samwise agonistes
March 18, 2017 at 12:46 am Leave a comment
on memory and other fruitless agonies
samwise agonistes
i see your trace
on my soul’s walls
like a baby’s footprint
set in concrete, lasting
and quite meaningless,
though
a lesson in time itself
you
just so
continue.
as i scrub with all my might
to remove that stain
you remain,
and your shadow fills my sight.
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*‟agonistes‟ is “someone in the grip of inner conflict‟ and samwise the so-named self is certainly born of that (courtesy Chambers as portrayed by WordWeb Pro not cross-checked with ancient Lesser Oxford English because I’m old, lazy, arrogant and I did know it was a word though the meaning can be slightly more complex and/or complicated.
More precisely it is about the acquisition and cataloguing of values (or meanings, if there is a difference); thus it is in the realm of social psychology, indeed.
Entry filed under: new poetry, poetry, social psychology. Tags: new poetry, samwise agonistes.
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