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Madueña

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About Me

"What lies before us
And what lies beyond
Are tiny compared
To what lies within us"
-Henry David Thoreau

My Interests

music
poetry
art
theatre
philosophy
astronomy
world mythology
the human imagination
culture and life

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sigur Ros
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Thelonious Monk
Kronos Quartet
Palestrina
Osvaldo Golijov
Led Zeppelin
Ravi Shankar
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Gotan Project

Books:

Pablo Neruda
Cien Años de Soledad
The Metamorphosis
The Odyssey
Khalil Ghibran
Gary Soto
The Divine Comedy
Hamlet
Bless Me, Ultima
Los Versos Del Capitan

Heroes:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Basho
William Blake
Federico Garcia Lorca

My Blog

The Meaning of Life: Part i lost count

Alex Maduena Dr. Howard Wettstein June 2, 2008 Philosophy 159 Frankl's Sub Specie Aeternitatis              Victor E. Frankl's accounts in "M...
Posted by Madueña on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST

As I Stand to Kiss the Moon

i seem to have developed a habit of staring off into space, lost in my thoughts, and then sighing heavily...or rather i tend to sigh a lot more now, but it's certainly not due to depression or anythin...
Posted by Madueña on Tue, 27 May 2008 08:30:00 PST

relief

this is the best poem i've read in a while. either i'm not reading enough poetry or this was just pretty clever....The Square Root of 3 by Dave Feinberg I'm sure that I will always be A lonely number...
Posted by Madueña on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:55:00 PST

i’m in love

And her name is Filosofia. And yet she leaves me longing every night, forever an eluding lover. I've searched for her in the dark recesses of the forest, hiding in the shadows of the trees, living und...
Posted by Madueña on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST

The Meaning of Life: Part I

so, i’ve decided to start posting up my philosophy papers from this quarter, not to be a pretentious English major, but because i figure they should really tell something about me. so, here it i...
Posted by Madueña on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:58:00 PST

This evening.

This evening I have seen the ugliest face of racism&I had my father insulted&my grandmother's toils and blistered hands spat upon&I have had my heart been called a coward's heart&my dreams called an a...
Posted by Madueña on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST

Two Analogous Poems

Sister You are a grain of rice-         & nbsp;              Waiting patiently until the time ...
Posted by Madueña on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:27:00 PST

Letters of Longing

i want to spin like carouselsin the fieldswith your hands holding mine,and in between the wild grass whirling with the breezeand us spinningeverything spinninglike a carousel,and when we are done spin...
Posted by Madueña on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:05:00 PST

Stale Tea

i sit here in my cold room by myself, i'm drinking a tea, and wonder why this tea grows flat, why it grows bitter. I once drank a holy tea, whose flavors provided an ecstasy, but...it once grew bitter...
Posted by Madueña on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:05:00 PST

because you are the idol....

Because you are the idol, I have become the idolater; Because the wine is from your cup, I have become intoxicated. Hundreds have hungered for you And died of starvation searching in the garden. ...
Posted by Madueña on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:26:00 PST