hmm
and super mm hmm in a petri dish within the
solvent of the conscious sub-plot, likewise other variations
δ bonds are uniform bonds, i.e. ensuring one detail
is related to the other, and so to others.
ψ bonds, not much expansion here as promising detail,
asthma the highest research of breath, and all
major theoretical squeezing through the Suez -
depending on the measure of breaths, we can depend
on the internal things - but never so much Pamplona encierro
cleaning-up to do theorising an affirmative sound
like mm hmm, or other affirmative synonyms -
if it were can *****, it would be mince rather than
a clean dissection - mince meat, should mm hmm be
not an *****, let alone a body. so many attachments
to mm hmm these days, it should be attached to zoological
studies than activities of breathing: theory as a cage,
one after the over, eventually not even cages but
the caged animal turning into matryoshka doll -
Kant doesn't venture into the dynamic of his thing-in-itself
represented by the matryoshka as ad continuum -
maybe he does, but to me here merely pinpoints it,
coins the phrase noumenon and ensures the thing
is opened, god or nothing is put in it, the thing is
closed, locked and the key to unlocking it is thrown
away and never found (i'll mention a short process of
his argument some other time, most notably his
three impossibilities concerning proving the existence
of god: ontological, physico-theological and cosmological).
yes, i know, when reading these ****** books
i have to paint the arguments, i need to simplify
them, a poet reading a philosophy has to paint
the words - the best poetic technique applicable to
understanding philosophical books is imagery,
not as a technique of for the purpose of writing my own,
but as a way to paint what was written by some boffin -
precursor to understanding the three impossibilities
of proof, i find it strange that such proof is necessary,
what would you do with it? prove it once on
paper, or in your head, show it to everyone and then
slowly everyone is able, then the so called "man in
the sky" - it seems strange that scientific positivism
of the Enlightenment supposed such a proof, the proof
is more implausible than the existence - Bertrand...
just smoke your pipe and sit in the easy-chair talking
******* with Wittgenstein... more on that later.
i promised quotes from the above mentioned book
(heidegger and language)...

           das wort kommt zur sprache,
             das seyn bring sich zum wort.


working from phenomenology, to later reject it,
thus precipitating the school of deconstruction-ism,
and with Heidegger we do get to atomic elements
from words, from compounds, thank god there are
no sub-atomic ventures with language, quiet impossible
to de-construct language beyond this point,
let's face it, if you go as far as:
'as preparatory for raising the question of being...
language is one of three constituent moments in
the analysis of the being of the da in dasein (being there)'
furthered by equal atom bombardment replacing
the un-compounded sein (verb, be) with seyn (conjunction /
noun, being) - this is modern physics to my understanding,
i'm not particularly interested what he's saying,
i'm interested in painting what he's saying -
i'll spare you the details of what philosophical systematisation
is actually involved in: restricted vocabulary -
a certain limit is allowed, rigid meanings are involved,
rigidity of drilling in of non-deviation, philosophical
systems are not dishonest in that they are consistent with
a limited vocabulary - i will spare you the torture of
seeing one ball being juggled - the shrapnel of the English
language makes it even more distracting to understand,
as with the above, another e.g.?
'every saying of beyng is held in words and meanings
which are understandable in the view of everyday
references of beings, and are exclusively thought in
that view, but which as expressions of beyng,
are misunderstood...' of course i could be cherry picking
Heidegger like a Jehovah's witness cherry picking
the bible, but i'm not interested in what he's saying,
merely painting you the picture, to scale then:

books                      -              celestial objects
chapters                 -               cycles of celestial objects
paragraphs            -               prime features of
                                                 celestial objects
                                                 (e.g. Jupiter's red eye,
                                                  Saturn's ring,
                                                  Earth's oceans
                                                  and continents)
sentences                 -              
words                       -
syllables                   -
letters                        -             atoms / elements  
                                           ah, it was going oh so well,
i think i started too big, and went into too small,
which made visualising sentences and words and syllables
hard to compare what could fit between
Australia and and atoms of RuXe - by chance ruxe is
an actual word, no as stated ruthenium and xenon,
although that too, ruxir (ruxo, ruxin, ruxido) in Galician
meaning to roar.
brandon nagley Jul 2015
(Spanish tongue)

Soy la campesino querubín esclavo
En mía reina serpahim de amor-jaula.
Y incluso si ella fue a diere yo la llave
A descubrir mineself y ser gratis;
No habrías wanteth de todos modos es ,
Me encanta ser su sirviente ......
Me ama ser su esclavo .......


(English version)

I'm a peasant cherub slave
In mine queen serpahim's love-cage.
And even if she was to giveth me the key
To unlock mineself and be free;
I wouldst not wanteth it anyway's,
I love being her servant......
I loveth being her slave.......





©Brandon nagley
©Lonesome poet's poetry
KA Sep 2016
Mary, Bumby, Mousy, Rest of Gang...

Been thinking. Tough after all the electro-shock. But here goes.

What will Hemingway leave behind?  A few good books?  OK. That ought to be it for the obit. ‘He wrote a few good books.’  

Yes, there was the drinking and the hunting and the ******* and the fishing. And the talking about the drinking and the hunting and the ******* and the fishing. That was all good too. But that was for pal consumption. By invitation only.

Always hated the star part. Shy as a doe under this elephant hide. Only thing hated more than signing name on checks to the tax-man, signing it on dog-eared editions of The Sun Also Rises. But hating fame doesn't keep it away. Swat a fly, ten more appear.  

Do they read even the few good books anymore? Nope. Only people who read The Old Man And The Sea were thirty Swedish nitwits in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize for Nitwiterature.

So what has Hemingway left behind?  Well, this...

Every young punk with a Liberal Arts degree and a chinful of fuzz and his huevos bursting with juice, wants to be...Hemingway.

Two generations of them now. At least the one in the ‘30s had some politics, fought wars, fished fish, ****** ******. Knew how to read and shoot and drink and talk. A few even knew the back end of a bull from the front.

But this second one, these crew-cut corn-fed Eisenhower mommy-boys? Who’ve never seen a comrade shot dead at their side or an elk breaking cover at first light?  With their butts like the fenders of a ‘55 Chevy, unread paperbacks in the back-pockets of their chinos, babbling bits of Spanish to each other but never to Spaniards, the only hard muscle in their soft bodies that faithful drinking arm...  

They think all that is...being Hemingway.

In Havana, the Floridita was full of 'em. Couldn't go in there anymore. Key West the same. '59 encierro in Pamplona, punk comes up in the Txoko Bar, me talking quiet with Antonio after a good fight...  Wants me to drink from his **** bota.  Threw it in the street. Him after it. Can't go back there either. Won't be able to go anywhere soon.  World full of wanna-be Hemingways.

That’s all Hemingway’s really left behind. A bushy salt-and-pepper beard and an ever-faithful drinking arm.  

Time to check out, gang. A quick clean ****.

The sun also sets.

But here's the beauty part. Forty, fifty years from now, when all the wanna-be Hemingways are old and fat and their chin-fuzz is fried to bristle and their huevos are dried up like figs in a dusty street... But they still want to do it all like Hemingway...

They'll have to eat a shotgun too.

Adios.

-Hemingway
Kiara del Valle Aug 2014
Viendo fotografías tuyas, descubrí senderos que se me olvidaron existían

Observando tus fotografías, descubrí que siempre fuiste a un paso acelerado

y en mi encierro,

perdí tu silueta, perdí los sentidos… perdí el paso

Unidas bajo el sello de un primer amor nos hicimos de ideas que iban más allá de nuestras manos

Y por un momento estuvimos en el mismo plano.

Viendo tus fotografías, vi paisajes que solo puedo ver en momentos encerrados

Observando bien las fotografías, pude notar como el tiempo te ha tratado

Tus fotografías me hablan

y yo les hablo a ellas,

les digo todo lo que en mi boca se deshace cuando mis sentidos te sienten cerca

Lo suficientemente cerca…

Observando fotografías tuyas, quise imaginarme en cada una de ellas,

pero vas demasiado rápido,

yo sigo haciendo de los errores el especial del día,

y sigo perdiendo el paso

No te puedo detener,

No tengo control

y de toda esta aventura, eso de ti me fascina

No quiero detenerte,

Quiero por un momento eterno alcanzarte

y en la misma página del libro de la vida encontrarte

Después de todo, ¿quien puede detener el mar?
Me das tu cuerpo patria y yo te doy mi río
tú noches de tu aroma / yo mis viejos acechos
tú sangre de tus labios / yo manos de alfarero
tú el césped de tu vértice / yo mi pobre ciprés

me das tu corazón ese verdugo
y yo te doy mi calma esa mentira
tú el vuelo de tus ojos / yo mi raíz al sol
tú la piel de tu tacto / yo mi tacto en tu piel

me das tu amanecida y yo te doy mi ángelus
tú me abres tus enigmas / yo te encierro en mi azar
me expulsas de tu olvido / yo nunca te he olvidado
te vas te vas te vienes / me voy me voy te espero.
Madres desventuradas, pobres madres en duelo,
Vuestros gritos de angustia los oye siempre el cielo.
Dios, que guía en los aires al pájaro perdido,
A una misma paloma conduce a un mismo nido.
Madres desventuradas, ¡oh madres sin fortuna,
Siempre se comunican el sepulcro y la cuna!...
¡Cuántos secretos guarda la Eternidad sombría!

La madre cuya historia voy a narrar vivía
En Blois, su hogar quedaba contiguo a nuestra casa;
Lo que Dios da o permite lo tenía sin tasa;
Se casó con el hombre a quien amó rendida,
Y un hijo tuvo: el goce más grande de su vida.

La cuna parecía, bajo un blanco cendal,
Nido de encaje y seda, junto al lecho nupcial.
De noche, a ¡cuántos dulces ensueños se entreabría
Su corazón de madre, y cuál resplandecía
Su mirada en la sombra, cuando ahogando el aliento,
Sin sueño, y en la cuna clavado el pensamiento,
Incorporada oía, con maternal cariño,
La serena y tranquila respiración del niño!

Feliz, al verse madre, cantaba a toda hora;
Su vida, por lo alegre, semejaba una aurora.

Sentado en sus rodillas bajo el materno arrullo,
«¡Ángel mío!», decíale, loca de amor y orgullo;

Mil nombres inventaba para llamarlo, cuanto

Se inventa para un hijo: «¡Tesoro, luz, encanto!»

Lo alzaba, lo ponía sobre el seno. Después
Le devoraba a besos los sonrosados pies,
Tanta dicha en la tierra sueño le parecía...
Con sonrisa de ángel el niño sonreía.

Frágil trémulo, como cervatillo a que espanta
El ruido de una hoja que la brisa levanta,
Crecía, Para el niño crecer es vacilar.
Dio los primeros pasos. Después empezó a hablar,
Tres años tuvo, gárrula edad en que locuela,
La palabra, como ave, las alas bate y vuela.


«Hijo mío», decía con inefable goce;

«¡Cuán grande está, miradlo! Ya las letras conoce;
Pide vestidos de hombre. Ya no quiere el muy pillo
Ni dulces, ni juguetes, ni ropas de chiquillo.
Son el diablo estos niños de ahora. ¡Cómo aprenden!
¡Si todo lo adivinan, si todo ya lo entienden!
El mío irá muy lejos. Será hermoso su sino,
¡Y al correr de los años sabrá abrirse
camino!»
Y al mirarlo con ojos de orgullo y de pasión
Latir sentía en su hijo su propio corazón.

Un día -¡de esas fechas fúnebres quién no tiene!-
El crup, horrible buitre de las sombras, que viene
Siempre a traición, el vuelo para sobre ese techo
Que cubría tres seres felices; en acecho
Espera al niño; rápido cae sobre él; lo agarra,
Y en la garganta frágil hinca la artera garra.

Si acaso no habéis visto la horrorosa agonía
De esos pobres pequeños, de la tierra alegría,
No sabéis de amarguras, ni del dolor que mata.
Luchan y se retuercen bajo el nudo que ata
Sus gargantas; la sombra les invade los ojos
Que sin vida se mueven entre círculos rojos;
El aliento les falta... Se siente angustia y frío...
¿Por qué los niños sufren y uno vive, Dios mío?
Y surge de sus labios tan extraño extertor,
Tan triste y misterioso, que el alma con pavor
Parece oír en esos angustiosos quejidos
Del cuervo del sepulcro los fúnebres graznidos.

Silenciosa, furtiva, la Muerte entra a la alcoba,
Y de ese hogar la dicha como ladrón se roba.

Un padre y una madre de hinojos ante el lecho;
Lágrimas y sollozos que desgarran el pecho,
E impasible ante tanto dolor el infinito...
¡Oh, la palabra expira donde comienza el grito!

Con el alma transida por el dolor, la madre,
En tanto que a su lado lloraba el pobre padre,
Tres meses duró inmóvil, con aspecto sombrío,
Y los ojos clavados en el lecho vacío.

Triste, febril, sin fuerzas, a nadie respondía;
Y a veces en voz baja repetir se le oía
-Los labios temblorosos y el pensamiento fijo-
Como hablando con alguien: «¡Devuélveme a mi hijo!»


El médico, entretanto, viendo dolor tan hondo,
Tanta amargura, al padre decía: «No respondo

De su salud si sigue tan triste y silenciosa;
Es fuerza distraerla, que piense en otra cosa,
Que salga de su encierro».

Pasó el tiempo. Y un día
Volvió a sentirse madre.
Junto a la cuna fría

De aquel ángel efímero recordando el acento,
Sola, muda, dejaba vagar el pensamiento.

Y el día en que de pronto sintió la sacudida
De un ser en sus entrañas, nuncio de amor y vida,
Palideció. «¿Quién llama?
¿Quién viene de otro Mundo?»

Dijo con hondo acento de un gran dolor profundo;
Y en lágrimas de fuego bañadas las mejillas,
Y ante la cuna sola postrada de rodillas:
«¡No... no quiero! clamaba, «porque tendrías celos»

«Tú, mi ángel dormido, que todos los anhelos
Te llevaste y los sueños de mis felices días»;

«Ya otro ocupa mi puesto», sollozando dirías;

«Mi madre lo ama, ríe... lo besa, y yo entretanto
Sin el calor de un beso duermo en el Camposanto,
Olvidado de todos, tiritando de frío...»

«No, nunca!...»

Así lloraba ese dolor sombrío.
Y por la vez segunda se vio madre. Dichoso
Dijo el padre: Es un niño. «¡Cuan rollizo y hermoso!»

Pero ella continuaba llorosa y abatida,
Y en el recuerdo antiguo de su amor abstraída.
Y al acercarle el niño, pensando en el ausente,
En el que fué en su cielo ráfaga refulgente,
Como en delirio trata de incorporarse, y mustia,
«¡Ese ángel está solo!», dice con honda angustia.

Mas de pronto, ¡oh milagro!, con aquel conocido
Acento que no olvida, oye al recién nacido
Que cerca de su seno, y en la sombra callada,
Murmura: «¡Soy el mismo, pero no digas nada!»
Si grande ser deseas, erige en alta cumbre
Tu fortaleza, y hazla para ti solamente...
Que a sus muros no pueda llegar la muchedumbre,
Que se alce inaccesible sobre la roca ingente.

Álzala en el orgullo de la cima inviolada,
En las rutas azules del águila y del trueno,
Reina de mármol blanco que mira a la hondonada,
Albo lirio de piedra sobre el azul sereno.

Que fulgure tan lejos en la roca bravía,
Tan lejos, que los hombres, absortos en su anhelo,
Crean mirar un nuevo resplandor en el día,
y no sepan si viene de la tierra o del cielo.

Haz tú solo el santuario de tu alma, el santuario
Donde la luz empieza, donde la sombra acaba;
y para que florezca tu ensueño solitario,
Esta palabra mágica: «YO», sobre el muro graba.

Después, duros cerrojos echa sobre la vida,
Aíslate y la puerta cierra al viento que pasa,
y si el techo te ahoga, busca al cielo salida
Para que venga el alma del cielo hasta tu casa.

Y allí en lo más recóndito de tu mansión secreta,
Altar de hierro y oro para tu fe levanta,
y ante ese altar, adora tu ideal de poeta,
y con tu vida a solas y con tu Ensueño, canta.

Canta el amor sagrado que tus entrañas quema;
Canta para que arrulles tu alma en la luz absorta,
Canta para los astros radiosos tu poema,
y si los hombres no oyen tus himnos, ¡nada importa!

Solo, divinamente solitario en tu encierro...
La soledad es fuerza y el mayor de los bienes,
Es el vuelo del alma que sube del destierro,
El umbral encontrado de perdidos Edenes.

Sólo una patria es tuya sobre el mundo: ¡tú mismo!
Canta, y cuando tu espíritu se hunda en la eterna calma,
Lleva el supremo orgullo, de la muerte al abismo,
De que vivir supiste la vida de tu alma.
Contento estoy con este cuarto humilde
de ventana a la calle y puerta al patio.
Acabo de almorzar, en él me encierro
Y en su cama me tiro largo a largo.

El campo duerme y hay silencio en casa,
tal vez chilla un molino o canta un gallo.
Mi cuarto fresco está y envuelto en sombras,
dejo tan sólo entrar un débil rayo.

Doblo la almohada, mi costumbre vieja,
echo mano al estante, un libro bajo:
Berceo, o Ruiz, o Rojas, o Cervantes,
fluyen, para mí solo, largo rato.

Cáeseme el libro, descabezo un sueño,
se abre una puerta, suenan unos pasos,
y una mujer morena se aparece
con un mate dorado en una mano.

— The End —