Quotes and Sayings - Romantic Intellectuality in the desert

ROMANTIC INTELLECTUALITY IN THE DESERT

Desertification is happening in my semi-arid peninsulas;
As intellectuality erodes into lush romance.
A coin is being flipped
And probabilities are turning to heads always.

The coins seems to be fixed.
Intellectuality fixes the coins;
While romance stands helpless.
In its lake of reality.

The boots of the intellectual fighters;
Are sharp and resistant to the heat.
Romance offers only the rush
Of a chemical cocktail as weapon.

The truth is so sharp
That no side can doubt its clarity.
Romance will never win, neither will opposer.
An imaginary solution exsits.

This solution is in our future.

January 2000,

Hello,

I read with interest your words, and would like to know if you have heard
of Thomas Beddoes?

I read something he wrote many many years ago. I shall quote it as I
remember it:

Nature is polluted
There is man in every secret corner of her
doing damned wicked deeds
You are oh world
a hoary murdering atheistic star

Along the lines of what you feel, don't you think?

Again, I enjoyed your words

Mae

Comments about this poem:

From Mae Barrena:

I love the desert! I've watched the English Patient 33 times. I love
the people of the Kalahari. I have several books by Laurens Van Der
Post.

I think one has romance in the desert:

To walk on her carpet and not wake her is bliss
To feel her hot breath in the day and cold breath at night is fulfilling
To dig into her and find sustenance is rewarding
To leave her is to dry up and crumple like the flowers in her hair...

MaE

PS the flipping of the coins reminds me of the skit in the movie
Rosencranz and Gildenstern are dead. Great flick.

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