Self Relianceance

Self Reliance
an essay by R. W. Emerson

When I am not working, which I do too much of; In my private time here in Colorado, of which I have a lot of, I hike, bike ride, play my banjo, read, and write a poem or two. Well after reading Sir Emersons essay on Self reliance, another foray into bridiging the gap from todays man to the years of Splended Isolation, I write this review in verse. If you do't get it, go read Emerson. He is a little better than I.

The Bounce
By Paul Murphy

To breathe upon man this cacophony of nature
All of this world, winds of thought succeed
Upon rolling seas pitch his emotional character
The mathematical painting of stars, his reason proceeds
Upon unpredictable footing of shifting sands
The murmur of society, forming critique in defense
A commotion; command of his King to take a stand
The whisper of his God, where truth needs no evidence

They descend upon his mind, a prime faculty of man
An order to be deciphered his Will to survive
His Reason places them in order, rationale in command
For this moment a reflection; is his world contrived?
From bottom to top Spartans energy applied
From left to right on sunrise horizons unfold
From inside to outside his dreams yearn for truth; belie
His to transmit this reason, he is a man of this world

Tis his Nature to allow Reason to bounce off his soul
Sprung lose from humanity, blows his imagination
Introducing faith into his being, is a prophet told?
Intuitionist wind conquers a challenge from institutions
A symphony, his originality to exhale upon his dominion
To hold out for the self reliance of the next man endure
And save us from the shackles of social oblivion
His breath be the wind in the sails of our destiny, a cure