Thursday, August 12, 2010

Poem for Today




THE SEARCH


... alone with an inscrutable society.
- Virginia Woolf




Where does one look for the meaning of being
Apart from the life of the crowd?
The crowd with its shuffle
And bustle and people, whose trivial talking
Explains not one iota of what you need to know?

How does one know what is really important,
When cascading cacophonies of high-minded
Poseurs prevent you from sifting through cant
And through rhetoric; thus leaving you no way to grow?

Will growing and knowing enable the process
Of discovering all that is hidden beneath each and every
Accident comprising our world?
For there is the source, the location of meaning
And with it the being that makes this world go.

from Word Poems, January, 1992

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