Sophie’s Choice, as some of you may remember was an American film from the early 80s. Since then the term “Sophie’s Choice” has come to symbolize a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” standard of choice. It’s really the no-choice. As in the movie, Sophie must make the choice between her son living [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Existence’
My Grandmother Told Us Jokes
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Existence, Musings, Poems, Poignant on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
like the one about the man who walked down the street & turned into a drugstore. There was some secret in the moment of that turning—when he has one thing, became another— that I return to again & again. The day she stopped being grandma and turned into that madwoman. The day my sister stopped [...]
Maybe All This
Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged Existence, Poems on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe all this is happening in some lab? Under one lamp by day and billions by night? Maybe we’re experimental generations? Poured from one vial to the next, shaken in test tubes, not scrutinized by eyes alone, each of us separately plucked up by tweezers in the end? Or maybe it’s more like this: No [...]
The Question
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Existence, Poems, Poignant on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“We are what is missing from the world” ~Fernando Pessoa Some questions have no answer. Raised, they hang there in the mind Like open mouths, full of something missing. The great Portuguese poet, Pessoa, Said that the idea of happiness Is what makes men permanently sad. The body, imagining the soul, [...]
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