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Thursday, June 5, 2014

The poem

What is a poem?
A little text, some words.
A great communication, on rhyme.
A little thought.
Many great words.
A poem, can be a great deal,
long, or short.

Why this question?
A poem; is certainly a poem,
nothing to write about; that.
Is it that way with poems?
Words in order to think.
Words in order to laugh, be serious about,
something to think about.

Many poems, and many thoughts,
are written on our earth.
Read and understood,
in many ways.
Not many texts, are written about poems.
This came to,
because the question exists.

What have it been written poetries about?
Thoughts, which are understood.
Words, which have something to say.
Written a place, at one time.
Read and got meaning, in another mind.
Recited on a stage.
Listened on by many.

Where are the great poets?
Where are the fine thoughts?
What is it which has happened?
Where came this spiritual vacuum from?
Where has the power of reason gone?
When did the senses disappear?
It is time to think, and understand.

Why are we humans here?
Out from a nothingness, we did not arise.
This world is not in that way.
Is there a meaning, which is the cause?
This is not known, but it is thought about that.
In itself the life has meaning, that we know.
But what is behind all of this? That we do not know.

David H. Hegg