[New-Poetry] Philosopher/philosophy poems

[jforjames at aol.com]

Vision

 

 

This place, which warned its own remoteness

it would turn into a desert,

still has a few trees left and a few blue tits in them,

calling: thorn-in-the-ass, thorn-in-the-ass!

 

They’re calling to the weary or apathetic human being

who is out for a walk holding a book, 

and while wondering

what’s for supper, he mumbles:

“I’ve never thought like that or felt like that;

I’ve never said this!”


Socrates, reading Plato…

 

 

—Vladimír Holan

Mirroring: Selected Poems of Vladimir Holan

Translated by C.G. Hanzlicek & Dana Hábová

(Wesleyan, 1982)





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