Hello Grasshopper,
This is very skilful. There are a couple of questions. Is `energetic´ only applied to people? It´s only a question. I´m no scientist and maybe physicists do speak of materials being energetic in the sense of possessing energy. The second question is whether squirrels actually roll nuts. I think they carry them in a pouch in their cheek. Having said that, it´s doubtless possible that they push the nuts around sometimes, too. And maybe a poem doesn´t need to be a zoological thesis. And that whole line is a very nice one. Then there´s the subject. Is it true? I like those poems that offer or suggest a philosophical position and lead the reader to consider it and agree or not. I remember our discussion about disursive poetry. I wonder if you would call this a discursive poem. I would.
Best wishes, Mike
--- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
Ego
A shamanisitic friend tells me solemnly
about his astral journeys, of the passage
through the ether that is not empty, but alive
with golden energetic swirls, sparkling
like dust-motes in shafts of sunlight,
about his speakings with the spirits of animals,
that they have souls untainted by ego, unlike humans.
I think of a blackbird fluting variations of MemeMe
into the growing dawn, the stallion coralling his kingdom,
sly squirrels rolling requisitioned nuts like Sisyphus,
the jealous cat who shoulders his brother aside
to usurp a caress, his gaze twin 'I's in amber -
but I nod . We all have our truths, our knowledge.
Why shake the fruit from another's tree?
grasshopper
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