Blurring The Lines (+3)

If being and the world

are one and the same

Then thinking and thoughts

are together to name

With freedom and consciousness

semantically fused

All judgment and will

—symbiotically cued

 

(Baldwin School: March, 2021)

 

 

 

The Mousetrap Revisited

 

Entrapping the magic,

philosophers moan

 

Theory after theory,

no meat on the bone

 

They label and mark,

their didactics retooled

 

Force feeding their ramble

to dilettante-fools

 

And when in the end

they are then proven wrong

 

They slink back to their hollows,

where the vanquished now throng

 

But a new tier of ‘masters’

has taken their place

 

To lecture and spiel

—and pontificate

 

(Baldwin School: March, 2021)

 

 

The Old Woman Says...,

 

“You’ve got more past than future,”

she said without a smile

 

“The hours lost will not rewind,

your pendulum beguiled

 

“You’ve got more past than future,”

the hag said one last time

 

“Your legacy a broken spring

—whose clock no longer chimes”

 

 

(Valley Forge Memorial Bell Tower: March, 2021)

 

 

 

 

Brush Strokes & Margins

 

I can’t draw,

but I paint

 

I still sin,

but a saint

 

I talk best

when I’m mute

 

All I’ve lost

in pursuit

 

I begin

at the middle

 

And end

at the start

 

To give back

to the silence

 

This thing

—we call art

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)