Fantastic!! I smiled at your "reading between the lines" remarks. A wink and a nod to a friend is always fun to do in a poem. I also look forward to reading the poem not yet posted.
But the thing I love about your poem is that the rest of us can also enjoy where it takes us. It makes the hamster on my wheel start moving. If I love your poetry, that must mean I exist, right? Argh...I'm afraid I would fail entry level philosophy. But I love this poem. It is beautifully written. Wonderful lines.
Hi, S.L. 
Julie, "If I love your poetry, that must mean I exist, right?" Dang, lady! 
The philosopher and the writer in me are both loving you too much right now. I'd do cartwheels if I could, creaking back and all. (big grin)
It's 6:00 A.M., but I haven't been able to sleep yet (insomnia's back to make a pincushion out of my head). Sleep deprivation has quite a 'me drunk, whoopee' effect on me. Uhurm. (I'm having coffee right now, so, slowly, planets align again.) Oh, by the way, the part where I mentioned "a poem -- not yet posted here -- I've written for an old mentor-turned-friend" refers to the poem ("somewhere past a blackhole," written last year but posted just hours ago) that immediately follows as a quote. Pardon me for the bit of confusion there. I've restated said part (by the power of coffee!), for clarification.
Hallo, Julie, dear. Say hi to Amber for me. (hug)
So good to see you back, SL! I love the pairing of images and haiku. One could go in so many different directions with those words.
Wow! I just got a 60's flashback to late-night discussions with Psych majors and *the* philosophers of the day. This is just the thing we discussed. Timothy Leary are you still out there???
Loved the poem, S.L. - very weighty, indeed. Great existentialist musings.
An excellent haiga SL. The ku could very well stand on its own. Love this.
I remember a few discussions like the second poem myself Well said.
Thinker. Writer. Poet.
Yes! Lovin' it.
Oops...sorry! I misread your comment. A big duh for me. I thought "the next one" might be up tonight...LOL! But three cheers for the poem. It really is beautiful.
I'm laughing at your coffee remark, because I live on that stuff. Then I wonder why I can't sleep or think straight. Hugs to you, S.L.
Oh, that is a magical existential critique! Lovely.
it's past midnight now and i am reading your verses and enjoying it so i think i exist.
and i think the title is awesome.
WOW..nice stuff...i will follow your blog....and THANKS for reading my poems and commenting.
I love your work... you really help me recharge my own passion for writing, by hoping maybe I can capture what you do so perfectly.
I am glad you kept the first poem simple -as it is , the poem complements the picture just right.
the second poem combines irony and elegance - I can see the "philosopher" in me locked in a dim room suffocated among concepts....There are fortunately poems like yours to open the worlds above and beyond ...
i just love the WORD 'existentialist'
even though i can barely spell it
Beg To Differ
You see mask
staring down
from blue,
while I see snout
of Great White Shark
coming about
to strike at prow
of flat-bottomed
canoe, paddled
by crew of sun-darkened
men, who think
they know what lies
just below
surface.
And
relevance of black-holes (denial?)
Try never to think
about what some unknown
might deduce
from my words
and to what they might
aspire.
Must assume that unknown
would know
I might just be
a liar.
Sorry SL, this was just too much fun to resist. Love the photos and the poems. You always make me think!
i think the irony of most philosophic logic is that it eventually leads to questions that only expose the limits of philosophic logic. but it's still fun to ponder the questions - and even more fun to be reminded of the relevance of it all. your wit is as sharp as it is wry in this one.
i've moved. in case you wanted to know...
Your picture and post gives one something to ponder - life is always presenting us with mysteries - that is the beauty of it --
Rachel, Janice, Annamari, Barbara, glad to hear you liked the haiga.
K., Sandy, Dsnake, Maggie, Joaquin, the philosopher Albert Camus was the one who got me 'head over heels' into existentialism. Just sharing.
Ardi, thanks! (takes a bow)
Julie, long live caffeine lovers! (big grin)
Wayne, thank you for dropping by.
Bob, I am incredibly honored. Floored. Humbled.
Elizabeth, I'm happy to have spurred such creativity! I'm a fan of insightful feedback; yours hit the mark. I especially loved your take on the photos. Imaginative, image-rich.
Kim, thanks for the heads up!
I really like this. Probably because I'm such an avid philosophy geek. David Hume is my hero and Sartre changed my life.
I've added you to my blogroll.
Yes, that's probably the reason why. Glad to have you on board. Always a pleasure to know there are other philosophy junkies out there who have a strong poetry inclination. Cheers.
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