A Notion
A notion of progress,
An arc that motions upward,
Sends the best into another orbit,
Concentric rings that elevate.
Ongoing perfection from such gains,
From phase to phase,
Mean rewards alter gratification.
Sterner attitudes manage pain,
Forfeit the felt refrain,
Circle the earth to secure effect,
All manner of acknowledgement.
Yet reason falters in every life,
Works in ways that blindly abdicate,
Befit a shattered coronation.
An arc that motions upward,
Sends the best into another orbit,
Concentric rings that elevate.
Ongoing perfection from such gains,
From phase to phase,
Mean rewards alter gratification.
Sterner attitudes manage pain,
Forfeit the felt refrain,
Circle the earth to secure effect,
All manner of acknowledgement.
Yet reason falters in every life,
Works in ways that blindly abdicate,
Befit a shattered coronation.
© ross 2023
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who crowns the best in a shattered way? and why do the best accept such a coronation?
Reason fails no matter how exalted and robustly exercised. Crowning is merely a metaphor.
This poem fills out the theme which plays out on my set of postings.
i need an example
i really want to know what you mean here.
Here are examples of the use, misuse, possibilities and limitations of reason from different perspectives taken from each of the first eleven poems: Yet reason falters in every life, Works in ways that blindly abdicate, Befit a shattered coronation. Reason advanced and deposed through another Altogether too familiar fall. Spell-binding reason harnessed to necessity Far beyond the hullabaloo of the Tower of Babel. Unweighed desire, unharnessed choice, unsorted experience Crown the animal imperative ungovernable, When the bird of hammered gold takes flight: A peculiar mark is left on incidental words. So I pray to know, what is it? A brief… Read more »
yes but it all sounds to me as some sort of subjective reason, clearly artistic and based on sentimental aspects of the human psyche which are being expressed by biological needs and failures. clearly philosophical reason means that thinking has a conclusion a rational one and an explanation why things got irrational in the external world or in our inner space. a clearly logical or philosophical reason of seeing the inner or outer world can explain unreasonable outcomes and failures. in a way Reason will always rise above excrement.. trying to put reason into practice, make it a practical solution… Read more »
Yes, this is the dilemma. My perspective is humanistic rather than Ideal.