Meditation

[PrinceMyshkin]

The earth is a beach in space
we cross at an angle to the sea.
There is no walking parallel

with it. Or with ourselves. Spiral
to the root, we travel
crooked at the source. Without

and within, these eyes, this beach,
this skin: the elements puddle
and, for all we know, hold firm.





J. Newman Sudden Proclamations copyright 1992

[CdnReader]

I like. :)

[firefangled]

The earth is a beach in space
we cross at an angle to the sea.
There is no walking parallel

with it. Or with ourselves. Spiral
to the root, we travel
crooked at the source. Without

and within, these eyes, this beach,
this skin: the elements puddle
and, for all we know, hold firm.





J. Newman Sudden Proclamations copyright 1992


Very perceptive poem and I have to remark how it points to something beyond mere synergy. "Without and within" says it.

I very much like the phrase, "for all we know," inserted in the last line. It is deliciously ambiguous.

[TheFifthElement]

I like this. The beach in space is reminiscent of the 'palm at the end of the mind' in Stevens Of Mere Being. I love the idea of elements puddling, but yet holding firm. There is something right and yet something off beam about it, true but unsettling. It makes me think. I enjoy that :)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Very perceptive poem and I have to remark how it points to something beyond mere synergy. "Without and within" says it.

I very much like the phrase, "for all we know," inserted in the last line. It is deliciously ambiguous.

Thanks. I love those little throwaways like "for all we know," those little brownies and cub scouts that do their humble jobs without hardly ever getting noticed.