Base Your Life on Reason, Only Reason

July 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is revolution in honor of Bastille Day, which falls on July 14th.

Today’s poem is a Bastille Day poem about the dangers of basing life only on reason, as some revolutionaries tried to do.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Base your life on reason, only reason,

And watch your heart go crazy on the spot!

Some would vary judgment with the season,

Though some would say it is, or it is not.

In politics, one should be politic,

Lest change change what one needs to stay alive.

Logic cannot tell what makes things tick;

Each thought remains a creature of the hive.

Despite the power of reason, please take heed:

An amputated cranium tends to bleed.

Yet nations healed holistically will thrive.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/baseyo.html. For more Bastille Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/bastilledaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Revolution

July 10: Base Your Life on Reason, Only Reason