LIFESTREAMS: Thoughts on Love, Desire, and Evanescence

Don: 	  There's something nihilistic about this poem.

Bai-Luo:  That's because the author does not understand how to focus his desire properly.


	Streamsofdesire                  endlessflow
	creationorgasmic              everywheretogo
	summitsofecstacy              ambitionaflame
	venturinghigher              surmountingpain
	passionreincarnated      transmutingmerelust
	newtableausopening       thenturningagainand 
                  	  todust.

Don: 	  (cynically) . . . and in your view, what is 'proper focus'?

Bai-Luo:  You know the answer already. Helping others rather than self-gratification.


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from _Love Poems: Nonsense from the Heart_ 
SUMMARY:  A poem about love, cyclic desire, and bondage.
KEYWORDS: craving, hankering, transiency, changeability, ephemerality, nihilism, channeling desire

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) 
Begun: 1983 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2023 in Shizuoka, Japan 
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted 

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