{"id":7930,"date":"2022-10-24T18:41:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:45:40","slug":"three-poems-telos-tabula-rasa-algor-by-carl-scharwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/three-poems-telos-tabula-rasa-algor-by-carl-scharwath\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems Telos, Tabula Rasa &#038; Algor by Carl Scharwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong>Telos<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTwo evening lovers\u2019 echoes\r\nIn you forgotten dreams and\r\nmemories of essence.\r\n\r\nTouch wordlessly in a greater optimism.\r\n\r\nWaves of summer morn\r\nUnder a cloudless sky with\r\nflickering lights of desire.\r\n\r\nTurning like a dancer alone on the stage of life\r\n\r\nThe evening leaves turn after \r\nTheir first death and sleep\r\nIn the place of forgotten Gods.\r\n\r\nDoes it break you apart to see the expectation so muddled?\r\n\r\n<strong>Tabula Rasa<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI saw the ethos of a\r\ngeneration destroyed-\r\nmourning the philosophers\r\nIn their artful vision.\r\n\r\nThe sense datum clouds\r\nwith cries of the \r\nnymphs welcoming \r\nnew world dawns.\r\n\r\nMentality is, in its way forming,\r\na sign of hopeful intelligence.\r\nKnavish roadblocks obstruct\r\ntriumphant returns to Arcadia.\r\n\r\nA sterism fills my sight\r\nAs the false memories\r\nOf a partial Utopia\r\nFlood my soul.\r\n\r\n<strong>Algor<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLike a winter landscape fearful\r\nOf revealing what lies underneath\r\nAnd I-one minute\r\nAdrift from myself.\r\n\r\nOpening up to you\r\nIs as easy as breathing\r\nIn the quest for completion\r\nOf a new threshold.\r\n\r\nPoetry is a constructed conversation\r\nOn the frontier of dreaming.\r\nI cannot help but freeze-and\r\nScrutinize the ideology doctrine.<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/three-poems-telos-tabula-rasa-algor-by-carl-scharwath\/20191015_132542_burst01\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20191015_132542_Burst01-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carl Scharwath<\/strong>,<em> has appeared globally with 170+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art. Two poetry books Journey to Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press)  and Abandoned (Scars Tv) have been published. His new book \u201cThe Playground of Destiny\u201d (Impspired Press 8\/21) features prose, poems and photography. His first photography book was published by Praxis in Africa. His photography was also exhibited in the Mount Dora Center for The Arts and Leesburg Center for The Arts galleries. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine (USA,) has a monthly interview column with ILA Magazine, a competitive runner, and a  2nd degree black- belt in Taekwondo.<\/em><br \/>\n &nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\">Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/Artvilla.com\">Artvilla.com <\/a>; You may visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm\">Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a> about author &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrylifeandtimes.com\">https:\/\/poetrylifeandtimes.com<\/a> See Robin performing his work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/robin-hislop-reads-at-university-of-leeds-his-poetry-and-translations-video-performance\">Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><h3>Share and Enjoy !<\/h3><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"wpsr-counter wpsrc-sz-40px\" style=\"color:#000\"><span class=\"scount\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest,print,pdf,twitter\"><i class=\"fa fa-share-alt\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><small class=\"stext\">Shares<\/small><\/div><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-count-1 sr-40px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-pinterest\"><a data-pin-custom=\"true\" data-id=\"pinterest\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=&amp;media=&amp;description=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Submit this to Pinterest\"><i class=\"fab fa-pinterest\"><\/i><span class=\"ctext\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest\"><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-print\"><a data-id=\"print\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Print this article \"><i class=\"fa fa-print\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-pdf\"><a data-id=\"pdf\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Convert to PDF\"><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a data-id=\"twitter\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet this !\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-32px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a data-id=\"facebook\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telos Two evening lovers\u2019 echoes In you forgotten dreams and memories of essence. Touch wordlessly in a greater optimism. Waves of summer morn Under a cloudless sky with flickering lights of desire. 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