Another warning against the mind

[PrinceMyshkin]

The mind has its own hands
to do its work for it,
legs that take it
to strange camps.

The mind knows no limit
to its power. It razes
half the world, day and night,
at any real or fancied slight.

Ten thousand of the choicest
virgins, the blackest
caviar, grapes
of an almost unimaginable sweetness

--all these, the mind lays out before itself,
and takes them at a single bite.




J. Newman Sudden Proclamations copyright 1992

[goldenrod]

Limitless possibilities, the only constraint, lack of imagination and knowledge!

goldenrod.

[Sweets America]

Excellent, Princey-Shou!

I admire your poetry, the musicality of it. Your last line is wonderful, this image of sudenly grasping things.

[blazeofglory]

The mind has its own hands
to do its work for it,
legs that take it
to strange camps.

The mind knows no limit
to its power. It razes
half the world, day and night,
at any real or fancied slight.

Ten thousand of the choicest
virgins, the blackest
caviar, grapes
of an almost unimaginable sweetness

--all these, the mind lays out before itself,
and takes them at a single bite.




J. Newman Sudden Proclamations copyright 1992

Had you fabricated it or draped it a little bit imagination it could be matchless poetry.

[Umbilical]

The first line is a poem by itself... I love that line.

Are you saying that the mind owns and controls the body, and therefore the body has no choice - it's not even yielding, because it would need SOME level of autonomy to dissolve its 'choice' into the mind's power...
Or, are you saying that the body and mind are separate enough that the mind has its own body just like the body has its own body/mind...
That's my question for your first par, and that's why I like it - it makes me think. Although I think I think anyway... I think. :)
love how you used the word "virgins"...
although, yeah, that's just my thing.

[PrinceMyshkin]

The first line is a poem by itself... I love that line.

Are you saying that the mind owns and controls the body, and therefore the body has no choice - it's not even yielding, because it would need SOME level of autonomy to dissolve its 'choice' into the mind's power...
Or, are you saying that the body and mind are separate enough that the mind has its own body just like the body has its own body/mind...

Well, that's a debate that will go on perhaps for as long again as it already has but I'm inclining to think that it's the body that has supremacy: after all, the mind cannot feel hunger before the body does. So the mind is on the whole the body's agent though, like agents everywhere, it sometimes thinks it is paramount or tries to act as if it were.


That's my question for your first par, and that's why I like it - it makes me think. Although I think I think anyway... I think. :)
love how you used the word "virgins"...
although, yeah, that's just my thing.

Well, just for you I've composed the following in which I tried to use the word "virgins" as often as I could!


There are virgins of steel
and virgins of silk,
ones who become more virginal
the more often we take them!

But the ultimate virgin
(don’t be holding your breath)
– the ultimate virgin
is death!


And then of course there's that ditty:


Caviar comes from the virgin sturgeon.
The virgin sturgeon's a very rare fish.
The virgin sturgeon needs no urgin',
That's why caviar's a very rare dish!

[Pendragon]

The mind has its own hands
to do its work for it,
legs that take it
to strange camps.

The mind knows no limit
to its power. It razes
half the world, day and night,
at any real or fancied slight.





J. Newman Sudden Proclamations copyright 1992How true! The mind has its own mind! :thumbs_up