Comments on: Thursday very Short Poem: Washika’s “No”

By: Douglas, Friend of Osho

Douglas, Friend of Osho — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:19:13 +0000

Firstly: greetings to a fellow ex-Monterey Peninsulan; I’m a Pacific Grove High boy, myself. Now, onto the meat (pun intended): I’m glad celibacy worked for you, Hugo. Usually, though, celibacy by Westerners who aren’t clerics raises my eyebrows until they resemble the Arch of Constantine. Why? Because it’s the usual Western allopathic approach to a condition that for most, isn’t a malady, much less a disease. Gratuitous sex: it’s something to outgrow, perhaps, nothing to be ashamed of. It’s contribution to “intimacy issues” (whatever happened to good-old fashioned words like “problem”?) isn’t such that giving up sex will make much difference. I’ve seen way too many SLAA members made even more miserable by sexual sobriety to be convinced otherwise. To be sure, if love and “connection”—another silly word and a poor substitute for “amity” and “friendship”—is what one seeks, take a break, even a moratorium if one isn’t finding what makes one happy. In doing so, though, I hope the celibate does him/her self a favor and ask him/her self if s/he doesn’t have ridiculous feelings and outsized expectations. That’ll be a tall order; in Judeo-Christian societies, one is expected to have one’s ducks lined up at all times; God after all, ain’t at fault for your faults. I suppose that’s why the Hindu idea of the deity, which is that God enjoys your depravity, too, appeals to me more. But what do I know? I watch porn and had sex as a teen.

By: Japanese Poems

Japanese Poems — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:30:06 +0000

Japanese Poems

In the death poem or jisei , the essential idea was that at ones final moment of life, ones reflection on death (ones ow…

By: wilsonian

wilsonian — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:35:46 +0000

Very poignant. Thank you for posting this.

By: bmmg39

bmmg39 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:57:17 +0000

It has a “Fire and Ice” sort of brevity to it, replete with the “twist” in the final line. I like it.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:20:47 +0000

She’s a chinchilla!

By: Peggy Miller, poet

Peggy Miller, poet — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:34:25 +0000

I am in love with Matilda. Is she a chinchilla? (A fat gerbil? guinea pig?)
I came to your site via Google search for very short poems.
PM

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:09:35 +0000

Indeed. As one ex-girlfriend said to me once, “it’s better to be lonely than to wish you were.”

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:54:14 +0000

I believe I need to copy this one down (or perhaps just add it in the blog) — it captures more succinctly than I ever could the exact reasons I’m not dating.

I’ve tried (unsuccessfully) to explain this to my father. He’s offered to pay for an eHarmony subscription for me, because he doesn’t want me to be lonely. How do you explain that sometimes, being around people (without a real connection) is much more lonely than being *alone* ever could be?

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:01:34 +0000

It is a bit Parker-esque, isn’t it? Parker knew all about fierce loneliness, after all…

By: Angiportus

Angiportus — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:25:46 +0000

Thanks, I love bite-size ones.
Why does that remind me of Dorothy Parker?