Category Archives: Philosophy

Prodigious Young Talent

Posted on January 23, 2019 by colonialist

A recent discovery I made last year (about eight years late) that has got me completely enthralled, is of the prodigy Alma Deutscher. Have you come across her? Born 2005, and now a concert pianist and violinist and a composer … Continue reading →

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Don’t Believe in Beliefs

Posted on August 12, 2018 by colonialist

  Religions that impose compulsions not to interfere with an insect from an apiary … you must bee leave! … are actually going to get you stung. How ridiculous that ‘must believe’ statement is. When you hear something, it either … Continue reading →

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The Conflict of Spirit and Passion

Posted on July 2, 2018 by colonialist

          What home the gods will ever find? Flight cycles spiral to each place Where spirit lessons that unwind In flitting essence, passions face. (Wordle 358) © July 2018 Colonialist

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Esoteric Wordle on Life, Universes and Everything

Posted on April 30, 2017 by colonialist

For Wordle 297, some simple linking of the words in order given produces a piece which could be total nonsense … or a deeply profound thought. It all hinges (as with so much poetry) on how widely the imagination is … Continue reading →

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Lasting Prayers

Posted on February 12, 2017 by colonialist

Wordle 284 Prayers carved into brown doors, On papers fingernails must prise, Or fire-etched on floors, Or bled in stone to show the wise — The body of such messages has streamed As soldiers, fighting longer than is dreamed. © … Continue reading →

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A Rhinoceros at the Pool

Posted on December 2, 2016 by colonialist

Pools and schools have figured largely in my life just lately. Take yesterday: in the morning was R’s prizegiving event at her school, and after that we shot off to get my Yacht Club (on the edge of a pretty … Continue reading →

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If Only …

Posted on October 13, 2016 by colonialist

‘If only …’ is one of the most heart-wrenching ways to begin a phrase after a tragic event.  ‘If only I had checked all seat belts were on …’,  ‘If only a doctor had been consulted sooner …’, ‘If only … Continue reading →

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Coining a Phrase (in the original sense) Really Awfully Profoundly.

Posted on August 14, 2016 by colonialist

Most look at one side of a coin, And flipping it over don’t try; It is most distinctly annoying They never the obverse will spy. Though those viewing both sides are better, And think, thus, all bets they will hedge, … Continue reading →

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WHO ARE YOU?

Posted on April 26, 2016 by colonialist

For Day 26 of NaPoWriMo I have gone off at a tangent to the question-and-response prompt in order to pose a simple question and long response related to the core of philosophy, and to the individualism of the drop you … Continue reading →

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Can there be Prophet in a Really Awful Wordle?

Posted on April 24, 2016 by colonialist

In adhering to my own rule of words in order and rhyming in Wordle 248, I have had to put in more than my normal number of fillers to make some kind of sense! Hills capture my soul; their peaks … Continue reading →

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