Thomas Merton Poem, ‘First Lesson About Man’

Thomas Merton Poem, ‘First Lesson About Man’

Go to this site to listen to this poem while seeing a collection of surrealist art - and comment on your impression of this poem's reflection of Thomas Merton's spirituality.

slight-existential ponderings, surreal-tinged verse are a few words used to describe this poem...

First Line: Man begins in zoology He is the saddest animal
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, p. 264

http://www.abstractreality.biz/2010/03/thomas-merton-first-lesson-about-man/

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A Poet Seeks