The Bare Infinitive
poem by:
Geoffrey Brewer
Written
on Oct 24, 2016
Starting as a short verse on the grammatical entity - the bare infinitive (the infinitive with the 'to' stripped off) as in the first poem.; I then developed a phantasy that gave it a spiritual beingness, taken further in the second, which raises a philosophical point. THE BARE INFINITIVE 1 Unlimited by person or tense Unbarred by prepositional fence In naked freedom primitive There sits the bare infinitive THE BARE INFINITIVE 2 or Are you sure you want total freedom? Look: up above the stratosphere Outside the earth's protective veneer Beyond planets stars and galaxy Past even faintest nebulae Far from the pull of gravity Free of Dark Matter's hidden vector In existential cavity Untied to any spacial sector All human weakness risen above In solitary freedom primitive Beyond the bonds of hate or love There sits the Bare Infinitive No cares nor problems, fears nor pains But there's one question that remains From Liberty did he take a blessed kiss? Or to false seductive promise succumb Is he in sublime unfettered bliss? Or formless, endless tedium
Tags: humor, deep, riddle, imagery,
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Christopher Russon commented:
This is a well written poem with depth.
Wish I could write deep poems.
Geoffrey Brewer
commented:
Thanks. Try it. I didn't know that I could write any poetry until this year.
Christopher Russon
commented:
Wow Geoffrey seem like you have been writing years
I started December writing poems.I have now got the bug
Insparation doesn't always come that easy sadly.
Edward shields
commented:
Deep poem, my brain will take time to digest it.
Craig Steele
commented:
The last couplet is a stunner
Geoffrey Brewer
commented:
Thank you for the comments. I hesitate to try and explain a poem because there is a risk that that I would diminish the aesthetic and over-simplify the full meaning. But I will say that I alluded to the human spirit, stripped of its enclosure in human body, life form, and even the physical universe.
Your reference to the last couplet identifies a key point.
Nicho Mose
commented:
"and there was war in Heaven..." guess we'll find out afterwards.
