Last updated: 05/01/2007 03:20 AM
The Predicament ~
Definitions! Here We unburden our ancient hopes by definitions~ but the undefinables stretch across the vision~ from the cosmos to the atoms from utter darkness to infinite light seasons and twilight meteors comets and sunlight infinite eternal ether ciboriums limpid sensual extravagances glorify nuances of our seeming knowledge. We have named them all details of latitudes and longitudes equators and erogenous zones acupuncture points and exotic hieroglyphs gods devils heavens hells all over all over we have inscribed our will. Our definitions are free airy~ strange is this language nurturing on mortal idiosyncrasy miraculous the structure the malleability the sustaining power the supple limbs of the Deity~ the square root of minus one laplacian, mutation, lagrangian, epistemology, ontology, zoology, topology homomorphisms, isomorphisms, biomorphisms, black-holes, white-holes, mere holes webbed equations Ultimate Revealations~ Language grows like The Last Fire~ we can stop nowhere: nowhere is an exact location where we have all begun~ but nothingness is a better beginning~ subtle descriptions of the Infinite Voids follow freely~ From the universal cauldron of sounds and letters tantalizing definitions bubble and brew identifying details in this nameless Whole. Weary homosapiens blessed with definitions for the Day of The Last Judgement retain within their skins tragedies, comedies, tragi-comedies mere scientific knowledge~ their art is to indicate without knowing: yet when they know they cannot indicate what they have known. That is their tragedy and comedy in a nutshell. Needless to say, the details are susceptible to further investigations, definitions! circa 1982 ~ Note~ I dedicate this poem specially to my father. I read out this poem to him many years ago, and as I reached 'investigations' and closed, my father added the word 'definitions' spontaneously, when I had been wondering for long whether I should do the same! |