Poems (and aphorisms)
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I am not a professional poet, though I write poems, nor artist, though I draw and paint, nor philosopher, though I think. I am a professional scientist, geologist and systems engineer by training. I have a PhD, Doctor of Philosophy, so I am a professional philosopher after all. Aphorisms       1. a concise statement of a principle;       2. a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment;       3. an ingeniously terse expression style                  Merriam-Webster On-line dictionary Any of those definitions will fit the 55 aphorisms extracted from and linked with journal entries. They were too short for poems and too long for slogans. Poems:  (see list below for links) I often express my feelings in free-form poems. Subjects range from love when young to more philosophical subjects later. I included 99 poems, 1 story, and 1 essay on this web site. The 101 items are listed below. Poems and aphorisms summaring my thoughts and feeling at the time. All are linked to other ideas or sources. Poems Title Date Title Date Title Date A Dream 19691103 Intelligence 19800000 Self Portrait 19740923 Alternatives 19740923 I Prayed Tonight 19700000 Sex with Sharon 19690600 Breathing Life 20050709 I Prefer The Loneliness 19700115 Short 19690000 Bureaucracy 19800300 Is Murder Immoral? 20050308 Silly Little Confused Kid 19690000 Certainty 20120417 Isn't It Sad? 19720300 Sin 20130322 Childhood Wonder 19700000 I've Never Had A Day 20120713 Snow 20060120 Cockroach 20130807 I Want To Give You A Dream 19690000 Snow On Glistening Peaks 20131130 Come In, Come In My Friends 20130317 Jobs 19900000 Stoned 19700108 Crows 20141106 Essay: Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart 19700620 Strive On 20120630 Damn You, God 20121117 Kook, Kook, Kook 20130302 Susie's Poem 20150813 Dawn 19700115 Laments For Sharon 19700109 Television 19691220 Do Away With Learning 19720225 Laments For Sharon(cont) 19700109 Thank God for the Killings 20121226 Ethereal 20130305 Magic Words 20141226 The Bear 20120716 Eulogy to Nature 19690000 Man-Woman: Let Us Grow 19740520 The Blues 20041211 Euterpe, Come Ride With Me Again 20130411 Mentors (pictures only) 20120226 The Dealer 20050302 Evolution 20160523 Metaphor 20160418 The Desk 20120518 Fools 19700000 My Place 20110905 The Isness of the Is 19700300 For An Actress 19690000 Noble Beasts Indeed 20131020 The Last Time I Saw Sharon 19701219 For Jim and Chris 19671218 Now, Where Did I Put That Pipe? 19691004 The Plague 19690000 For Kristy 19690000 Ode to Carbon 20141015 The Promethean Gift 20130207 For Medicine Wolf 20141000 Ode to Iris 20130900 There Was A Time 20050215 For Sharon 19690700 Ode to the Senses 20130216 Time 20150109 For Sharon H 19700323 Oh My God, The Phone Just Rang! 19691004 Trees by Joyce Kilmer 19800000 For Those That Want To Change The World 19700000 Oscillation 19700000 Tell Me 19700000 From One Comes Two 20051229 Story: Old Man By The Lake 19750000 Walker Street 19690000 Goodbye To Sharon 19691004 Only The Living Love 19691004 Wedding Vows 19731221 Have You Ever Watched A Watch? 19691004 patterns of the Wind 19960322 We Love The Fight 20041028 History of Philosophy 20111214 People Talking 20060120 What Have I Heard God Say? 20120905 How Did It Begin? This Idea of God 20120309 Perhaps I Babble 20160323 What Makes Us, Us? 20121203 How Many Shades Of Peach? 20131123 Poems I and II 19690000 When The Blues Cloud Your Day 20050208 I Don't Know What God Knows 20130404 Residents of the "Other World" 20130123 Where God Keeps Butterfly Wakes 19930702 I Learned That Long Ago 19690000 Sadism 19700800 Yin-Yang and Einstein 19720300 I Love Machines 19730400 Scenery 19700800 out of order I Met Them One Day 19700100 Seas of Knowledge 20100513 Canadian Hippies 19691128 Immortality 19760700 Seeking Heaven 20130302 For Sharon B 19691128