Epigrams
Noema: Festina Lente (haiku)
Nothing said quickly
Stirs the metaphysician
To hasten slowly.
History —
That which those who forget
Are condemned to repeat,
And which those who remember
Repeat ad nauseam.
The Tao that can be spoken of
Is not the True Tao,
But a reasonable facsimile.
Taste demands a feel for beauty;
Virtue, a feel for proportion.
Spirituality demands the most of all:
A feel for nonexistence.
The atheist denies
What the theist asserts.
But Deists grant God
The benefit of the doubt.
Morality is a tool
Used by the wise
To persuade the fool
Into such guise
That will cover his folly
In a cloak of white lies.
Even bad poetry is wonderful
When personal, and a gift.
But the higher reaches of mediocrity
Becomes unbearable when
Published by strangers.
And bought?
Perish the thought!
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