Mind you, no recommendation!!!
What poet did not try to kill himself (herself)?
The irony is, that those who finally succeeded
failed the most to die,
since all they did in dying by their own hands
was to get themselves immortalised,
their words and poetry remaining
written more than just in blood
and more alive than they themselves.
The reason, also, is a very strange one.
Creativity is of all ideals the most demanding,
always craving more than anyone can give,
since one fulfilment must have more.
Thus the artist in her mortal limitations and confinement
never can live up to what the soul demands,
which always must defy, denounce and spite
all physical realities and possibilities
and thus, inevitably, tragically, fatally
creates a conflict between soul and body.
Many, if not most, who made a suicidal effort
and survived, were kind of resurrected and reborn
and even generally stimulated into new creative progress,
while all those, like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf
and others, who did not come back,
immortalised themselves nevertheless
by the triumphant victory and glory of their souls.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2009-01-16 at 10:19
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Anatomy of a suicide
What poet did not try to kill himself (herself)?
The irony is, that those who finally succeeded
failed the most to die,
since all they did in dying by their own hands
was to get themselves immortalised,
their words and poetry remaining
written more than just in blood
and more alive than they themselves.
The reason, also, is a very strange one.
Creativity is of all ideals the most demanding,
always craving more than anyone can give,
since one fulfilment must have more.
Thus the artist in her mortal limitations and confinement
never can live up to what the soul demands,
which always must defy, denounce and spite
all physical realities and possibilities
and thus, inevitably, tragically, fatally
creates a conflict between soul and body.
Many, if not most, who made a suicidal effort
and survived, were kind of resurrected and reborn
and even generally stimulated into new creative progress,
while all those, like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf
and others, who did not come back,
immortalised themselves nevertheless
by the triumphant victory and glory of their souls.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 487 times
Written on 2009-01-16 at 10:19
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