Sunday, May 19, 2024

A LOOKING AT, WITHIN (1840)

Guardian, custodian, teacher:

Another damned tutor to get past

Before the intuition.

 

        - De Quncey's "estrangement from Wordsworth" attributed to the latter's

           pride, arrogance, and rudeness - 

                "the whole theory of picturesque beauty"

agitating the taxed cognition

 

                    *

 

Vanished thoughts resist retrieval,

the pitch of words

No more.

 

"Seen from within"

             "Contemplated"

 

each new thought

            lobbed

                    a volley of cannonballs

                                                My Way

                              (the fort's re-enactment)

                                   patrolled

 

"to perceive directly without reasoning, know by immediate perception"

 

a paradigm    

        ghosts    

                tossed about     on lake waves    

 

                    *

 

Follow the breath                further out                than can be watched

            Sit        w/the feeling of finished "to do"

 

Intimation

            Admonishment

Done

 

                        for Romance you shall quest

 

                     *

 

The child never "safe, safe and sound, healthy"

            Left alone        (toying) with hand-me-downs

                        Needs    himself        "to be strong"


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