#existentialism — Public Fediverse posts

Star As The Suffering Man

Despite strange joy of reawakening,
through struggle to transcend egg of the mind,
James stumbles half awake in mirrored hall
where shadow of his non-existent ghost
explains new formulas for gaining wealth,

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/star-as-suffering-man.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Dynasty Of Cloud-Born Gods

Tickled by how often people will claim
they are descended from some royal chief,
I hide my own bloodline from jeweled crowns
to prove I am more farmer that court clown,
for hungry people digging in thick dirt

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/dynasty-of-cloud-born-gods.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Library Shelf Of My Heart

When I follow John to Strawberry Fields
forever on the signless road of faith,
he shows me new tomb where Orpheus lies,
so I turn on tape recorder of truth
to record prophecies his skull decries
which sound like

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/library-shelf-of-my-heart.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

World Money Empire

Though clouds of revolutionary change
glow gold above vast maze of city streets,
we go about our business to maintain
social structures founded on principles
that all human beings are created equal
while homeless

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/world-money-empire.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Misty Hills Of Verturia

Home to misty hills of Verturia
my heart guides me through tangled woods of time
where I build fortress of stone on the mound
heaped over bones of my ancestral soul
where I pluck gold crab apples from long limbs

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/misty-hills-of-verturia.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Whole Symmetry Of Accuracy

In arts of poetry and cartography
I love whole symmetry of accuracy,
so I arrange lithe words in sentences
and adjust points and lines in feature sets
to better represent reality
in virtual model that mirrors

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/whole-symmetry-of-accuracy.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Frankenstein Of Our Selves

I will never relate confusing tale
of that many-faced man who is not real
because his spirit lingers in all books
as every character singers have formed
from tangled mess of their old memories
that wanders as

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/frankenstein-of-our-selves.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Gold Hypnotic Eyes

The way piano notes cause crows to laugh
reveals old painting of the dreamy sky
dripping tears in crippled hands of the girl
who waits for someone to return from war,
intense with shadow of half-open door
that proves

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/gold-hypnotic-eyes.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Wand Of The Weeping Clown

Regret cannot stop how snowflakes descend
on delicate wings of unspoken words,
though death consumes old silence of our souls,
so we transform our pain to dreams of truth
confirming how we analyze each choice

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/wand-of-weeping-clown.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Queen Of Her Own Life

My heart swells with stark sensation of respect
when Earth spirals through bright cloud of stardust
beneath constellation of the Brave Boy
who rescues from Cruel Serpent of the sea
Graceful Girl sacrificed by Greedy

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/queen-of-her-own-life.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Dumb Earth Of Faith

I set my new grave in dumb earth of faith
to translate shrieks from heaven of the heart
so shambling wanderers on signless roads
may know with certainty where they can go
in verdant valley of our singing skulls
when

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/dumb-earth-of-faith.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Haven Of Protective Pale

Enclosed in haven of protective pale,
that surrounds her home with forcefield of love,
Juturna ponders all possible fates
that might result from each action she takes,
then chooses one grand deed she can perform

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/haven-of-protective-pale.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Weird Riddles Of The Truth

Astonished by strange beauty of the world
that teems with conscious creatures of desire,
I follow winding stream of flowing water
from ocean beach with swirling waves of change
to mountain cave where demons

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/weird-riddles-of-truth.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

New God Of Fire

If light illuminates all wounded hearts
with equal spectrum of chromatic chords,
we might through graphic vividness of faith
perceive prismatic ambience of love
that hope refracts in rainbow wings since time
vibrates in

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/new-god-of-fire.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Stars Unfold Their Dreams

When stars unfold their dreams into my heart
through cosmic cycles of resurgent faith,
I sing electric phrase of wrinkled time
to mark incessant turning of each day
through gentle ebbs of slow-subsiding tides

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/stars-unfold-their-dreams.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

White Butterfly Of Death

Shocked by the sudden certainty of death
that swoops at my heart on butterfly wings,
I curl into eccentric thought of shells
enclosing vibrant heart of vanity
to shelter in small haven of regret
against

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/white-butterfly-of-death.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

White Butterfly Of Death

Shocked by the sudden certainty of death
that swoops at my heart on butterfly wings,
I curl into eccentric thought of shells
enclosing vibrant heart of vanity
to shelter in small haven of regret
against

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/white-butterfly-of-death.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Rain Blooms Into Flowers

"The most beautiful kiss we ever share
is the one when the rain blooms into flowers,
and the sparrows translate our wordless thoughts
to uncanny song of the wind in trees,
and the clouds become palaces of trust

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/rain-blooms-into-flowers.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Mute Hydraulic Mystery

How often we forget advertised thoughts
about traumatic moments of insight
that broadcast bulletins of fateful fear
contrived by mute hydraulic mystery
we dare attempt to minimize with code
programmed to readjust

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/mute-hydraulic-mystery.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Eyes Of Dreamless Stars

If you want to see the ghost of my soul
with eyes of dreamless stars inside your heart,
express confounding mystery of the Name
that radiates from God Mind of the White Whole
which cannot be found on any dream

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/eyes-of-dreamless-stars.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Hazy Dreamscape Of Truth

Searching for the hazy dreamscape of truth,
that shrouds my soul in private memories
of my childhood and youth decades ago
with cultural ambience that glows no more
in cities far away across the land,
I wander

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/hazy-dreamscape-of-truth.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Competent Sense Of Self

Because his heart is based on principles
of honest expression about his thoughts
through brave respect for every living soul,
his mind constructs competent sense of self
on solid foundation of thoughtfulness
that

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/competent-sense-of-self.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Forgetful Kingdom Of Death

Every dawn I walk out into the world
I gaze long moment at the blazing sun
to see face of Apollo in its light,
that wise God of Healing and Archery
who maintains order with logic of truth
from reason through

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/forgetful-kingdom-of-death.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Ring Light Of My Heart

My mind perceives ethereal pulchritude
that emanates from beauty of your soul,
illuminated by ring light of my heart,
so you see special features of your being
reflected in clear mirror of my eyes
when you discern

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/ring-light-of-my-heart.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Neurons Of Conceptual Worlds

Our galaxy that swirls inside my mind
weaves dreams of creatures on large pulsing globes
in flashing neurons of conceptual worlds
through neural network of my sea-sponge brain
so I dream life of every

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/neurons-of-conceptual-worlds.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Born From Silver Stones

Too far away to hear song of the cloud,
three faceless children born from silver stones
might understand why grass desires to bloom
on the electric moon nobody owns,
or else their mother may pluck the mushroom

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/born-from-silver-stones.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Seashore Of Endless Worlds
© Surazeus
2026 08 07

Let us meet on seashore of endless worlds
so we can measure the infinite sky
and savor passion of the boisterous waves
that stir our hearts with restless faith in love,
then we can build

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/seashore-of-endless-worlds.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Sheer Joy Of The Dance

For nothing more than sheer joy of the dance
Tellus explores how her lithe body moves
through fluid expression of wordless grace
as she expands from darkness of sea caves
to understand contours of river vales
while

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/sheer-joy-of-dance.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

How Home Is Everywhere

The delicate flowers of unknown fears,
that she arranges in tall crystal bowl,
reflect strange sorrow of long afternoons
to simplify how angels become snow
which transform into blossoms of her eyes
so she conceals

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-home-is-everywhere.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Valley Of The Singing Stone

The rising midnight moon of silverness
photographs beauty of the human face
with colorful strangeness of wordless love
to beam shape of our temporary souls
in hearts of our descendants not yet born
who wonder

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/valley-of-singing-stone.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

Our Children Grow Strong

We sit beyond broad range of all deceit
in teeming garden of our alibis,
still undisturbed by grim visage of Time
who waits with scythe and glass of changing fate
to calculate with arcane laws of hope
how we

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/08/our-children-grow-strong.html

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism

So I did end up using Beehiiv for my newsletter. Thanks for the recommendations everyone!

The first edition of Pirate Ontology will be issued tomorrow, in which I discuss Diogenes and the Pirate Ontology aesthetic.

You can sign up here. (And it also gets you a copy of my second novel.)

https://markarayner.beehiiv.com/

#newsletter #humor #humour #pirates #ontology #being #existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre vs. the Conference of Difference. New analysis: freedom isn't a burdensome human condition but a specific expression of universal relational binding. A unified ontology dissolves the en-soi/pour-soi gap. 🧵

#Existentialism #Metaphysics #philosophy

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0300-jean-paul-sartre.htm

✮ To That Potted Plant ✮

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The deathbed perspective isn't about dying — it's about diagnosing which of your constraints are real and which ones you're just too comfortable to challenge. By @daylightatheism

https://onlys.ky/the-deathbed-perspective/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen

#Philosophy #Humanism #MeaningAndPurpose #Existentialism #SecularLiving

✮ The Pop Has Finally Lost Its Fizzle ✮

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗸𝘁𝘂" 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 -

Still reading late Auster because I can't stop: something about his voice, his indulgency, the seeming helplessness of it all. . . and then the turn. And here, the dog, Mr. Bones.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #paulauster #timbuktu #fiction #existentialism #animalnarrator

The Lighthouse Capitalism Stole

https://kayeschroniclescom.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/the-lighthouse-capitalism-stole/

Knowledge is power.

Power corrupts.

Cheese corrupts.

Therefore, knowledge is cheese.

KNOWLEDGE IS CHEESE. FRANCE IS BACON.

#existentialism

Combining the lessons of Game of Thrones and Existentialism for the business professional.

https://www.edyouragilecoach.com/swinging-the-sword/

You are welcome

🏴‍☠️ 🐻

#GhostGang #business #Leadership #Existentialism

A review of Carl Jung's 'Man and His Symbols'

https://recipe4.life/blog/man-and-his-symbols

#philosophy #psychology #existentialism #books

This week's MoshCast features a special guest: Jon Barbas from Heavy Metal Philosophy

#metalpodcasts #existentialism #Metallica #opeth #thehu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDfLi-Qmc8

✮ Warning Lights I Ignore ✮

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Exploring the origins of consciousness and embodiment through Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa.

https://recipe4.life/blog/metazoa

#psychology #philosophy #existentialism #books

Working on a new essay. It's "Euphysics II: Thus Spake Cú Joain," where I introduce a rehabilitated, contemporary, and nonbinary version of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Here's a funny picture and caption from it where I discuss what replaced God following his infamous death in *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*:

#Philosophy #Nietzsche #Existentialism #QueerTheory #Transgressive

Phone screen — a copy of the monitor screen — a copy of the TV screen — a copy of the eye retina — a copy of the observer — ?!.

</ ART 'CIGAR STORE INDIAN' — MARY EDITH BROOKS, 1942 >

#Psychology #Philosophy #Happiness #Observation #Existentialism

The anguish of choice

In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains

by Skye C Cleary

https://aeon.co/essays/re-reading-sartres-lecture-existentialism-is-a-humanism?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=67e66a245e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_07_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

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How To Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life 

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/14/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell-on-what-makes-a-fulfilling-life/

A review of the Zollikon Seminars, exploring the collaboration between Martin Heidegger and Medard Boss.

https://recipe4.life/blog/zollikon-seminars

#philosophy #psychology #books #existentialism

“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

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A review of Merlin Coverley's "Psychogeography"

https://recipe4.life/blog/psychogeography

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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 AD to 1900 AD)

Nietzsche critiqued traditional Christian morality, predicted the crisis of European nihilism, and introduced foundational concepts like the Übermensch.

Source: Twilight of the Idols (compiled via Google Gemini)

#GreatThinkers #philosophy #nietzsche #existentialism #psychology #history #individuality