Les Poemes Philosophique (Volume 1): The Voices of Existentialism

By Ivan Kireevskii

"Impressive... poetry comes alive." -Fumi Amoda

"Deeply beautiful." -Benjamin Blues

"You are reaching my heart...your poetry speaks to my soul." -Kaya Cooper

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luminare Press
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798886790184

Ivan Kireevskii

A wandering ascetic, born stoic, was taught by Hume...where he learned to question the absolute. He became Vienna's myth-maker. He is Michelangelo and will paint you sadness. He is Montaigne and has relished solitude.He is Descartes...was born a devout stranger, never a child.

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the setting of the sun

slumbering…

submerged in a desire

having touched the roots

of conflict

a conflict between the doubt

and the genuine

the betrayed

and old forms destroyed

this, thy symptom

of imprisonment…

step forth

do not hide

remove your mask

the surface below

dissolves and melts

and fades away

clinging…

to weeds and trees

like a wrecking-crew

disassembling what you thought you knew

every idea

every assumption

walled in by mystery

legends turned to stone

lead you from the ghetto

to oblivion

its geometry and anguish

murdered by the sky

a language

of another tongue

its furious rhythm

lost in the vomiting crowd

where the light is buried

by noises and chains

this strange soul resides

in a space deep in my veins

a magnificent king

wanders untouched

standing desperate

a tangled beard stretched to the sea

a disenchanted world

a subtraction story

where fractured pillars

frame prospects of rock

assassin of reformers

and their sinister tricks

veiled behind meanings

arbitrarily assigned

the room

filled with suspicion

adapted to

the folds of the curtain

the absurdity of existence

at the fault line

of barbarism

go ahead… lift the veil

it precipitates

and it hardens

acquires angular

geometrical forms

in this…

the infinite of the rising

and the setting of the sun…

i saw no god