The need to be heroic
in all our small ways,
demands our attention
and creates our journals.
The most banal of entries,
the most extraordinary,
are equally
paeans to immortality.
V
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- Philly `burbs, Pennsylvania, United States
- All characterological defenses, fetishes and addictions are life-limiting attempts to fulfill personal strivings for creative heroism in service to the denial of death anxiety. V T Deabler, 2008 c2005-2006 All Rights Reserved
9 comments:
Cool, cool poem ... reminds me of the butterfly one ... the same quality of a great, great artist ... Yo V!!! Keep that pen 'o yours to paper or keyboard!!!
I never thought about journalling this way, but it's true.
Aint that the truth V! ~Sooz
great poem.
kathy
Vince, I love your poem. In this, I think, is where I differ from many of my university colleagues. I agree with you that even the most mundane entry is indeed heroic. I'm sorry to say that there is a lot of snobbery in the academic world regarding others' writings. I see a lot of people struggling with their ideas, struggling to get them down, to make sense of them, to connect with others. I do see this as a heroic struggle. I think of Joseph Campbell's admonition in "Power of Myth"--"Who are we to judge?" To me writing is a struggle toward clarity. On another note, I look very much forward to Rollo May! I got a chuckle when I read of how you picked up your Becker and enjoyed your underlinings. For the first third of the book, I did not underline--I told myself, READ FIRST, UNDERLINE DURING THE SECOND READING. But my fingers got so itchy I couldn't help myself! The second 2/3 is full of underlinings and marginal notes! I really can't thank you enough for recommending that book to me. Oh, and by the way, have you ever read Salinger's FRANNY? Your observation about heroism being embodied in the most mundane act was also made by Salinger in that book. Peace. http://journals.aol.com/theresarrt7/TheresaWilliams-author/
Vince I love the way you think and write, and you are so right! I think this is part of why I've always written.
Derek
http://journals.aol.com/deveil/PictureoftheDay/
http://journals.aol.com/deveil/CelebrationofMyExhistance/
Shall we sing? :)
How true this is! I believe that's why we are addicts to our journals - computer or handwritten. Love the poem, V. gloria
How insightful....
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