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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
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Inspired from the 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the 1988 film adapted from it. Lightness, the concept of which is well expressed in the quote: what happens but once, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all. Following this logic, life is insignificant, and decisions do not matter, and are thus rendered light, because they do not cause personal suffering. Yet the insignificance of decisions, our being causes us great suffering, perceived as the unbearable lightness of being consequent to one’s awareness of life occurring once and never again; thus no one person’s actions are universally significant. This insignificance is existentially unbearable when it is considered that people want their lives to have transcendent meaning.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

artistic and intellectual life
invasion and its aftermath

sex and love two distinguishable entities
exploring female idosyncrasies expressed during sex

perhaps devoting ourselves to raising cattle and reading
fond of animals the last link to paradise abandoned by Adam and Eve

humiliation a relic of the past
dreamers based on actions of loyalty

seekers of lightness
ecstacy by protests

return after long wanderings
challenging Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence

the idea that the universe and its events
have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum

the concept of eternal recurrence imposes
heaviness on our lives and on the decisions we make

that each person has only one life to live
that which occurs in life occurs only once and never again

thus the lightness of being
based on endless strings of coincidences, no I think that's fate.


Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist


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 Reviews of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Reviewed by Jon Willey
Reviewed on January 22, 2011
Fate, the veiled mistress, the croupier in the game that is life. She's a collage of tainted perceptions riding a bucking bronco. Give her the spurs and hold on! I really enjoyed this creative rendering Sage. I bid you love and peace my dear friend. Jon Michael

Reviewed by Micki Peluso
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
"the idea that the universe and its events
have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum" Well done!! I feel too, that we need more lives than one to accomplisment what we need to do-or desire.

Micki


Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Your ofering gives us deep thoughts
I don't know that dreams are loyal
mine surely have not been...they are always changing
there are so many perceptions to one conception
one concievable anything
thats what we get for being free thinkers
and logic weighs heavy...sometime not at all though
the endlessness of the unending circle
where does it begin, or when does it end...
spiritual truths, logical sciences
collisions & colliding meanings

If I had a choice though you can bet your bottom dollar
I would not wish to ever ever ever return here
maybe I won't...but maybe I will and that is
the reason all those whispery & loud voices
swarm my head...who really knows...no-one
but then again...someone does...I think so anyway
yes someone knows...maybe we are just a cosmic
experiment by a extraterrestrial scientist run a muck?

perceptions millionaire
Vickie

Reviewed by Beth LaRance
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Very nice. Well done.

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
I think this is one of your best pieces of poetry, absolutely well done.

Cheers now and throughout this coming year,
Dan

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Written by Milan Kundera, a philosophical novel about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Do you know the author of the original book? I'd like to read it...kinda reminds me of books that the author Richard Bach used to write...his most memorable one being: "Jonathon Livingston Seagull"...Ed

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Some very interesting ideas. Your poems never fail to be interesting and challenging

Happy Holidays!

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
Sage, since I have but one life to live,
I'm glad you're in it. Peace and love be
with you on this special day. -gene.

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on December 25, 2010
I like this, Sage. Merry Christmas!

Reviewed by Amber Moonstone
Reviewed on December 24, 2010
I believe in just living in the moment, embracing life as it unfolds each day an new step on a journey to eternity.

May the blessings of this holiday season fill your heart with lots of peace, love and light,
Amber

Reviewed by The Poetess
Reviewed on December 24, 2010
I see so much meaning and opportunities for growth in life, and I strongly feel that this is not the only life we have or will live. I think we keep doing it until we get it right - until our Love can fill the void of it with Light. I appreciate the artistic flare in this.


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