The Daily Muse: Poem of the Day (POD)

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"The rooster of lust, the peacock of wanting to be famous, the crow of
ownership, and the duck of urgency...
There is a duck inside you. Her bill is never still, searching through dry and
wet alike...always thinking, 
'There's no time!  I won't get another chance!"--Rumi



Zarathustra Found

1. 

Man shall be overcome,
a mere conflict between 
plant and ghost, a rope tied 
between a dangerous 
across, an on-the-way,
a looking back, a stop
shuddering, a bridge, an 
overture, an 
arrow. 

2.

The time has come for man
to plant the seed of his
highest hope.  The ele-
mentalness gives birth to 
dancing stars, longing, go-
ing under the other 
separate shore, 
finite, a 
coming home.

3. 

I want once and for all
not to know many things;
wisdom sets limits, too. 
Despise all systems, they 
lack integrity. On-
ly thoughts reached by walking... 
concerning life, it is 
no good, a long sickness, 
yet, remain.

4.

Ravens inspired by 
whiffs of carrion, all 
great sages are object-
ions to themselves, their judge-
ments symptoms, question marks, 
un-wisdom, types of de-
cline, concept-mummies, lack-
ing history. Honest-
y carries no reasons
in its hands.  What must be 
proved is worthless, 
dialectic's buffoon.


*Note: the above is a found poem taken from the writings of Nietzsche with
approximately 6 syllables per line and
nine lines per stanza.