"Being lost" [shi]
Impromptu on a g-chat tag
Not all who wander are lost. I haven't wandered, yet I'm lost!
I wonder as I wander allows an olden hymn
perhaps to be lost is strictly to be human
to be at a loss is conventionally counted as
tantamount to being at a clear disadvantage
yet isn't being lost our profound necessity?
a thing incomparable for its heuristic value
not all who wander are lost so you propose
maybe but this discursive morn finds me dubious
with hat-tips to Archana Dorge.
posted by david raphael israel at 12:50 PM
2 Comments:
wow! i'm actually quoted! :D i copied the first sentence, but the second was mine :D:D damn! i should have copyrighted it first :P
aah.. but i like the way you have played around with wandering and loss :)
Hopefully, even given copyright, this borrowing may amount to "fair use". At least you're attributed.
Also: not having quite finished with the thought(s) -- or your aphorism(s) -- the story(?) continues in the villanelle now posted above.
Some folks inscribe amusing things in space [which I dubbed a tag] allotted for self-comment in such chat interfaces as MSN's and Google's: at times descriptive, at times aphoristic, now mundane, now philosophical.
cheers,
d.i.
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