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WOMAN...LIGHT...SMILE

                                                     SUN

The woman smiled,enhancing the crescent of sun

Cascading through her hair

A waterfall of rainbows

To fall upon his adoring brow.

                                 CANDLE

The candle flickers,illuminating your smile

but can do little for your sparkling eyes,

which always were infinity.

                                  

ERNEST BECKER "The Denial of death"

Dependency is the basic survival mechanism of the human organism.....When the adult gives up hope in his ability to cope and sees himself incapable of either fleeing or fighting,he(she) is reduced to a state of depression.the very stripping of one`s defenses becomes a form of defensive maneuver!!

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility,especially when the choice comes too late in life for one to be able to start over again.The depressed person exaggerates his guilt because it unblocks his dilemma in the safest and easiest way.He controls others and heightens his own personality by his very self-pity and self-hatred.All these things,then, make OBSESSIVE GUILT prominent in the depression syndrome.

from Ernest Becker   "The Denial of Death"

ESSAY ON NIETZCHE

Nietzche looks at man through murky waters.He defends his renunciation of God by pointing out to us the evil in organized Western religions,in effect condemning God because of man`s shortcomings.He scoffs at all philosphers who came before him because all made the same fatal mistake,accepting the supposition that what is moral and ethical is known to man.Nietzche condemns all "a prioris";nothing is given.It is just that man before him has not had the courage to go this far. Man has sacrificed his courage and freedom to such "a prioris".The question of the chicken and the egg,resolved by many,beginning with Aristotle,in favor of the chicken,is a universal not to be solved but to be scoffed at.Man`s destiny is resolved by man,not by final cause.At best causality is unanswerable and man should no longer waste his time on unanswerable questions. At worst,the question is stagnation and directly attributable to man`s fear of being responsible for his existence.

For Nietzche,the basis for human existence is will to power and the means for self-fulfillment is personal courage. The over-man,the future man who will accept his destiny [and Nietzche believed he was a precursor,"A Stranger In A Strange Land"] will show concern for his fellow man but from a position of power and self confidence. It is Nietzche`s belief that the "love for fellow man" so universally accepted as a basic pattern necessity of life is merely a projection of man`s fear of being hurt. He postulates a distinct difference between such morbid self-protection and that concern shown by the "over-man". Although he goes to great lengths to contradict this feeling,it seems to the writer that,except for the honest respect given to others who live life according to his principles,Nietzche translates his concern to all others as pity. [Since Nietzche believes that pity is an emotion not worthy of the lowest animal,we may get an inkling of his view towards those of the human species who do not share his view of life.] Such a position,of course,is also strikingly similar to the "we are right" communality expressed by members of Western organized religions,one of the cores which he so mercilessly attacked.                 

Vincent T. Deabler,Ph.D.

POEM "To Kierkegaard"

The demon takes so many forms

shapeless,murky,indistinct

That troubled minds react and run

and therefore mold its grisly shape.......

Clothed in fear of solitude

the demon smirks and smotes

and colors all horizons past

as failure,loss, and endlessness....

The mind obsesses........then denies

looking for its trump

"Aha"he says,"the body hurts",

but then the pain is gone!....

[..............at least for now.]

I know I must identify and strip away the robes

of such a heartless,mindless tool

of those who wish to do me harm.......

Projection fails,all bastions gone

the mind climbs on the demon`s steed

to see where it will lead......

Looking down,it sees some words imprinted on the bridle.

"TO BE SHARED BY ALL WHO WISH TO SEE

MY NAME IS

                F E A R  A N D  T R E M B L I N G  "

 

Dali`s Sketch of Freud

POEM "Sadness"

I`m getting kind of feelin` bad

Living in a world

of darkened greys

and muted fantasy.

I would like to make

a pilgrimage to color.

my world seems to be

embalmed.

Tho packed for the journey

I have no map,

I know no pirates,

And travel agencies

would think me strange.

POEM "To Freud"

Penis envy

Masculine definition of womanhood,

Viennese scholar

mystified by she,

unable to penetrate her emotions

or his own.

Better he should define man

as penis aching.

Poem "STAR TRIP [to Dylan]

Looking down, or posing?                                                                                        

The multi-colored beams

From artificial stars

Denied the truth. 

He needn`t talk or smile

just strum and sing,

A turning glance to share the Band.

But that`s enough

for those who walked a kindred path

and shared the pain and strain but not the fame.

[And therefore really not the pain]

First Painting

Poem " GALLERY " Part 2

Time slows and stops

then reverses, as mental pictures

    [the portraits I draw best]

Burst upon the scene,

are hung with care,,,,           and gazed upon

in the privacy of my gallery

Poem " GALLERY " Part 1

Sitting in a cold,dreary office

a desk piled with work present past and future,

as life`s seconds tick endlessly onward

My mind returns to you.