Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste
Shapes can make an ancient sound
whose feelings stay untraced
Intuition grants a wish
to those who rebegin
Dimension in the blackest hole
new dwarf stars from within
Counting up or counting down
deception stays the same
What you gain or what you lose
redundant in the game
Endings come and endings go
ephemerally despised
Until the sacrificial lamb
—bleats out the final lie
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
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Very compelling... the "meaning" sneaks up on you, you lose your track for a moment, then another meaning starts to form. Just the right amount of abstraction and image to fascinate. If I have not said it before, even when I don't understand or embrace one of your poems, I must admit that you have just about the most sophisticated, well-edited style and diction of all the regular posters on this site. You never let me down in that respect. I am always impressed by your word-craft.
And you're the kind of reader-poet that inspires me
to continue writing. I always love hearing from you.
Thanks again
Kurt
I read a lot more than I compose... I still work and most of my creativity and brainpower goes toward my intensely fascinating but unpoetic career as it winds down... You keep me coming back.
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'Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste'
'Dimension in the blackest hole'
'Counting up or counting down
deception stays the same'
(1*9=0 '9'
2*9=1 '8'
3*9=2 '7'
4*9=3 '6'
5*9=4 '5'
6*9=5 '4'
7*9=6 '3'
8*9=7 '2'
9*9=8 '1'
10*9=9 '0')
why do you think, 'they'
don't teach it like this in schools
(loved this dear Poet
great work!
and yes, there is no greater Art
than Nature's, maths
'gravity's opposing forces
as a probability of happenstance anyone?')
lol
no wonder, half a millennia later
science can barely manage to reverse engineer
such a meagre percentile of wondrous Nature
Pythagoras had it sussed
we should all be worshipping
the Mexican jumping bean
lmao
Yes, Cormac McCarthys ‘Stella Maris.’
not read that one but Paulo Coelho's
'veronica decides to die'
stays with me, decades later
(the subject matter of the books seems similar
do you recommend 'Stella Maris'?)
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