
POETRY: Weaving a Web
Khaled Nusseibeh
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Weaving a Web
by Khaled Nusseibeh
Is it a veritable vacuum or block?
Visiting the condition of a writer?
As though an uneasy feeling
That nothing worthwhile is expressible
An overarching aspect is a certain pessimism
A diminished propensity for creative articulation
An inarticulacy weaving a web
Around a mind insufficiently practiced
Shall I turn to the classics for inspiration?
Here an idea, there an idea
As though a futility amid intellectual abundance
To be overcome through greater will
Or volition that pursues half-baked ideas
Turning them into worthwhile notions
Or images of a vast environment
Or ideas that abound in a cosmic setting
Replete with facts and phenomena
Amenable to human gaging and apprehension
In an ephemeral life of infinite variety
Complexity, richness- telling a vast amount
To minds and societies that wish to know
To understand, to extend the immense frontiers of knowledge
Just like chasing a rolling stone
Holding it, touching it, discovering it and loving it
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