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Date Posted: 13:02:52 09/13/02 Fri
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheM07b.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.194.17
Subject: Re: Poem U
In reply to: Gray 's message, "Re: Poem U" on 12:54:57 09/13/02 Fri

Well I find philosophy a compulsive subject, I adored reading some of the French philosopher's work but too much thought made me depressed so now I try to only think a little *grin*. However, I do like it when poems make me do more than just read them and engage the grey matter.

Keep them coming.

Raphaela

>I haven't studied much philosophy lately, not in any
>literary sense, I mean, not deliberately... Not the
>classic philosophers or anybody, etc... Though I did
>once, books on tape, actually... Free the inalienable
>weapons Heston did a lot of the reading... Though I
>can't shake a personal interest, particularly in
>logic. (?) Whatever, I know what you mean... for
>example: What is one's "own good"?
>
>I don't know.
>
>>Quite the philosopher! Reminds me of the days when I
>>studied philosophy and thought too much for my own
>>good.
>>
>>I like the way this makes the reader think though and
>>interpret in our own individual ways. The use of
>>'you' engages the reader to do this even though a
>>different 'you' was in mind.
>>
>>Raphaela
>>
>>
>>
>>>Poem U
>>>
>>>If you force the leaves
>>>Of a palm to separate,
>>>You kill the tree.
>>>Is that true?
>>>
>>>Anyway, you just go on
>>>Doing whatever it was
>>>You were doing...
>>>
>>>I was just sitting here
>>>Thinking about writing
>>>You.
>>>
>>>-Gray Squirrel

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