Ideal-Real Poem by Zyw Zywa

Ideal-Real



Sometimes I dream of a new start
a new world, the earth
without human vices

only divine births
of helpfulness and wisdom
so that those words become obsolete

finally no more auditions
of imaginary comedians
with endless filth

their bundling of centuries
of coercion, humiliation, and abuse
in the joke of The Aristocrats

A world without me
only plants, animals
and avatars as a kind

of people who walk the virtual reality
of the golden means
of Aristotle

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: virtue
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
• Virtus = virtue
• Virtual = ideal-real
• "The Aristocrats": outdo each other with taboo-breaking jokes
• Avatara = descent = the incarnation of a deity descending to restore the cosmic order
• In the virtue ethics of Aristotle (384-322) , virtue is the golden mean between two opposite possibilities

At the request of Godfrey Ndlovu #2

Collection "PumicePieces"
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