Elephant Ears

6/24/22

Category: Beauty, Nature, Poetry

A curl within a curl

within a curl

ad infinitum.

 

A turquoise fractal

with salty skin

and a wicked tongue.

 

The golden ratio—

multiplying itself

in eternal swirls—

a pillow for Poseidon.

 

I stare out at the horizon,

blue walls of hydrogen

and oxygen molecules

holding hands

 

as I listen with elephant ears

to the peels

of white-cap backpacks

on these eternal sojourners.

 

The butterfly-effect is real.

 

Towers that bend

as my feet descend

to taste the ripe fruit

of exotic wings

 

is the passport

time forgot.

4/3/24

Category: Beauty, Cinema, Music, Poetry, Quotes

If you know me, then you know how much I love spoken word poetry and song lyrics. Creative lyrics–by disparate bands from two different songs separated by three decades–come to mind. In chronological order, the first music group is the American rock band known as The Doors, who everyone has heard of, from Generation Xers…

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3/24/24

The withering of the imagination to the point of poetic impotency at the hands of reason (logos) clad knowledge-seekers during the epoch of the Enlightenment left a void in its philosophical wake. But as we know from experience, human nature has a way of redressing itself by swinging the proverbial pendulum back toward what it…

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3/22/24

Category: Literature, Poetry

The effect of the Enlightenment bifurcated not only faith and reason but also imagination and knowledge. “[S]ome philosophers of the Enlightenment thought that image and imagination simply clouded and obscured the pure dry knowledge that they were after” (Guite, Faith, Hope and Poetry, 2). This was done in vast contrast to the age when fables,…

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