Recollections and Soliloquies (VI & VII)

Stefan Sencerz

November 26, 2023 

VI 

 Where I belong I do not know 

perhaps a hermit in past lives 

yearning for days as a lover? 

perhaps a lover in this life 

longing for days as a hermit? 

VII 

What can I learn I am not sure 

could you please teach me  

how to remember  

the sound of morning mist 

falling off blooming camellias?

Stefan Sencerz, born in in Warsaw, Poland, came to the United States to study philosophy and Zen Buddhism. He teaches philosophy, Western and Eastern, at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. His essays appeared in professional philosophy journals (mostly in the areas of animal ethics and metaethics) and his poems and short stories appeared in literary journals. Stefan has been active on the spoken-word scene winning the slam-masters poetry slam in conjunction with the National Poetry Slam in Madison Wisconsin, in 2008, as well as several poetry slams in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Chicago.