"The ancestor of action is Though. Essence of Thought is belief. The base of belief is hope." VL

G.F. Watts "Hope"

Poetry: Thoughts at War

As the artist will use soft graphite to express an inward reaction to outer inspiration, so the poet uses words to convey the inward thought of truth. Truth is lucid, as tangible to the mind as the thought of self, but philosophy demands a bestowal of ambiguity to postulate the avenues of the almost truth. Yet, the truth still is concrete. The human mind is the perfect faculty for the war between Truth and the Almost Truth. Proper poetry is nothing more than the divination of the victor at a certain point in the mental struggle between the two elements of thought. Artistically put forth, each poem is coordinate point in the graph of war; the point of a battle in which only one army of reason is winning. What could be combats what is, what might have been conflicts what was. The poetical arrangement could be considered the argumentation of the sides warring with each other to subvert the thought to the poet and more balefully, in the reader.

Shakespeare, Bryon, Keats, all of a truth argued two ways of thought, these are not necessarily contradictions in mental possesses, the mêlée exists till death; no two thoughts are identical once they are refined. The declaration of an inward creed does not nullify the inward conflict nor does refute of the same. The elements of broken lines that ink inscribes are merely a scoring of the inward conflict at current, but the war still burns in the mind. To disembogue the inward conflicts of mind into a flow of thought combining the seen with the unseen, the natural and the spiritual; that is the gift of the poet.