Day 21 Creations:
Today’s Bad Poet prompt was to create a “blackout poem.” To do this, you take an article, book page, or another written piece and black out some words but leaving others. Then read the remaining words. The below is meant to be read all the way down the left column, and then read the right column. I had to separate them so they’d fit in my journal…
That little voice
mind or brain?
stupid semantic question cuts to the heart
common sense art not different things
enshrined time
spatially extended
intellectual tides turn remarkable powers
philosophers assume metaphysical belief
tide started to recede
challenges pointed out
thought experiments that suggest
the most remarkable episode
phenomena
empty phenomena
free theories
part of the furniture of reality
step outside, measure it
moves within
enlarge
open up the horizon
suffering
forsake
Contemplative understanding of practice
transform our experience
Liberation is beyond the heart
experiment.
experience.