From the First Domino
Sometimes you wonder
if it was sometime back in school.
Or maybe well before that even,
when the first domino fell.
And you think,
from there, your only move
is the search.
The best seat.
To watch them all go over.
.
yep, it is official. the subjects of your poem are mysterious. maybe it would be a fun challenge to force yourself to describe the thing in itself (this is a philosophy forum, after all) and not the impression it leaves/creates.
free will?
determinism?
cause and effect? passively watching it?
I am the finger that flicks the first domino?
Hmm…the thing in itself. Yes, a philosophy forum. It is that, I reckon.
Funny, me and a couple of the guys were just talking about philosophy versus poetry.
Alexistentialism opines:
But if the intent is to pull the reader into their own understanding, how does making a philosophical statement foster that? That his poems retain the element of the mysterious is an unstated philosophical perspective in itself, isn’t it?