Belisarius• Show poetry

well, after readiong what gets comments and the "oh i like this, so dark and sexy and i love the vocabulary" stuff so im going to do a test, i am going to produce some work in the similar vein (I shudder at the thought of it) and somthing else wich has depth and is not me using the most flamboyant words to impress. I bet you know which one will get the attention.

To live Life you must beat it into submission.

I am traveling to other countries at the moment on humanitarian missions. Via USN.

Philosophy is my bread and butter. The human condition is the most varied and interesting study.

I like to put a lot of allusions to philosophical works in to my work, so if you notice one pleas make mention so I don’t feel alone out here.

Nothing in life is sacred, nothing lasts

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
So the artist paints his portrait,
plays his guitar
Bright garish images fill the canvas
Distorted images
played to a broken tune
Flowery words mean nothing
Be creative for once.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
~ Nietzsche,

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies."
~ Rollo May

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
~ Brooks Atkinson

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities,
but in the expert's there are few.
~ Shunryu Suzuki