Is this piece philosophical. political, personal, or just plain obtuse?
Of course I can't be certain. Are you?


Certainty dies a slow death

Perched on the tip of a pinhead
certainty dies a slow death
it exhales in fits of antithesis
like a butterfly fixed on display

Its life was always ambivalent
an alleged myth of shared perception
and now like droplets of mercury
relativity splatters the truth




Poetry by Hans Bump
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Written on 2012-01-23 at 07:29

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Wumbulu
One butterfly...how many angels? There is a religious context in the death of certainty. Religious people are always certain of their truths, scientists and philosophers never.
2012-06-16


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2012-01-29



This reminds me of a lecture I attended in college by Richard McKeon, who edited the go-to collection of Aristotle's works. He made no sense whatsoever. None. Not a jot. Yet, buried in the . . . obtuseness was a gem, I'm certain.
2012-01-25


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
No, I'm not certain, but I enjoyed the ride.
2012-01-24


liz munro The PoetBay support member heart!
what does "antithesis" mean?

it kinda made it hard for me to understand
but a very eye-grabbing title

~L.~
2012-01-23


shells
Ah the certainty of uncertainty, I think you nailed them all, or did you?
2012-01-23