Desire

[Jeos]

Oh Desire!

The desire underlying
all these joys

that engendered
all these grievances.

The desire of those
who die of hunger

The desire of those
who live to eat.

The desire of the body.
The desire of a body.

A body dead of desire.
The dead body of desire.

The desire for life.
The desire for death.

Death’s insatiable
desire for death.

The desire for death of the living.
The desire for life of the dead.

Desire is dead
Long life Desire!

[miyako73]

Desire is not a good thing for monotony and repetition. It has a tendency to sound sophomoric. I think it is due to the fact that it is a complex word. Repeating and simplifying it without going further disappoint expectations.

[Jeos]

Desire is not a good thing for monotony and repetition. It has a tendency to sound sophomoric. I think it is due to the fact that it is a complex word. Repeating and simplifying it without going further disappoint expectations.
Going further is up to you -
in your mind and heart.
But be careful -
desire might hurt you...

For the rest see it as a Buddhist alert-poem ...

[Delta40]

Do you mean in some sort of chant context?

[Jeos]

Do you mean in some sort of chant context?

My intention was another one, Delta, but... why not ??

Thanks for having noticed my sophomoric poem :bawling: ! Ah ah ah ! And by the way i'm seeing now that I forgot to put the word "because" (...because of the desire of those who live to eat).

[Bar22do]

You join here the famous thinkers who devoted their reflection to "desire"... From Plato, Socrates, Descartes (Passions of the Soul!), Kant, Hume, Freud ("Beyond the Pleasure Principle"!), Hegel... to Eastern philosophies.... it's a never closed subject!