Ah but I can 'think' my way into so much and 'do' so little.
That's the analysis paralysis which I try to avoid. Understanding isn't 'enough'. What I do with the understanding makes for the whole experience, otherwise it's only 'thinking' and not 'experiencing'.
I've been known to go to extremes to avoid a new experience. Some moments I STILL prefer being 'right' MORE than I prefer a different experience. Silly ME! Oh how we can all cheat ourselves, eh?
My best 'understanding' will alter once I experience and don't just 'think'.
And believe it or not....my 'understanding' MOSTLY leaves me with a sense of peace. Even if my 'understanding' is "You don't get to 'understand'...you get to accept."
*chuckling* Now run THAT in the circle we've created! LOL
Thank you for coming to look at my poetry - You will see very quickly that my poetry doesn't conform to any of the traditionlly accepted styles of verse and if you happen to find a poem that does, well it must be down to pure coincidence!
My poems are built on my thoughts, dreams, memories and experiencesof this life, scribbled down primarily for myself, as part of a lifetime search to find outwhat I am, where I am, and what the hell I'm here for.
I believe that wordsare very inadequate tools we have developed for summarising and communicating the much more complicated images and emotionswe experience in our lives. After all, wordsare at best merely a pencil sketch of the image or emotion we associate with them.
When I write my poetry I am sometimes just using several words to describe that image, or emotion in greater detail,
The main themes that my poetry is exploring (philosophically) are;
The relationship between ourselves and our chemical , visual and physical environment
Our origins
The true nature of our collective conciousness (God)
The emotions we experience
Our control over our behaviour
Our relationships with one another
Key elements of the descriptions of things we visually experience and how we remember them.
Their content comes from every conceivable direction of perception and you may for that reason alone find some of them contradicting one another.
But then is that not life? - You have to look at the whole picture - and sometimes beyond the whole picture.
For that reason you may read any one of my poems and take away a totally different understanding of it than that I intended - or you may not understand them at all.
That is entirely down to your own understanding of the images my words are conveying to you.
I do hope however that you can find at least one moment of significance amongst them if you do have the inclination to read them.
I would ask that if you do read them however that you remember just one very important thing - they were all written to myself, to help me remember my thoughts at the time I wrote them, no more than that.
I hope you enjoy them and come back again and I would like to say that I am always happy to answer any questions you may have about my poetry.
Egal Bohen..
If you like you can also read my poetry on Poemhunter at:
Just an ordinary man experiencing life and trying to work out what its all about, wanting not to upset anyone in the process, wanting to help where he can, wanting to listen when he needs to and above all wanting to learn. So if after reading my poetry you can help me - here I am
11 comments:
Indeed.
Beautiful poems, Egal...... truly beautiful.
Thanks dash
Egal..
:-)
Perhaps for the world.
Why is it the simple ones that really make me think.
And I did like the one above on thinking....which is something I indulge in too often. ;-)
Tanks Mel..
I agree
"for the world"... "on the world"
"for others", perhaps even in the long run "for ourselves"...we just have to use it don't we
BTW I'm still "here" thinking about over "there" when I'm not thinking about here!
Egal..
LOL
Just goes to show ya that thinking isn't an all bad thing.
Though.....moderation would be good.
I can think myself into analysis paralysis.
Here's good, there's good--it's all good!
Mel,
Bring it on!
Analysis -v- Paralysis
No contest!
(You see... I am well and truly afflicted with this incurable
desire for understanding!)
Egal..
Ah but I can 'think' my way into so much and 'do' so little.
That's the analysis paralysis which I try to avoid.
Understanding isn't 'enough'.
What I do with the understanding makes for the whole experience, otherwise it's only 'thinking' and not 'experiencing'.
I've been known to go to extremes to avoid a new experience.
Some moments I STILL prefer being 'right' MORE than I prefer a different experience.
Silly ME!
Oh how we can all cheat ourselves, eh?
Mel
All sehr interesting!!...
Doing can lead to understanding visout any thinking....m'mm
but zen........
Thinking can lead to understanding visout any doing...m'mm
Zo Vot does understanding lead to?
m'mm...probably being certified insane!
Egal...
*shrugs*
My best 'understanding' will alter once I experience and don't just 'think'.
And believe it or not....my 'understanding' MOSTLY leaves me with a sense of peace.
Even if my 'understanding' is "You don't get to 'understand'...you get to accept."
*chuckling*
Now run THAT in the circle we've created! LOL
sometimes I think that would be a reasonable end result (being certified)
(not you, me I mean)
When you don't know what to do understanding doesn't come into it anyway - it's down to following your instincts
So Mel is it now
understanding versus instinct
i,ltv
You are a genius
Egal..
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