Halves and have nots
by desvelado (Member) - published: May 30, 2008
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Halves and have nots
F.R. Toscano

Aesthetic principles
Line dead end streets -
They are gnomic calling cards,
Obsessed with never being lost.
I stare, mawed silent by
Hands awash in ambiguities,
Thinking I have found
What I have never looked for;
I have been made a meeting place for
Impermanence.

Beauty is temporal,
Incomplete without praise.*
But this middle road
I have mapped with sore thumbs
Is what I have long since
Chosen never to forget.
Give me ugly
In God’s stead
And I will give you
A starting place.

(28 May 2008)

Author's Note:

* “…No beauty is complete without praise" - Pindar

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"The most well founded opinions, the most harmonious philosophic systems have always seemed precarious: Contradictory remarks made by others seem to me just as valid." - Francis Ponge (translated by Beth Archer)

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Comments

The following comments are for "Halves and have nots"
by desvelado

Give me ugly...
with so many other things to think about or do without the temporal most would think before looking and except before adoration, but in the middle of thse truthes in the rawness of the ugly we find reality.

No but really:

"finding what you never looked for" sums it all up for me. I'll re-read it's got so many links nd shadows of life's light.

( Posted by: LMJ [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

ugliness...
is just beauty resting... so says Jean Genet at any rate, and who are we to argue, hu? ...

some wonderfully well-turned phrases here, "mawed silent" is a particular favourite...

reminds me of a few things, this poem, reminds me of how we so very often define ourselves and others by what they are not… same for states of being and metaphysics, I guess… it takes us a while to realise that beauty is not just the absence of ugliness… and vice-a-versa… think ugliness might be closer to beauty than indifference, neutrality, nothingness…

also reminds me that being quote unquote beautiful can be an ugly experience, can lead to ugly things… doing beauty is harder, but perhaps less eventually corrosive…

I have also asserted that I am ugly, still do, in fact, not only ‘cause my face isn’t much to write home about, but because of what I look like on the inside… but that’s me… this poem isn’t about me…

love “meeting place for impermanence” it’s a great way of putting the mass of unresolved contradictions and complications that make up self… I think

thank you for this. complex and beautiful

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

The up side of ugly
What I like about ugly is how profoundly visceral one's reaction can be when confronted with gruesome. Very few get as lathered up about beauty. A starting place .. hmmm .. room for improvement rather than a fait accompli ... ?
Thought provoking poem.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

oh ..
halves? Was that intentional as in a plural of half and not have?

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

I have found
Okay, it's my turn....You are creeeping me out.
Not really but....I'mmmmm.....no I'm not going to say it again. I'm beginning to feel....?....weird about some of the comments I make to your works. Not that your doing anything wrong but.....shit okay...again I feel like your talking to me?....I mean.....I know your not, I know it's just a poem, (not implying that it's nothing), but these words you write just....well your words just..get to me. does that make sense? sorry not trying to FREAK YOU out too. I am simply very moved by your works.

"...obsessed with never being lost..." Well...I certainly can feel where your coming from on that. Hope is a very powerful force.

Damn...I don't know whats wrong with me...I'm once again holding back the tears. It's not anything you've done so please don't.....I have no idea what I'm trying to say.

I suppose I'm saying thank you for....being a "soulmate" in the never ending passions of hope, desire and all the emotions that make us such intense beings.

Nice way to start off the day

Thank you my friend,
xoxo

( Posted by: TAMMYHENDRIX [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

i loved the
texture of language in this poem. it's a 10.

( Posted by: johnjohndoe [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

I Love Ugly

We used to give ugly a chance
In dance halls in England and France
To ask a old pig for bit of a jig
Is a skill one needs to enhance?
Of course, you can easy cross wires
When your clever intention Back-Fires
Quite often, a chap gets naught but a slap
When mistaking her bust for spare tires
Praise is most often well met
That can help some chaps win a bet
But get in too deep with a promise to meet
Can end with a lot of regret
So Ugly is ugly and no loosing face
It has an advantage all over the place
Noisy kids dont stay they just run away
With no need to get up and chase

Whoops sorry

Eric

( Posted by: Fairplay [Member] On: May 30, 2008 )

Thanking sex, err, six
Lashea,
Your first paragraph reads like a poem. You might want to consider working it into one. That's talent. Think we all find what we never looked for. Been on both sides of that coin and prefer to not flip it most of the time.

Shannon,
No, it's not about you my friend because I see you as beautiful inside and out, regardless of what you keep telling us and yourself. It was actually written in response to the comment Tammy left for me on "Everything and nothing."

Which brings me to...

Tammy,
Having stated this is in response to you, I should tell you it's nothing negative. Just a reaction. Think Pindar said it best in his Hymn to Zeus - which is where I got the line from.

Penelope!
Good to see you on here again. There is always room for improvement. I have for years said everyone is beautiful. Have also said some people are so pretty they verge on ugly. Halves was intentional.

Jim,
You're too generous but I will take that 10. You have posted much lately. Where'd'cha go?

Eric,
No need to apologise. Your poem is funny and frank. The world needs more people like you.

Thank you one and all for stopping by here and commenting. Means more than you'll ever know.

( Posted by: desvelado [Member] On: June 1, 2008 )

Soulful, passionate, you!
Just re-read this. It's more beautiful the second time. My comment brought this out of you? Wow..I'm flattered. Don't worry I see nothing at all negative about this work of art. Honestly I had to look up some of your words but that just made it all the more intriguing. All the more beautiful. I wasn't flipping when I wrote that you were creeping me out. What I meant was, well for example...
"...obsessed with never being lost..." That is me...I don't want to give up. Do you understand what I mean? It's taken all my life to feel this way inside and even though deep down inside I feel like it's too late, and that causes such aches in me, I want to find someone who...grows this feeling in me even further.

"...I think I have found what I have never looked for" This is so.....your words are so..."penetrating" Does that make sense?

I may not know who Pindar is but I know who Francisco is....and this lovely work is a brilliant, illuminating example of who you are.

xoxo

( Posted by: TAMMYHENDRIX [Member] On: June 3, 2008 )

a Poem for thee indeed...
go a reading why don't cha! I hope you like!

( Posted by: LMJ [Member] On: June 3, 2008 )

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