November 2022 – The Thinkerer

Alive, thou art!

Man, thou art; art and artist,
Canvas and colour, painter and paint.
Man’s warm heart, enshrines a list,
Of loves to love, till fatally faint.

A Sonnet on Rage

Wrath Personified (Image Generated by DALL-E2)

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Author of Tom Sawyer

Ennui’s Flower

Ennui’s Plantation (Image Generated by DALL-E2)

In a restless state of rest, we often lie, on Boredom’s comfy bed,
Thinking of all we can accomplish, and accomplishing nothing instead!

A Poem on learning how to live…

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog – Caspar David Friedrich (Painted in 1818)

I thought and thought and thought again.
I fought and fought and fought again.
Yet brain and brawn, muscle and neuron,
Proposed no response of significance,
To a question driven into human oblivescence:

How does one make a life out of mere existence?
How must we live?

A Sonnet on Doors

The Uninvited Guest (Pt. 1) – Adolph Menzel (Painted in 1844)

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple Inc.

A Sonnet on Image

The False Mirror – René Magritte (Painted in 1928)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist

A Sonnet on Luminosity

The Starry Night – Vincent Van Gogh (Painted in 1889)

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
Maya Angelou, American Memoirist and Poet Extraordinaire