Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Emily Dickenson & Pythagoras

Ok so know one has said

A thing about Emily

Dickenson + Pythagoras = new heroes

 

You must have an opinion

So why not express it singularly

A way that would strengthen your

Resistance to simple plurality

 

The ancient world knew it all

They have forgotten more wisdom than we

Have learned

They have left their ruins and

Like them we will leave ours

Only ours won't be biodegradable

And not even dependable

 

Pythagoras on his island

Sharpening his stylo and working

His computations and understands

The mysteries of this life

He understands the purpose is to blend

Into the cosmos and leave the land and

The muscle behind

 

Emily Dickenson knew life was more

Supreme when left to Art and white

Dresses worn out doors in the night

Tending her phlox and her lilies

Sitting at her desk and writing and writing

Better than stuck behind the

Muscle of this life almost better than being out

On an island strumming your lute

 

Then there is Buddha by the side of road

Waiting for you to give him the answer

Are you able to sit with all of the strangeness

Of this Life or are you afraid of being alive

 

 

 

 

 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh mr editor could you fix the know to no on the first line... rather silly error... i will have to speak with your publicist

Charles

Anonymous said...

I thought the Know was intentional, a play on words, in a poem about what we know. "leave the land and muscle behind...." a brilliant line.
-kyra

Anonymous said...

thank you, then halt the presses don't change a thing

charles

Anonymous said...

correction "...leave the land and
The muscle behind