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Experience
Experience Experience is simply this; A preparation for some future state, However broad or narrow be its scope. We pass from grade to grade, as when in school — Learning a little more each period We spend on varied subjects in […]
Visionary Dawn
Visionary Dawn Know that those Principles you mourn, (dark-robed, Facing that Blankness where they were interred — Battered and mangled by traumatic wars And social dissolution — those long years Ago), cannot be recovered from […]
Reality and Dreams
Reality and Dreams In normal lives realities and dreams are mixed And, through their interactions, memories are fixed. Most happiness is transient and brief; Troubles both follow and precede relief […]
Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings Larch trees, (I did not know this fact before!), Change colour in the Autumn since they are Deciduous conifers. It’s very strange How something I had thought for years — that all Pines are true evergreens — should be disproved By […]
Zamenhof's Esperanto (1887)
Zamenhof’s Esperanto (1887) “Esperanto estas plej bona lingvo por kompreneco internacia“ (“Esperanto is the best language for international understanding”). […]
Life's Mirror
Life’s Mirror Our future is only our past Reflected, as though in a glass But made mysterious by Time’s Refractions through vague surface-dross That mars its lustre and distorts The details of its imaged shapes. When […]
Happiness
Happiness If happiness were perfect on this Earth, How dreadful It would be!. For surely we would find, As we approached The closure f our lives, That death would be […]
Quantum Theory
Quantum Theory (After reading Other Worlds by Paul Davies) My mind seems cosmologically large Because all things I see — or touch, or hear, Or merely sense — become absorbed by me. The world, its […]
Roots
Roots What though life’s troubles storm about my head; Though highest hopes are dashed down, time on time; That rare-wrought compositions are derided And richest of confections judged as chyme?. […]