Today I post poetry about flying.
No pictures, just poetry.
(I could have included the first poem in my last blog-post about thorns under this topic.)
--
Tangential Wings
------------------
Tangential wings; these gusts above us become
Our earthen wind; they descend. And those
Wings are seemingly aloft, as is all reality.
And perpendicular, parallel, are the thermals
That behold our flight. For, we rise again
Unto our dreams once dying. We rise to be
But actual in the shadowbox. We rise
To be but embalmed by such perfume. Oh,
We fly within our surrender. We grasp
The strange equilibrium underneath us. And
Upwards, those tangents and wings are made,
As we convert the circles into spheres. Yes,
But we are vain; we are conceited. For, we
Possess the wonder that is our precognition,
That is our potential now dampened, now
Surely lifted skyward beyond our foreshortening.
++++++++++++
Barely Above The Floor
--------------------------
Our flight succumbs to the wind. But then we
Betray the distance underneath what we have
Traversed. Then we become the syzygy again
Of wasp, of butterfly, of a bird dreamt of still.
But, therefore, we have assumed the sky
To be ours. We have presumed the cosmos
Was equal to its own glass. We have ascended yet
Unto those scalene circles, each dire
Despite our vertigo. And upwards we fly,
Until we are barely above the floor, until
We can grasp the window seen, until
We too evolve into our shame, evolve into
The tiresome swirl of gusts and thermals
Within this exodus of self from consideration.
********************
The Bird Within The Maze
-------------------------
The bird within, within the maze -- yes, it is free
To fly above the walls and gaze down upon
This puzzle. And questions are asked, but never remain.
Oh, why does the bird just sit atop these corridors,
Neither ascending nor attempting to triumph? It is,
I suppose, not obsessed with human contests. It
Does not contemplate the same riddles that concern
Our own minds. But yet, yet it does.
It only sees beyond the game; and it
Knows that humanity built this maze. So, why
Should the bird imagine what we also imagine?
Oh, it finally lifts upwards and stares back
At the turbulent earth. And it observes us each
Straining to solve life's labyrinths. And it
Has a question of its own to ponder. Why,
Why did humankind build such pathways? For, I,
The bird, am truly free. And I am finally
Afloat above our world fragmented into
Its trite occupation with our
Superstitions, with our arbitrary shame depicted
Amongst the maze and its geometries of
Flightlessness grounded by all such conjectures.
==========
A Cowardly Bird
----------------
I assumed that I too was the bird, that I was
Avian in my epitome, in my totality coinciding
With the completion of all. Yet I never
Fly, but in my dreams. I cannot rise to become
More than human, more than trite. For, I fear
The expanse above me. So, I remain secluded here
Underneath the clouds. I remain perched
Upon the artificial world, although
I hope to someday rise.
But now I am surely a grounded creature. I
Am surely wilting into the air, into the very wind
For which I long. And my death impends. But I
Am not concerned by that. I only wish to deny
My self-betrayal. Therefore, I am a cowardly bird,
Am a flightless spirit redeemed only by my wisdom,
Redeemed only by my nonconformity.
...................
Into A More Obvious Void
---------------------------------
As angered by dreams, I was
Again, again an inconsistency
Of direction, of destiny; I was
Again as angered by this
(A violet of every color) which was
But invisible and excessive
In any specificality,
In all reality (subdivided into
And) of miscalculated syllables ...
... In every, in each, nightmare
I only before dwelled within, flying
Above the ceiling of existence,
Knowing, but unknown as to,
That I have been but naive,
Been but a severed child
Waking ironically to the dream,
To again a sight of sharpest lines
Very much ours,
Our enlightened emergence
Into a more obvious void.
ooooooooooo
And We Floated
----------------
The fins of this insect were such lavish ballast.
And his wings were, as his fins, translucent
And somehow invoked by my dreams. And he
Fluttered and swam and flew quickly upward.
Yet he never breached the clouds, for they
Were indifferent and taunting in their thunder.
And we climbed the spire, yet we sank again
Into the broth, into the fluids of recollection.
And we floated, and still we became both
Beautiful and turquoise, became the cone upon
Where we have been erased. Ah, this bug,
It drowned in its own breath. But, alas, it
Knew, as did I, that certainty is obvious, knew
That the trajectory of ambiguity is complicated,
Knew that we each have been transformed
From aquatic to acrobatic; and thus we extract
All our flight from our wondrous but tainted buoyancy.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In My Rising
----------------
My ascent was incongruent,
Was oscillatory and sometimes descending,
Was always condescending, but never
Perceived. And
My perception was staring into the psyche
Of this whore: Society.
And from within that cusp, I
Again attempted to rise
Out of my own creation. For
I hoped to achieve the purpose
Once denied in my rising,
In my flight always falling,
But never less than grounded,
And never more than infinite.
---
Leroy Quet
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thorns And Prickles
Today's theme: Thorns.
(I don't have many poems or pictures involving thorns, so this will be a relatively short blog-post.)
First picture: (simply) "Thorn". Second Picture: "Thorns Themselves Tearing".
(The following poem could have been included in my blog-post about butterflies as well, except that I wrote it right after I last posted about butterflies.)
Upon The Dismal Thorn
------------------------
Upon the dismal thorn, an oblivious butterfly
Is poised; it rests on its linearity aligned
But always misshapen. It is never stung
By the crude sharpness beneath such silk.
And still, this bug is held and exact
In its whispered belief. And I gaze onto
The subtle wings; for, they stammer, yes,
But are tilted only in their certainty. Ah,
Upon the dismal thorn, this lepidopteran
Does not release itself from its pangs. Oh,
I find myself aware of my disdain for
That stubbornness. But yet, yet I too am
Perched within the cusp. I too refute
My flight upwards. For, I dare only
To flutter atop this distant ground. I dare
Only to fly to fetch my hunger, only to
Imprison myself inside my agnosticism
Regarding the world above my madness, above
That magnificent but decisive ceiling.
++++++++++
(This poem I just wrote yesterday. It alludes to the poem above.)
Thorn Of Glass
---------------
Severed by this thorn of glass, my soul wails;
Yet it is finally soothed by its triumphant sickness.
And, certainly, the transparent salt within me,
It oozes and whispers and is finally obtained.
Severed by the spike, a shard, a speck of image;
My gut resumes its hallucinations. And then
The anger relinquishes its stains. Then the thorn
Transposes its triangular implications upon
My death, upon my magnificence conceived.
Oh, severed by this smooth knife, I protrude
From my evisceration. And then the blade
Ascends, and I depart, and I become opaque;
I become but the flower, become but the butterfly
Perched against such stabbing, perched anew
Amongst those forgotten poems, amongst
Those infinite thorns, all abrasive but somehow
Each distant from my flesh blandly grieving.
==============
This Cloud Of The Thorn
--------------------------
Coinciding with this cloud of the thorn, withered
Is such rain, is such beauty in which I succumb.
Withered are those naive thoughts of rancid sky.
And I relinquish my fist; and it erases the air;
It captures the single droplet. For where has this
Transparent speck become itself? Where, this water
Of potential grandiosity? Yet it fails. It fails
To wash into our dreams, into misshapen rivers soiled
And jagged. Oh, circumstances remain, then coincide,
Coincide with rain, with flesh, with stabbing shards.
For we too fall. We too are made from blood.
We too are but mist ascending, then descending,
Then arriving at our own curiosity, asking, surely,
Have we finally rested upon our desires, only to darken
Or be forgotten? Ah, and then we recall, however,
We are never to love, are never to evoke
Any such clouds.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(I think I posted this poem already. Maybe.)
Shimmering Thorns
(The Botany Lesson)
---------------------
The stem protrudes upwards and away
From its own flower beneath us, rising to
The diagonal sky. The leaves correlate
With their tapered parallelism, becoming
But petals of mismatched transparency.
The fruit implodes into its invisibility,
Into its threefold concentricity, rendering
Such seeds to be both sweet and elliptical.
The glow of this specimen denies its edge,
Accumulating within the spiral of such
A soul. And the earth under which
All seen is below, there it grows filthy
And wet and beautiful -- there it begins
To sprout then die then recreate anew
This perfume, recreate this distance spun
As if any profanity would define that flora
Of our conclusion, of our shimmering thorns.
*******************
(The last two poems mention thorns, but each is more about other things.)
Phases Of Each Imbecile's Concentric Light
--------------------------------------------------
The phases of each imbecile's concentric light
Reveal the inflection to be within a dream
Of shattered thorns themselves aglow,
Themselves glazed with such scribbles seen.
Distasteful imagination flattens before
Becoming trite then severed and aghast.
So I refute the prisms' pangs, refuse
To scream of any excreted plight,
Of any praise endured, of any rain
Made arid and torn; refuse to remain
Underneath the ceiling of blasphemy,
Underneath the convex shroud of beauty's cataclysm.
oooooooooooooo
Sideways Is
-------------
Strange and vague is the blacklight cosmos.
I gaze into its shadow, into its perfect water.
And I am cleansed, I am enraged by obviousness.
Oh, drawn as glass is this eclipse evoked;
Drawn as all purpose is our beauty endured,
Is our spectacular curvature utterly avant-garde.
Oh, sideways is the maze surrounding the blandness.
Sideways is the cylinder of cubes, is the cardioid
Rounder yet than any trapezoid. Sideways is
The thorn above our cursed sky, is the
Fragmentation of peculiarity into absolution
And obscure enlightenment whispered. Oh,
Strange and vague is the amorphous rainbow;
For it is unusual but apparent. And I know
I will never entwine within such a firmament,
Because it pretends to be too elongated for any
Of our misunderstandings to inevitably superimpose
Upon awareness, upon those dreams of speckled epitome.
...................
Leroy Quet
(I don't have many poems or pictures involving thorns, so this will be a relatively short blog-post.)
First picture: (simply) "Thorn". Second Picture: "Thorns Themselves Tearing".
(The following poem could have been included in my blog-post about butterflies as well, except that I wrote it right after I last posted about butterflies.)
Upon The Dismal Thorn
------------------------
Upon the dismal thorn, an oblivious butterfly
Is poised; it rests on its linearity aligned
But always misshapen. It is never stung
By the crude sharpness beneath such silk.
And still, this bug is held and exact
In its whispered belief. And I gaze onto
The subtle wings; for, they stammer, yes,
But are tilted only in their certainty. Ah,
Upon the dismal thorn, this lepidopteran
Does not release itself from its pangs. Oh,
I find myself aware of my disdain for
That stubbornness. But yet, yet I too am
Perched within the cusp. I too refute
My flight upwards. For, I dare only
To flutter atop this distant ground. I dare
Only to fly to fetch my hunger, only to
Imprison myself inside my agnosticism
Regarding the world above my madness, above
That magnificent but decisive ceiling.
++++++++++
(This poem I just wrote yesterday. It alludes to the poem above.)
Thorn Of Glass
---------------
Severed by this thorn of glass, my soul wails;
Yet it is finally soothed by its triumphant sickness.
And, certainly, the transparent salt within me,
It oozes and whispers and is finally obtained.
Severed by the spike, a shard, a speck of image;
My gut resumes its hallucinations. And then
The anger relinquishes its stains. Then the thorn
Transposes its triangular implications upon
My death, upon my magnificence conceived.
Oh, severed by this smooth knife, I protrude
From my evisceration. And then the blade
Ascends, and I depart, and I become opaque;
I become but the flower, become but the butterfly
Perched against such stabbing, perched anew
Amongst those forgotten poems, amongst
Those infinite thorns, all abrasive but somehow
Each distant from my flesh blandly grieving.
==============
This Cloud Of The Thorn
--------------------------
Coinciding with this cloud of the thorn, withered
Is such rain, is such beauty in which I succumb.
Withered are those naive thoughts of rancid sky.
And I relinquish my fist; and it erases the air;
It captures the single droplet. For where has this
Transparent speck become itself? Where, this water
Of potential grandiosity? Yet it fails. It fails
To wash into our dreams, into misshapen rivers soiled
And jagged. Oh, circumstances remain, then coincide,
Coincide with rain, with flesh, with stabbing shards.
For we too fall. We too are made from blood.
We too are but mist ascending, then descending,
Then arriving at our own curiosity, asking, surely,
Have we finally rested upon our desires, only to darken
Or be forgotten? Ah, and then we recall, however,
We are never to love, are never to evoke
Any such clouds.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(I think I posted this poem already. Maybe.)
Shimmering Thorns
(The Botany Lesson)
---------------------
The stem protrudes upwards and away
From its own flower beneath us, rising to
The diagonal sky. The leaves correlate
With their tapered parallelism, becoming
But petals of mismatched transparency.
The fruit implodes into its invisibility,
Into its threefold concentricity, rendering
Such seeds to be both sweet and elliptical.
The glow of this specimen denies its edge,
Accumulating within the spiral of such
A soul. And the earth under which
All seen is below, there it grows filthy
And wet and beautiful -- there it begins
To sprout then die then recreate anew
This perfume, recreate this distance spun
As if any profanity would define that flora
Of our conclusion, of our shimmering thorns.
*******************
(The last two poems mention thorns, but each is more about other things.)
Phases Of Each Imbecile's Concentric Light
--------------------------------------------------
The phases of each imbecile's concentric light
Reveal the inflection to be within a dream
Of shattered thorns themselves aglow,
Themselves glazed with such scribbles seen.
Distasteful imagination flattens before
Becoming trite then severed and aghast.
So I refute the prisms' pangs, refuse
To scream of any excreted plight,
Of any praise endured, of any rain
Made arid and torn; refuse to remain
Underneath the ceiling of blasphemy,
Underneath the convex shroud of beauty's cataclysm.
oooooooooooooo
Sideways Is
-------------
Strange and vague is the blacklight cosmos.
I gaze into its shadow, into its perfect water.
And I am cleansed, I am enraged by obviousness.
Oh, drawn as glass is this eclipse evoked;
Drawn as all purpose is our beauty endured,
Is our spectacular curvature utterly avant-garde.
Oh, sideways is the maze surrounding the blandness.
Sideways is the cylinder of cubes, is the cardioid
Rounder yet than any trapezoid. Sideways is
The thorn above our cursed sky, is the
Fragmentation of peculiarity into absolution
And obscure enlightenment whispered. Oh,
Strange and vague is the amorphous rainbow;
For it is unusual but apparent. And I know
I will never entwine within such a firmament,
Because it pretends to be too elongated for any
Of our misunderstandings to inevitably superimpose
Upon awareness, upon those dreams of speckled epitome.
...................
Leroy Quet
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Oh, Wondrous Maidens
Today's theme: women, she, her, femininity.
Sorry, no pictures. Every man's vision of feminine beauty is very personal, anyway.
--
A Poem Aloft And Forgone
-------------------------
In those dreams, in my dreams of her, I presumed
To write this forgotten poem. And I might
Have woken to draw again the words. But such
Was false. Those verbs and nouns and
Tender adjectives failed me and my senility.
Oh, I told her the parables of un-described and
Indescribable verse. But she retreated to her intellect.
She spoke of the substance of my mathematics. She
Spoke of tangled truth coiled anew in polyhedra.
And then I grasped her beauty, and I kissed
Her imagined mouth, a tangential nexus once puckered.
Then the pleasure unknown to my reality
Overcame us both. And I recited the poem
That is now aloft and forgone. I recited
The tragedy of solitude, the tragedy of concealment
Soon denied, soon to be depicted and questionable.
+++++++++++
She Flies
-----------
She flies towards the horizon, flies through
My infatuation. For, I see her see me. Then
I turn to hide. Then I run upwards to the sky.
And I meet her within our agony. She
Talks of love and embarrassment. I too am
Shunned by the vague thoughts. And thus
We become better than forever. Oh, there
We fall back into the maze.
She flies as her precognition once pondered.
She stares upon the dawn, and I am there again.
For, my eyes have altered their colors. She
And I grasp at our distance, and so we
Come together in our parting. And somehow
I forget all my dreams about her. But is my
Carelessness becoming the sad rectangles,
Becoming the wings aloft upon our perception,
Rising, flying into our thirsty ceilings?
========
The Obsession Of Madmen
-------------------------
I retreated; then I succumbed to her, this dream.
I met her at dawn. Never before did I embrace
Any other particularity forgotten. She was inevitable,
And she was my salve. For I remembered my arousal;
And yet I neglected my conversation. I gazed
Sideways then obtained such sweet exit.
Did I distract her? Did I tell her of my flavor?
And the darkness of this morning, it repressed us.
It told us of syllables; it showed us these photons.
Did love justify its sleep devoid of beginnings?
I retreated, although I hoped, I hoped that soon
In futures woken I will encounter her again, then
Oh, perhaps I will, then, then infuse us both with this
Fantasy, with our souls invoked. For she is, she
Was the obsession of madmen, was the prolonged
And hindered truth, was the epitome of image.
But I longed for those dawns of frozen concerns,
Of fluttered breath we both had assumed was symmetrical.
..................
A Face
-------
A face transforms its diagonals (into abbreviation
And convex madness). Each eye denied its sight;
For they saw the spell dissipate wondrously, saw such
Virtue inherent in nothingness. And they were placed
Vertically.
The mouth confronted this glow beyond it. Surely,
It whispered something regarding its concern.
And those lips enclosed the final voice without any
Other tongue or teeth.
Ah, the nose observed finality inside swallowed scent.
The cheeks, chin, and brow
All refused to imply their dimensions. Although
In this parallax is a scalene shell.
And then her hair,
It was transparent and yet still it was clangorous.
Such strange strands betraying mammals, they
Obscured the beauty of entangled irises, of breath
Defined by its topology.
Her face transforms
Its perpendicular thoughts into awareness. And
I forgot her. But I long yet again for that geometry,
If only to contemplate it, despite
My particular procrastination.
**************
The Angel Of Strange Convexity
-------------------------------------
And so the images of beauty's imperfections
Excrete themselves from the breath of this
Spirit's lips unseen yet unimagined and aglow.
For she, the angel of strange convexity, is
Her psychosis, is her tantrum cringing, is
This abrupt and folded persona of depiction,
Is this smooth and moist admiration
For my own creativity detached, putrid,
And gazed into -- it is radiating inward.
For she, the forgotten virgin of angry love,
She is trembling somehow vainly, is
Sipping her desires and then remaining
Contrite in her expression, in her spit
That rejoices in such sacredness of understanding.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What She Stared Upon
----------------------------
She gazed upwards at the vastness,
At the emptiness of our firmament.
She gazed into the shadows she made,
Seeing finitude and hope finally achieved.
She looked so into her closed eyes,
Finding the truth among the wind,
Among the containment of nothingness.
And she knew the lines were drawn,
Were a web of labyrinths intertwined,
Forming what she stared upon, what
She had forgotten of these silken edges.
ooooooooooooo
Anima
---------
I turned, as did she. And I shed this shadow.
I searched for the shapes of her soul.
I hid within reality dark and imagined.
And she wished, as I, to arrive here.
For she too was derived from pencil,
From pages beginning to somehow tear.
And, ha, maybe someday she will be born,
Will come as the succubus to save me.
But, yes, she is now of the flatness and alone
And hidden by reality;
And she turns, shedding the shadow,
Searching for the shapes of her soul.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Then Invisible
-----------------
Brilliantly lit,
She gasped and spoke of her halo.
But such triviality was shadowed,
Was behind and beyond this spirit
Of black then white then invisible.
Brilliantly lit was she again,
As we stared into her voice,
As we turned and spun ever,
Transmuting into purple (her irises).
For beautiful is this oblivion,
Is this world in which
She only exists to observe,
Only exists to somehow imagine.
############
Not Her
-----------
I am not her,
Although I have dreamt of her.
I am not her,
Although she dressed in the blackness, as I.
She tasted the poison* and found it pleasant.
She sang the very song she detested.
And through the mostly real hallucination
I saw her, I loved her,
I took her soul and held it (but apathetically).
She was as my child,
And this she did not know.
Oh, I was never her
(And she not I),
But once, but when,
But where I slept .... and hid again.
*(The coffee, the wine, the aspirin, and such metaphor)
^^^^^^^^^^
Alas (A Lass)
-----------------
... And she evaporated.
For from these insignificant atoms
Of information malformed,
I could only guess that I was certain
That, indeed, she was once as I saw her:
Ideal, sacred, my own soul’s virtue
Intertwined with hers
Someplace above our mundane
And seemingly important, but truly vile,
Stratum (of substance, of solidity and space).
Alas, I was to speak to her through her
... And through her eyes.
Alas, I was to find her forgotten, this
Moment failing quickly, falling
Suddenly into loss, never resurrected, not
To ever be complimented, not to be
Achieved. No, she had evaporated, dissolved
Into nothing but my desires lamented, into only
Hope that she might have once saw me as well
Upon this continuum sadly
Only subdivided, only sub-divine.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This Apparition
-------------------
This apparition in fuchsia - - in hot-pink softened only
By our infusion of psychic insulin,
By this terror resolved into a deepest hypocrisy - -
She, it, tastes our lust, and salivates.
She, it, will have deceived us into worshipping her,
The villainess of hate and love joined into conformity
For its own sake, for the sake of ignorance:
Our god.
Yes, we have fallen in love with her,
This demon and angel in lace,
This divine spirit of self-deception
And savagery towards all innocence.
For she is quite beautiful, of course.
For she is everything we have aspired to achieve,
To become, to create out of our hubris.
She is our own repression, the final destruction
Of all imagination, the same fantastic creativity of
Our souls which brought her into being originally
Out of nothing but our hope so misplaced.
//////////////////
I Drew Her Soul
--------------------
I drew her soul upon tracing-paper.
I shaded what I sketched in blue,
Though her soul was a red so sad,
So bloody and sour.
I talked to the stream of binary
Emanating from her electronic mouth.
This eased my pain somewhat.
I stroked her clear hair, as clear as glass.
And that hair shattered and glowed.
For I sang to her eyes in faint hope
That she would finally see just what,
Just what exactly felled my grand mind
In this forest of numbers and shadow.
But, alas, I could only ask her to step out
Of her box of illusion.
If she complied I would become aroused
By reality turned into the torus.
Rings become knots become points become
The composition of the sphere
That she gazes into to discover
Perfection beyond me.
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
(Warning. This last poem has a dirty word...)
This Withered Thought
----------------------
Her ghost smeared me, and I became round.
And I forgot her, as I fucked her, as I
Protruded into the spiral that was myself.
I am now a spheroid, a pearl, of convex
Emptiness, of hollow knots implied. Yes,
One was zero, one was two. But zero, it
Was not twice one. But I was. I was
Diffused and humiliated. But she was sour.
She was lost but yet alluring. And
I stabbed the simple ground. It therefore
Grew hungry. But she did not rise forth
To caress my uncertainty. She only flew
Above the window, above her vanity. She
Only remained forgotten. Ha. I thus emerged
From a callous exoskeleton. I otherwise
Conceived of my suffering. Then I partook,
Surely, in this withered thought coiled into
Its demands, into her desires
Imperceptibly described.
----
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
Sorry, no pictures. Every man's vision of feminine beauty is very personal, anyway.
--
A Poem Aloft And Forgone
-------------------------
In those dreams, in my dreams of her, I presumed
To write this forgotten poem. And I might
Have woken to draw again the words. But such
Was false. Those verbs and nouns and
Tender adjectives failed me and my senility.
Oh, I told her the parables of un-described and
Indescribable verse. But she retreated to her intellect.
She spoke of the substance of my mathematics. She
Spoke of tangled truth coiled anew in polyhedra.
And then I grasped her beauty, and I kissed
Her imagined mouth, a tangential nexus once puckered.
Then the pleasure unknown to my reality
Overcame us both. And I recited the poem
That is now aloft and forgone. I recited
The tragedy of solitude, the tragedy of concealment
Soon denied, soon to be depicted and questionable.
+++++++++++
She Flies
-----------
She flies towards the horizon, flies through
My infatuation. For, I see her see me. Then
I turn to hide. Then I run upwards to the sky.
And I meet her within our agony. She
Talks of love and embarrassment. I too am
Shunned by the vague thoughts. And thus
We become better than forever. Oh, there
We fall back into the maze.
She flies as her precognition once pondered.
She stares upon the dawn, and I am there again.
For, my eyes have altered their colors. She
And I grasp at our distance, and so we
Come together in our parting. And somehow
I forget all my dreams about her. But is my
Carelessness becoming the sad rectangles,
Becoming the wings aloft upon our perception,
Rising, flying into our thirsty ceilings?
========
The Obsession Of Madmen
-------------------------
I retreated; then I succumbed to her, this dream.
I met her at dawn. Never before did I embrace
Any other particularity forgotten. She was inevitable,
And she was my salve. For I remembered my arousal;
And yet I neglected my conversation. I gazed
Sideways then obtained such sweet exit.
Did I distract her? Did I tell her of my flavor?
And the darkness of this morning, it repressed us.
It told us of syllables; it showed us these photons.
Did love justify its sleep devoid of beginnings?
I retreated, although I hoped, I hoped that soon
In futures woken I will encounter her again, then
Oh, perhaps I will, then, then infuse us both with this
Fantasy, with our souls invoked. For she is, she
Was the obsession of madmen, was the prolonged
And hindered truth, was the epitome of image.
But I longed for those dawns of frozen concerns,
Of fluttered breath we both had assumed was symmetrical.
..................
A Face
-------
A face transforms its diagonals (into abbreviation
And convex madness). Each eye denied its sight;
For they saw the spell dissipate wondrously, saw such
Virtue inherent in nothingness. And they were placed
Vertically.
The mouth confronted this glow beyond it. Surely,
It whispered something regarding its concern.
And those lips enclosed the final voice without any
Other tongue or teeth.
Ah, the nose observed finality inside swallowed scent.
The cheeks, chin, and brow
All refused to imply their dimensions. Although
In this parallax is a scalene shell.
And then her hair,
It was transparent and yet still it was clangorous.
Such strange strands betraying mammals, they
Obscured the beauty of entangled irises, of breath
Defined by its topology.
Her face transforms
Its perpendicular thoughts into awareness. And
I forgot her. But I long yet again for that geometry,
If only to contemplate it, despite
My particular procrastination.
**************
The Angel Of Strange Convexity
-------------------------------------
And so the images of beauty's imperfections
Excrete themselves from the breath of this
Spirit's lips unseen yet unimagined and aglow.
For she, the angel of strange convexity, is
Her psychosis, is her tantrum cringing, is
This abrupt and folded persona of depiction,
Is this smooth and moist admiration
For my own creativity detached, putrid,
And gazed into -- it is radiating inward.
For she, the forgotten virgin of angry love,
She is trembling somehow vainly, is
Sipping her desires and then remaining
Contrite in her expression, in her spit
That rejoices in such sacredness of understanding.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What She Stared Upon
----------------------------
She gazed upwards at the vastness,
At the emptiness of our firmament.
She gazed into the shadows she made,
Seeing finitude and hope finally achieved.
She looked so into her closed eyes,
Finding the truth among the wind,
Among the containment of nothingness.
And she knew the lines were drawn,
Were a web of labyrinths intertwined,
Forming what she stared upon, what
She had forgotten of these silken edges.
ooooooooooooo
Anima
---------
I turned, as did she. And I shed this shadow.
I searched for the shapes of her soul.
I hid within reality dark and imagined.
And she wished, as I, to arrive here.
For she too was derived from pencil,
From pages beginning to somehow tear.
And, ha, maybe someday she will be born,
Will come as the succubus to save me.
But, yes, she is now of the flatness and alone
And hidden by reality;
And she turns, shedding the shadow,
Searching for the shapes of her soul.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Then Invisible
-----------------
Brilliantly lit,
She gasped and spoke of her halo.
But such triviality was shadowed,
Was behind and beyond this spirit
Of black then white then invisible.
Brilliantly lit was she again,
As we stared into her voice,
As we turned and spun ever,
Transmuting into purple (her irises).
For beautiful is this oblivion,
Is this world in which
She only exists to observe,
Only exists to somehow imagine.
############
Not Her
-----------
I am not her,
Although I have dreamt of her.
I am not her,
Although she dressed in the blackness, as I.
She tasted the poison* and found it pleasant.
She sang the very song she detested.
And through the mostly real hallucination
I saw her, I loved her,
I took her soul and held it (but apathetically).
She was as my child,
And this she did not know.
Oh, I was never her
(And she not I),
But once, but when,
But where I slept .... and hid again.
*(The coffee, the wine, the aspirin, and such metaphor)
^^^^^^^^^^
Alas (A Lass)
-----------------
... And she evaporated.
For from these insignificant atoms
Of information malformed,
I could only guess that I was certain
That, indeed, she was once as I saw her:
Ideal, sacred, my own soul’s virtue
Intertwined with hers
Someplace above our mundane
And seemingly important, but truly vile,
Stratum (of substance, of solidity and space).
Alas, I was to speak to her through her
... And through her eyes.
Alas, I was to find her forgotten, this
Moment failing quickly, falling
Suddenly into loss, never resurrected, not
To ever be complimented, not to be
Achieved. No, she had evaporated, dissolved
Into nothing but my desires lamented, into only
Hope that she might have once saw me as well
Upon this continuum sadly
Only subdivided, only sub-divine.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This Apparition
-------------------
This apparition in fuchsia - - in hot-pink softened only
By our infusion of psychic insulin,
By this terror resolved into a deepest hypocrisy - -
She, it, tastes our lust, and salivates.
She, it, will have deceived us into worshipping her,
The villainess of hate and love joined into conformity
For its own sake, for the sake of ignorance:
Our god.
Yes, we have fallen in love with her,
This demon and angel in lace,
This divine spirit of self-deception
And savagery towards all innocence.
For she is quite beautiful, of course.
For she is everything we have aspired to achieve,
To become, to create out of our hubris.
She is our own repression, the final destruction
Of all imagination, the same fantastic creativity of
Our souls which brought her into being originally
Out of nothing but our hope so misplaced.
//////////////////
I Drew Her Soul
--------------------
I drew her soul upon tracing-paper.
I shaded what I sketched in blue,
Though her soul was a red so sad,
So bloody and sour.
I talked to the stream of binary
Emanating from her electronic mouth.
This eased my pain somewhat.
I stroked her clear hair, as clear as glass.
And that hair shattered and glowed.
For I sang to her eyes in faint hope
That she would finally see just what,
Just what exactly felled my grand mind
In this forest of numbers and shadow.
But, alas, I could only ask her to step out
Of her box of illusion.
If she complied I would become aroused
By reality turned into the torus.
Rings become knots become points become
The composition of the sphere
That she gazes into to discover
Perfection beyond me.
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
(Warning. This last poem has a dirty word...)
This Withered Thought
----------------------
Her ghost smeared me, and I became round.
And I forgot her, as I fucked her, as I
Protruded into the spiral that was myself.
I am now a spheroid, a pearl, of convex
Emptiness, of hollow knots implied. Yes,
One was zero, one was two. But zero, it
Was not twice one. But I was. I was
Diffused and humiliated. But she was sour.
She was lost but yet alluring. And
I stabbed the simple ground. It therefore
Grew hungry. But she did not rise forth
To caress my uncertainty. She only flew
Above the window, above her vanity. She
Only remained forgotten. Ha. I thus emerged
From a callous exoskeleton. I otherwise
Conceived of my suffering. Then I partook,
Surely, in this withered thought coiled into
Its demands, into her desires
Imperceptibly described.
----
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
Thursday, January 8, 2009
That Which Entwines
Today's theme: Strings, threads, wires.
First picture: "Our Crudeness Entwined". Second picture: "Threads Ripped Sideways". Third picture: "Wire Stirred". Fourth picture: "Misshapen Agnosticism". Fifth picture: "Abrupt Strings Foreseen". (I just created this last picture today.)
(I wrote this first poem today.)
Almost The Loop Resolved
---------------------------
Almost a lemniscates, almost the loop resolved --
The sphere obscures this concealment beyond it.
And all is entwined by such curvature afloat.
All is balanced by purity and its antipode.
Oh, upon the coil, the slender string becomes
Both air and bizarre spite. Before my
Exaggerated gaze, I stare at this hallucination.
And it was salt; it was ice; it was sand.
Ah, among the simple glow, light became itself
Within such cloth. And the shadow conceived, it
Is made wrinkled by its flatness. Yes, I foresaw
That abrupt discontinuation. For, this
Wire hid behind its existence -- and so it
Swerved and swept forth between me
And my dreams. It contracted its expansion,
Yet returned to its center now external.
=========
The Knot Remains
------------------
I tie the string to string in such tangential knots.
I possess the twists of red, blue, yellow, and consequence.
I taste the magic preconceived; for, it is salty.
And I become entangled in this scribble; I become
But iridescent in my magnification. Oh, trite is
The thread that engulfs me. But I untie these theorems
That each compose the soul. And the knots transform
Into truth bound within atoms of counter-intuition.
Thus, I calculate the conjectures via their stains.
Therefore, I am but entwined between the loops,
Between the sarcastic string and its obviousness.
Ah, I attempt to reiterate this puzzle of lines.
Yet I cannot but pick at the mess. For,
The knot remains, despite us. It still
Remains begotten and labyrinthine and, yes, impromptu.
******************
Inexact Twine
--------------
This metaphorical representation of strange twine
Appeared to descend beneath its coil,
Appeared to tangle and contain such an infinity.
But it was crudely drawn; for, it bended
At right angles to be parallel with the ground.
And I could not determine its truth from this
Scrawl of impure magnification. I could not
Evaluate the precise swirl of this string; for,
It was false; it was artificial; it was
Introspective but yet flat and coarse.
Upwards, the concentric blur rose through
The hollowness of the ring. And under this,
The minimalist line betrayed its antecedent.
Under this elongated helix, there we
Sketched inexact twine; there we drew
But only the overt simplicity of abbreviation
Never truncated, never foreshortened or unintended.
+++++++++++
Along The Twine
-----------------
Along the twine, this smoke encourages such
Molecules. Oh, bent are the tubes, are the strings
Flung upwards, up towards such a stem. We reiterate
The froth. We twirl and indulge in our suffocation.
Along the thread, this surreal crawl becomes
Our dance. And we fly, we hang from coils and
Cylinders, hang from definitions of the void.
Along the wire, vertically are placed
Placeboes and lemniscates. Vertically we are
Elongated and enclosed, we are delicate in
Our most lavishly imprecise hatred. Ah, along
The lines correlated with their own distances,
All meanders and yet is rectified. There,
All is indifferent to this moisture, all is inept
And cowardly and cannibalistic. And there we yet
Sift through this crevice we are perilously adjoining.
.................
Becoming My String
---------------------
Vertical and bland, such a cusp becomes my string.
Such string becomes all within me. And then it
Shatters as the cube, as the torrent of harsh and
Haphazard geometry. I might have arranged those lines
Upon their unending voice. I might have achieved
The artful grasp; but I instead revealed my own
Mentality to be inert. I instead resorted to anger,
To empty dismay. And I elevated my hand unto
The ceiling's simple upwardness. For above me, there
Inside us each, I knew to somehow scream, knew
To redeem the clock's angles. Oh, I knew yet
To sever the timid sky from my future. Because
Vertical and bland is
The syzygy of my scribbled penetration.
::::::::::::::::::
Out Of Strings Unwound
-------------------------------
If I tasted the strings binding us,
The strings which become our stale desires
To eat the colored wax which encases us,
Which encases our edible resurrection;
Then this childhood is sour and imploding
Into such rabid succulence suckling
Upon a fleshy shadow I realize
Is still blurred, upon spoken rapture
Transcribed. Perfection is its entanglement,
Is its simplicity coalescing, forming
Emptiness out of completion, forming
Completion out of strings unwound.
ooooooooooo
Coils
-------
Coils within coils, they astound
Themselves in their own estimations.
They compress down into the knot,
Then release into a strange flight.
For they are we, the springs we are.
They are disrespected for their libido;
Disenchanted by their purpose.
Yet they pretend to comprehend
The universe in its infinite; in its
Point infinitely large.
For they are the strings which
Make up all matter; they are
The helixes at the nucleus of
Each atom of life.
And they dare to behold their own
Virtue and intellect, but still
Ignore their ignorance, still fail
To believe in their own failure
At being more than only beautiful.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wires
------
The wires of our random glee, they cut
And hold my mind within itself.
They grasp and coil and dimly enshroud
The misdirected shadows upon this edge.
And when idiocy becomes my distant metal,
I tangle and writhe underneath such
Illuminated superposition. For severed too
Is the essence of this scribbled thought.
Severed also is the glistening mesh of
These curled indications, is the blood
Of my symbolism, is the cord which still
Returns to its subdivision, which returns
To its wiry truth. For here
We are held by that separation.
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sinew
--------
Misspelled are the vertexes of each
Polygon returning. Strained
Is the sinew which desires
To rise and ring, to be this convexity.
And counting these atoms placed
Into what is only convoluted,
I pull and yell at these wires
That seem to be our strands,
That number the misspellings yet,
That encrypt the sinews
As if they had risen just to be astray.
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Every Threaded Strand
--------------------------
The shards defined, they tempt and taste
Every threaded strand of shame, of glue --
They interpret the soiled moments
Of each excess, of each diamond
Chaotic and plain.
Such vibration speaks the final truth,
Begging our dreams to explain
What they are, begging them to
Create the riddles entwined with themselves,
To scrawl upon an earthen cosmos
What regards these tirades, regards the anger
Which sweats and somehow congeals
Into mundaneness preening its edge,
An edge of spindly consciousness
Asking us to spare its concern
From its paradoxical wrath.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Leroy Quet
First picture: "Our Crudeness Entwined". Second picture: "Threads Ripped Sideways". Third picture: "Wire Stirred". Fourth picture: "Misshapen Agnosticism". Fifth picture: "Abrupt Strings Foreseen". (I just created this last picture today.)
(I wrote this first poem today.)
Almost The Loop Resolved
---------------------------
Almost a lemniscates, almost the loop resolved --
The sphere obscures this concealment beyond it.
And all is entwined by such curvature afloat.
All is balanced by purity and its antipode.
Oh, upon the coil, the slender string becomes
Both air and bizarre spite. Before my
Exaggerated gaze, I stare at this hallucination.
And it was salt; it was ice; it was sand.
Ah, among the simple glow, light became itself
Within such cloth. And the shadow conceived, it
Is made wrinkled by its flatness. Yes, I foresaw
That abrupt discontinuation. For, this
Wire hid behind its existence -- and so it
Swerved and swept forth between me
And my dreams. It contracted its expansion,
Yet returned to its center now external.
=========
The Knot Remains
------------------
I tie the string to string in such tangential knots.
I possess the twists of red, blue, yellow, and consequence.
I taste the magic preconceived; for, it is salty.
And I become entangled in this scribble; I become
But iridescent in my magnification. Oh, trite is
The thread that engulfs me. But I untie these theorems
That each compose the soul. And the knots transform
Into truth bound within atoms of counter-intuition.
Thus, I calculate the conjectures via their stains.
Therefore, I am but entwined between the loops,
Between the sarcastic string and its obviousness.
Ah, I attempt to reiterate this puzzle of lines.
Yet I cannot but pick at the mess. For,
The knot remains, despite us. It still
Remains begotten and labyrinthine and, yes, impromptu.
******************
Inexact Twine
--------------
This metaphorical representation of strange twine
Appeared to descend beneath its coil,
Appeared to tangle and contain such an infinity.
But it was crudely drawn; for, it bended
At right angles to be parallel with the ground.
And I could not determine its truth from this
Scrawl of impure magnification. I could not
Evaluate the precise swirl of this string; for,
It was false; it was artificial; it was
Introspective but yet flat and coarse.
Upwards, the concentric blur rose through
The hollowness of the ring. And under this,
The minimalist line betrayed its antecedent.
Under this elongated helix, there we
Sketched inexact twine; there we drew
But only the overt simplicity of abbreviation
Never truncated, never foreshortened or unintended.
+++++++++++
Along The Twine
-----------------
Along the twine, this smoke encourages such
Molecules. Oh, bent are the tubes, are the strings
Flung upwards, up towards such a stem. We reiterate
The froth. We twirl and indulge in our suffocation.
Along the thread, this surreal crawl becomes
Our dance. And we fly, we hang from coils and
Cylinders, hang from definitions of the void.
Along the wire, vertically are placed
Placeboes and lemniscates. Vertically we are
Elongated and enclosed, we are delicate in
Our most lavishly imprecise hatred. Ah, along
The lines correlated with their own distances,
All meanders and yet is rectified. There,
All is indifferent to this moisture, all is inept
And cowardly and cannibalistic. And there we yet
Sift through this crevice we are perilously adjoining.
.................
Becoming My String
---------------------
Vertical and bland, such a cusp becomes my string.
Such string becomes all within me. And then it
Shatters as the cube, as the torrent of harsh and
Haphazard geometry. I might have arranged those lines
Upon their unending voice. I might have achieved
The artful grasp; but I instead revealed my own
Mentality to be inert. I instead resorted to anger,
To empty dismay. And I elevated my hand unto
The ceiling's simple upwardness. For above me, there
Inside us each, I knew to somehow scream, knew
To redeem the clock's angles. Oh, I knew yet
To sever the timid sky from my future. Because
Vertical and bland is
The syzygy of my scribbled penetration.
::::::::::::::::::
Out Of Strings Unwound
-------------------------------
If I tasted the strings binding us,
The strings which become our stale desires
To eat the colored wax which encases us,
Which encases our edible resurrection;
Then this childhood is sour and imploding
Into such rabid succulence suckling
Upon a fleshy shadow I realize
Is still blurred, upon spoken rapture
Transcribed. Perfection is its entanglement,
Is its simplicity coalescing, forming
Emptiness out of completion, forming
Completion out of strings unwound.
ooooooooooo
Coils
-------
Coils within coils, they astound
Themselves in their own estimations.
They compress down into the knot,
Then release into a strange flight.
For they are we, the springs we are.
They are disrespected for their libido;
Disenchanted by their purpose.
Yet they pretend to comprehend
The universe in its infinite; in its
Point infinitely large.
For they are the strings which
Make up all matter; they are
The helixes at the nucleus of
Each atom of life.
And they dare to behold their own
Virtue and intellect, but still
Ignore their ignorance, still fail
To believe in their own failure
At being more than only beautiful.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wires
------
The wires of our random glee, they cut
And hold my mind within itself.
They grasp and coil and dimly enshroud
The misdirected shadows upon this edge.
And when idiocy becomes my distant metal,
I tangle and writhe underneath such
Illuminated superposition. For severed too
Is the essence of this scribbled thought.
Severed also is the glistening mesh of
These curled indications, is the blood
Of my symbolism, is the cord which still
Returns to its subdivision, which returns
To its wiry truth. For here
We are held by that separation.
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sinew
--------
Misspelled are the vertexes of each
Polygon returning. Strained
Is the sinew which desires
To rise and ring, to be this convexity.
And counting these atoms placed
Into what is only convoluted,
I pull and yell at these wires
That seem to be our strands,
That number the misspellings yet,
That encrypt the sinews
As if they had risen just to be astray.
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Every Threaded Strand
--------------------------
The shards defined, they tempt and taste
Every threaded strand of shame, of glue --
They interpret the soiled moments
Of each excess, of each diamond
Chaotic and plain.
Such vibration speaks the final truth,
Begging our dreams to explain
What they are, begging them to
Create the riddles entwined with themselves,
To scrawl upon an earthen cosmos
What regards these tirades, regards the anger
Which sweats and somehow congeals
Into mundaneness preening its edge,
An edge of spindly consciousness
Asking us to spare its concern
From its paradoxical wrath.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Leroy Quet
Friday, January 2, 2009
Little Beings
Since I just had a post about butterflies (the second post on such a topic), I will post on the miscellaneous non-butterfly buggers and other tiny animals.
First picture: "Coccinellid". (A Coccinellid is a member of the beetle family that includes ladybugs.) Second picture: "Snail". Third picture: "Shimmer Bug". And the last picture: "Forgotten Snail".
There This Bug
---------------
Arranged and aligned upon the edges of
Meandering lemniscates, there this bug became
The grub with a surreal and entangled exoskeleton.
There the scent of the din retreated to the lines
Upon which I crawl. And I am moist. I am
Soft and fluid, despite my slime. There is made
A spiral interwoven with spirals. There I am
But equal to my blood. And the wheel suffocates
My weighty introspection. For scalene are these
Trapezoids of my motion. Scrawled are these
Absurd conjectures proven valid and wondrous.
Scarce is the darkness inside where I am trivial,
Inside where I prolong the rotation of vertices
About a shell of certainty and screams.
======
Pearl Of A Snail
-----------------
The pearl of a snail, a stone coiled, converging,
It spirals and glows and appears to be nothingness.
And yet it is. And, still, this gem rots. Still,
This spheroid derives a helix from everything
And its uncertainty, perhaps. Oh, the sadness made
And formed into but a rock, it rises to fly;
But it cannot. For, the snail drags itself
Forth and into its convection. And it reiterates
Its hunger amongst its bending parable. It
Reiterates its allegories amongst its transformation.
This beautiful slime accumulates into a ball,
Into the incomplete laughter above us. And
The snail hides within its shell anew. For, there
It tames its vertigo; there, it tames the tilt
Of a world without loxodromes or moisture.
++++++++++
A Withered Snail Regretting
---------------------------------
Points drawn into lines into shapes made
Shapeless, made stunning and yet frail --
These conjectures of inconsistency, they
Intrude in among the emptiness we savor.
These assumptions of hyperbole, of
Hypothesis, they squeeze the spiral seen
Within these fingers, they become but
A withered snail regretting its ooze.
And these dots of psychotic amusement, they
Return to their width, to their height,
To their complicated concern. They
Hide within their shell; for there
The contemplation enrages us.
.................
The Ellipsoid And The Insect
-----------------------------
Ah,
Regarding the ellipsoid, upon which rests the bug;
It is seemingly translucent and concave. But
Still it rises up from the tabletop, rises towards
The slender floor of our ghastly dreams. And it
Is superficial in its roundness. Although
It tapers into such perpendicularity formed.
For, within it is the subdivided labyrinth.
Within it is that tilted and horrendous redemption.
Oh,
Regarding the insect, under which is the ellipsoid;
It stagnates and stains the space-time that it
Once traversed. It rotated and prognosticated
And procrastinated, despite our resentful humanity.
Then it flung itself upward and diagonally,
Converging onto windows without topology.
And it became again the ellipsoid, surely.
It became the polyhedron of our abstinence soiled
And Aroused.
****************
Equilateral Wings
------------------
The equilateral wings of this symmetrical bug
Revealed us all to be savage. But in these
Aesthetics is discovered epitome and color, is
Found our worthwhile amnesia; for, it succumbs.
Oh, in amongst the cocoon, we here are wondrous.
Yes, we sleep, but we wake unto our vanishing,
Unto a demeaning dream made magnificent. And
In the imagined night we fly. We take our wings
And flutter; then we rise above the occurrences
We have suffered. We then rest upon the point,
Upon the pinnacle within us. And there, there we
Are but alive, yet we are transformed.
There we are aloft again, becoming the conceptions
In which we partake. Ah, we ascend just barely;
And thus we are triumphant. Thus we are flung
Beyond our world of equilateral wings, beyond
Ourselves once inscribed with such continuation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Becoming Unprepared For Truth
-------------------------------
Almighty ambiguity -- Inside the coiled seed
Resides the winged hexagon, a bug, surely. And
Inhabited is the dirt. Yet in this mud is formed
Both plant and insect, is formed nothingness.
Astounding is that abyss. For in its mouth
I evolve, I become unprepared for truth. In
Its awareness is sunlit paradox, is circumstance
Made from water, salt, and shape. And there
We sprout to embark upon conjecture.
There we question this fluid, question the air.
There we wonder why we wonder. But then
The answer revealed is forgotten. Then I
Become imprecise in my awakening. Then I
Conceive of my mindlessness. And therefore
The seed
Again endures its assumptions of enlightenment,
Of misunderstanding.
ooooooooo
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
First picture: "Coccinellid". (A Coccinellid is a member of the beetle family that includes ladybugs.) Second picture: "Snail". Third picture: "Shimmer Bug". And the last picture: "Forgotten Snail".
There This Bug
---------------
Arranged and aligned upon the edges of
Meandering lemniscates, there this bug became
The grub with a surreal and entangled exoskeleton.
There the scent of the din retreated to the lines
Upon which I crawl. And I am moist. I am
Soft and fluid, despite my slime. There is made
A spiral interwoven with spirals. There I am
But equal to my blood. And the wheel suffocates
My weighty introspection. For scalene are these
Trapezoids of my motion. Scrawled are these
Absurd conjectures proven valid and wondrous.
Scarce is the darkness inside where I am trivial,
Inside where I prolong the rotation of vertices
About a shell of certainty and screams.
======
Pearl Of A Snail
-----------------
The pearl of a snail, a stone coiled, converging,
It spirals and glows and appears to be nothingness.
And yet it is. And, still, this gem rots. Still,
This spheroid derives a helix from everything
And its uncertainty, perhaps. Oh, the sadness made
And formed into but a rock, it rises to fly;
But it cannot. For, the snail drags itself
Forth and into its convection. And it reiterates
Its hunger amongst its bending parable. It
Reiterates its allegories amongst its transformation.
This beautiful slime accumulates into a ball,
Into the incomplete laughter above us. And
The snail hides within its shell anew. For, there
It tames its vertigo; there, it tames the tilt
Of a world without loxodromes or moisture.
++++++++++
A Withered Snail Regretting
---------------------------------
Points drawn into lines into shapes made
Shapeless, made stunning and yet frail --
These conjectures of inconsistency, they
Intrude in among the emptiness we savor.
These assumptions of hyperbole, of
Hypothesis, they squeeze the spiral seen
Within these fingers, they become but
A withered snail regretting its ooze.
And these dots of psychotic amusement, they
Return to their width, to their height,
To their complicated concern. They
Hide within their shell; for there
The contemplation enrages us.
.................
The Ellipsoid And The Insect
-----------------------------
Ah,
Regarding the ellipsoid, upon which rests the bug;
It is seemingly translucent and concave. But
Still it rises up from the tabletop, rises towards
The slender floor of our ghastly dreams. And it
Is superficial in its roundness. Although
It tapers into such perpendicularity formed.
For, within it is the subdivided labyrinth.
Within it is that tilted and horrendous redemption.
Oh,
Regarding the insect, under which is the ellipsoid;
It stagnates and stains the space-time that it
Once traversed. It rotated and prognosticated
And procrastinated, despite our resentful humanity.
Then it flung itself upward and diagonally,
Converging onto windows without topology.
And it became again the ellipsoid, surely.
It became the polyhedron of our abstinence soiled
And Aroused.
****************
Equilateral Wings
------------------
The equilateral wings of this symmetrical bug
Revealed us all to be savage. But in these
Aesthetics is discovered epitome and color, is
Found our worthwhile amnesia; for, it succumbs.
Oh, in amongst the cocoon, we here are wondrous.
Yes, we sleep, but we wake unto our vanishing,
Unto a demeaning dream made magnificent. And
In the imagined night we fly. We take our wings
And flutter; then we rise above the occurrences
We have suffered. We then rest upon the point,
Upon the pinnacle within us. And there, there we
Are but alive, yet we are transformed.
There we are aloft again, becoming the conceptions
In which we partake. Ah, we ascend just barely;
And thus we are triumphant. Thus we are flung
Beyond our world of equilateral wings, beyond
Ourselves once inscribed with such continuation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Becoming Unprepared For Truth
-------------------------------
Almighty ambiguity -- Inside the coiled seed
Resides the winged hexagon, a bug, surely. And
Inhabited is the dirt. Yet in this mud is formed
Both plant and insect, is formed nothingness.
Astounding is that abyss. For in its mouth
I evolve, I become unprepared for truth. In
Its awareness is sunlit paradox, is circumstance
Made from water, salt, and shape. And there
We sprout to embark upon conjecture.
There we question this fluid, question the air.
There we wonder why we wonder. But then
The answer revealed is forgotten. Then I
Become imprecise in my awakening. Then I
Conceive of my mindlessness. And therefore
The seed
Again endures its assumptions of enlightenment,
Of misunderstanding.
ooooooooo
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
Friday, December 26, 2008
More Butterflies Yet
This is my second post about butterflies.
See my first post on the topic (titled simply "Butterflies") here:
http://prism-of-spirals.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_28.html
First picture (as promised in my post about entropy): "Entropy Of A Butterfly". Second picture: "Gumball World". Middle picture: "Someday". Fourth picture: "Opaque Fragility". Last picture: "Vision Of Essence".
Butterfly With Infinite Wings
--------------------------------
A butterfly with infinite wings, with a
Thousand proboscises, with a billion eyes -- it
Dares to fly, dares to rest upon the stagnant cusp,
Upon its very thirst where it is vaguely poised.
So, it resonates in hues of yellow, of purple.
It echoes in the tints of fuchsia and blue. Yes,
It is but imprecise in its magic. But then,
Then it needs not its spells; for, it is
Diffused and yet contained. And thus, it
Wakes to sleep, wakes to tilt the sky upwards.
And it launches itself so as to be beneath us.
It flies, stirring the arid rain, stirring
The gaping wind, stuttering inside its occlusion.
For, its infinite wings are denied their metaphor.
They are denied their triumph. But they are
Enduring; they are also spectacularly afloat.
..............
Aloft And Distant
-------------------
Above these dreams, aloft and distant, is
A butterfly of magic and pondered colors.
And this insect's wings are fulfilled; for,
They descend and ascend inside their verticality.
Those wings are both round and imprecise.
And in their imprecision they obtain such
Thickness and dimension. Yet they are
Indescribable. Yet they are magnificent;
For, they are fuchsia and yellow and blue.
But assumptions seen within me resent this beauty,
Although I too am dichotomous and symmetrical.
I too fly in dreams made enduring. But
The butterfly is never proud of its levitation.
Its electric images are its metamorphosis.
Its allegories are its very amusement, are
Its embodiment as the flower it resembles.
===========
Nexus Of Our Symmetric Imbalance
------------------------------------
Intersecting such perpendicularity, the spaces extend
Upwards and horizontally into their nonconformity,
Into their foreshortening not explainable, oh. Yes,
Upon the nexus of our symmetric imbalance,
The coils remain jagged, and the angles are
Devoid of this broth of thought. Intersecting
The equilibrium of butterflies, of bowties and epitome,
There our gambits divine truest fruition.
There the topology curls into that diameter.
And we ignore those shapes. For, they are us.
They are the emergence of pompous imbeciles.
And, surely, we derive from the scene
A malicious interpretation. Then we crumple
This origami in our fanged fists. Then
We laugh, because we are amorphous. We
Are human monsters drawn among the spirals, drawn
Among the labyrinths we attempt to circumscribe.
***************
Butterfly Blood
-------------------
Butterfly blood, yet it stirs, yet it beckons
Unto the shattered mandala. Butterfly blood,
It transforms from caterpillars of magnitude into
Such resurrection. Dripping, dripping onto my
Allure. Dripping, it drips again onto the floor.
Butterfly blood, tell me of its beginning.
Sleeping until the dream shimmers and rises
Towards the night. Rising, it is evaporating
Quietly. Butterfly blood, tell me of our truth.
Butterfly blood, it is told amongst continuation,
Continuing to evoke enlightenment. Glowing,
Glowing, it transforms. Dripping, dripping as
Our sadness. Butterfly blood, it turns clear,
Remaking itself into this conclusion. See us,
See us fly. Fly. Butterfly blood, see the riddles
Tell us why. Bye.
+++++++++
My Cocoon
---------------
My inspiration has died and become cold.
But I seek still the release of the bonds
Which constrain me as a butterfly, a butterfly
Held tightly within its cocoon just prior
To its emergence, the release of all
Human divinity, the spectacular escape
Unto a world otherwise gray and dark.
For this insect is iridescent and irradiant.
And it has achieved its fantastic longing.
But now (and possibly always, it seems)
I am encased deeply within my vapid
And paranoid imagination, my cocoon.
For I may indeed die here, never
To realize my grandiose possibilities.
Yes, I am snug. Yes, I am embraced.
But that embrace belongs only to my prison.
For no love finds me nor is searching
For my saddened soul. I am contained
Here and always within this eternal
And vacuous trance, this illusion that
I might someday express my wings
Upon this world which awaits them,
And finally fly free, beautifully,
Yet content in my inevitable loneliness.
oooooooooo
Meaningless Butterflies
-----------------------------
Into the flight of bizarre butterflies
Is the collapse within circumferences, is
The abandonment of design, of this shell,
Is the veil of fire, is what is beheld:
Every fleck of odd snow, every atom alone;
Is the forgiveness dripping off our chins,
Is light and crystal shunning our nihilism,
Shunning the meaningless butterflies,
Shunning
The meaningless sparks falling through the center
Of what is only that madness which remains.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of Butterflies Circled
---------------------------
I would still write of butterflies circled
By each sky
Of viscous and vicious uncertainty.
I would still speak of rain destroying
The idea of wretched thirst
Not quenched but before longing.
I would still dream
Of my travels through passageways,
Through windows seen then known
Then again understood.
And again, I would still write
Of the butterflies bright, aglow,
And multi-hued,
And solidly their essences
And too unreal but ever so
Only contemplated.
"""""""""""""""
(Here is a poem related to the center picture above.)
Someday
-----------
I will someday draw butterflies
Constructed completed out of circles,
As some ancient geometric proof
Which may have only seemed to trisect
Angles, yet instead just barely doubled
The area of the square placed
On the edge of my mind’s concrete floor.
I will someday find inspiration
In beauty never understood, in ugliness
Known only for its beauty, in emptiness
Known just because it represents everything.
I will someday find that passageway
Which leads to my awakening, to
The maze becoming flat no more,
To all the colors I have told you
About so many times prior, told you
That I swore I saw them glowing
On the wings of butterflies made
Entirely out of circles, circles somehow shaped
Into whatever I have wanted them to be.
,,,,,,,,,,,
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
See my first post on the topic (titled simply "Butterflies") here:
http://prism-of-spirals.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_28.html
First picture (as promised in my post about entropy): "Entropy Of A Butterfly". Second picture: "Gumball World". Middle picture: "Someday". Fourth picture: "Opaque Fragility". Last picture: "Vision Of Essence".
Butterfly With Infinite Wings
--------------------------------
A butterfly with infinite wings, with a
Thousand proboscises, with a billion eyes -- it
Dares to fly, dares to rest upon the stagnant cusp,
Upon its very thirst where it is vaguely poised.
So, it resonates in hues of yellow, of purple.
It echoes in the tints of fuchsia and blue. Yes,
It is but imprecise in its magic. But then,
Then it needs not its spells; for, it is
Diffused and yet contained. And thus, it
Wakes to sleep, wakes to tilt the sky upwards.
And it launches itself so as to be beneath us.
It flies, stirring the arid rain, stirring
The gaping wind, stuttering inside its occlusion.
For, its infinite wings are denied their metaphor.
They are denied their triumph. But they are
Enduring; they are also spectacularly afloat.
..............
Aloft And Distant
-------------------
Above these dreams, aloft and distant, is
A butterfly of magic and pondered colors.
And this insect's wings are fulfilled; for,
They descend and ascend inside their verticality.
Those wings are both round and imprecise.
And in their imprecision they obtain such
Thickness and dimension. Yet they are
Indescribable. Yet they are magnificent;
For, they are fuchsia and yellow and blue.
But assumptions seen within me resent this beauty,
Although I too am dichotomous and symmetrical.
I too fly in dreams made enduring. But
The butterfly is never proud of its levitation.
Its electric images are its metamorphosis.
Its allegories are its very amusement, are
Its embodiment as the flower it resembles.
===========
Nexus Of Our Symmetric Imbalance
------------------------------------
Intersecting such perpendicularity, the spaces extend
Upwards and horizontally into their nonconformity,
Into their foreshortening not explainable, oh. Yes,
Upon the nexus of our symmetric imbalance,
The coils remain jagged, and the angles are
Devoid of this broth of thought. Intersecting
The equilibrium of butterflies, of bowties and epitome,
There our gambits divine truest fruition.
There the topology curls into that diameter.
And we ignore those shapes. For, they are us.
They are the emergence of pompous imbeciles.
And, surely, we derive from the scene
A malicious interpretation. Then we crumple
This origami in our fanged fists. Then
We laugh, because we are amorphous. We
Are human monsters drawn among the spirals, drawn
Among the labyrinths we attempt to circumscribe.
***************
Butterfly Blood
-------------------
Butterfly blood, yet it stirs, yet it beckons
Unto the shattered mandala. Butterfly blood,
It transforms from caterpillars of magnitude into
Such resurrection. Dripping, dripping onto my
Allure. Dripping, it drips again onto the floor.
Butterfly blood, tell me of its beginning.
Sleeping until the dream shimmers and rises
Towards the night. Rising, it is evaporating
Quietly. Butterfly blood, tell me of our truth.
Butterfly blood, it is told amongst continuation,
Continuing to evoke enlightenment. Glowing,
Glowing, it transforms. Dripping, dripping as
Our sadness. Butterfly blood, it turns clear,
Remaking itself into this conclusion. See us,
See us fly. Fly. Butterfly blood, see the riddles
Tell us why. Bye.
+++++++++
My Cocoon
---------------
My inspiration has died and become cold.
But I seek still the release of the bonds
Which constrain me as a butterfly, a butterfly
Held tightly within its cocoon just prior
To its emergence, the release of all
Human divinity, the spectacular escape
Unto a world otherwise gray and dark.
For this insect is iridescent and irradiant.
And it has achieved its fantastic longing.
But now (and possibly always, it seems)
I am encased deeply within my vapid
And paranoid imagination, my cocoon.
For I may indeed die here, never
To realize my grandiose possibilities.
Yes, I am snug. Yes, I am embraced.
But that embrace belongs only to my prison.
For no love finds me nor is searching
For my saddened soul. I am contained
Here and always within this eternal
And vacuous trance, this illusion that
I might someday express my wings
Upon this world which awaits them,
And finally fly free, beautifully,
Yet content in my inevitable loneliness.
oooooooooo
Meaningless Butterflies
-----------------------------
Into the flight of bizarre butterflies
Is the collapse within circumferences, is
The abandonment of design, of this shell,
Is the veil of fire, is what is beheld:
Every fleck of odd snow, every atom alone;
Is the forgiveness dripping off our chins,
Is light and crystal shunning our nihilism,
Shunning the meaningless butterflies,
Shunning
The meaningless sparks falling through the center
Of what is only that madness which remains.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of Butterflies Circled
---------------------------
I would still write of butterflies circled
By each sky
Of viscous and vicious uncertainty.
I would still speak of rain destroying
The idea of wretched thirst
Not quenched but before longing.
I would still dream
Of my travels through passageways,
Through windows seen then known
Then again understood.
And again, I would still write
Of the butterflies bright, aglow,
And multi-hued,
And solidly their essences
And too unreal but ever so
Only contemplated.
"""""""""""""""
(Here is a poem related to the center picture above.)
Someday
-----------
I will someday draw butterflies
Constructed completed out of circles,
As some ancient geometric proof
Which may have only seemed to trisect
Angles, yet instead just barely doubled
The area of the square placed
On the edge of my mind’s concrete floor.
I will someday find inspiration
In beauty never understood, in ugliness
Known only for its beauty, in emptiness
Known just because it represents everything.
I will someday find that passageway
Which leads to my awakening, to
The maze becoming flat no more,
To all the colors I have told you
About so many times prior, told you
That I swore I saw them glowing
On the wings of butterflies made
Entirely out of circles, circles somehow shaped
Into whatever I have wanted them to be.
,,,,,,,,,,,
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Games Inexactly Metaphorical
The theme for today: Games (Abstract games played with a piece of paper and a pencil or two, mostly.)
Picture: "Prayerless Game". (I can't remember if I meant to call this picture "PLAYERLESS Game" instead, or if I was just being weird.)
(I just wrote this first poem today.)
Wonder Without Interconnection
---------------------------------
So as to ask us to be precise and trisected, ah,
I inflated, as did we, the circumspect cubes with
Their own actuality of substance. We alternated,
Placing our opponent's timidity within our mesh.
For, then, then the haphazardness overwhelmed us.
Then I drew straight dimensionless lines throughout
From perimeter to perimeter. I drew the angles
Tilted but not pivoting; yet they thrust themselves
Between the squares. *0*0*0* And we contemplated
This game's lack of water or mechanism.
We contained the rotation of our dreams
Within a column and a row both obtuse.
And then I crossed our previous edges, and
I became faulty, but so did we. Oh, we rose
To cast ourselves among these ruptures
Of wonder without interconnection, of
Distress without constituent, without stability.
===========
Unintentional Cards
--------------------
Unintentional cards were taken from their symmetry.
Each black and each white shard was placed
Upon this tabletop. I tasted the subdivision of
Such arrangement. For, I hid within the images
Of palindromes imagined. And she gazed onto
A preconceived line. She stared onto a row once
A column. And she detected among it
The circles of balance. And I, I found in her
The very same tableaux. In her permutation
I saw my own impossibility. Ah, she counted
The theorems I had remade. And then, then
I succumbed to her transliteration. I succumbed
To the game I had betrayed. She was
Oppressed by my dichotomy, yes. But I too
Enumerated unintentional cards. I too was clever.
++++++++
Vertices Non-Adjacent
------------------------
Imagined is the intermediate maze, a game
Made from numbers and aesthetic sleep.
Imagined is every dream of beauty's knife.
Imagined are the crumbs underneath this grid.
And I imagined the diagonal lines. They
Connected vertices to non-adjacent vertices.
Ah, I imagined the penciled polygons, these
Sections carved from squares. And I drew this
Derivation emerging, drew the protractor
Once a straightedge. And I imagined such
Fluid and salt converging upon the tapestry.
And there we partake in the conflict,
Partake in our own thoughts now imagining.
There we scribe the subtle intricacies
Onto paper plaid and blank. Then again these
Imagined rotations are abstract; they are
Bent into our finalities enumerated, into
Our visions each devoid of interpretation.
..................
Without Any Dream Of Dimension
---------------------------------
Etched into chaotic grids, the concave point
Curved beneath the vastness beyond it. Ah, this
Trajectory within us, it became strange; but
Yet it contained its very continuation.
Yes, integers against integers transformed it.
Then every atom of the paper page crumpled.
And that vertex condensed into its triteness.
For, I partake in the actuality of such
Mathematics. And I suppose that numbers
Divide into my calculation. But when I am
Demeaned by the grid -- a game invoked -- I
Become my own distress. I become again
But an uncertain dot; For, I am without
Any dream of dimension. I am without any
Superimposed blur perplexingly counterintuitive.
*************
Invisible Game
---------------
Upward, rightward, downward, upward again -- drawn is
This invisible game. For, it too is symmetric. It too
Is coiled into angles and lines, into arcs and
Polygons defined by their edgelessness. For, intersecting
Are the topologies never combined, never intersecting.
Indecisive are the grids of mismatched bifurcation,
Are the curving diameters of triangles subdivided.
So, into the maze, there the pencil scribes, tearing
At the perpendicularity of our strategies torn.
And we erase the retrograde distances we ignore.
But soon the square implodes, becoming the void
Underneath which we scrawl, scrawl both images and
Imagination upon such an aesthetic, upon
Such an invisible game forlorn, made into its
Nonexistence, into its inspiration
Of iridescent dimensions concocted.
##############
Dots Upon The Maze
--------------------
Precisely, this was not what it almost was,
A triangle barely actual. And yet we placed
The dots upon the maze. We did, as I recall,
So as to honor the squares, the triangles
Each not quite. For, at intersections undisturbed
Were these nonconformist vertices made. Yet they
Never concealed such thoughts. Then, finally,
The lines were drawn, upward and horizontally,
Then rightward and vertically. Still, I came to be
Vain, came to be impressed. Oh, in this completion
I saw triangles and triangles not exact, saw
Quadrilaterals and pentagons and maybe nothing more.
We counted the edges, counted the polygons,
Enumerated the depictions of enumeration.
But somehow the game was incomprehensible;
Somehow the wonder we imply was spitefully resolved.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Inexactly Drawn
-----------------
Drawn are the spheres each equal to my iris;
Drawn are these shadows upon the string,
Upon enlightenment and light. Drawn is again
The image of images; is the vision of metaphors.
Drawn is the glass, is the spark, is the water
Dripping into oblivion, into such categories
Of moisture.
And I drew the perpendicularly acute diagonals
Within the point itself within the vertex. And
I transformed curvature into seclusion, transformed
Scrawl redeemed into such formulae unmade.
And I drew the circle without center, drew it
Inside its own reciprocals and synapses, drew
The games' pronouncements onto dimensions
All elevated and lateral, all benign in their
Interpretations sketched intriguingly,
But inexactly drawn.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of Those Numbers Dreamt
-------------------------
Inaccurately I dispel the ink, placing it anew
Within each square that I count, that I contain.
Subdivided are the rows and columns into a
Ponderous mesh. For, I stare upon these finitudes.
And I strain to differ in such elongation, in such
Amplitudes. Oh, intermittent are the lines, these
Topologies of vertical versus horizontal.
Yet they coalesce about their zeroness. They
Clump about their bifurcation. Yes, the
Pencil and pen and paint subside, only to remain
In their flatness. Finally, we think of those
Numbers dreamt. Finally, it is determined
Which player of the game has transcended our
Conformity; it is determined what our boredom has
Resolved, has placed in balance among our lack
Of formulation.
oooooooooooo
This Game Of Forever
------------------------
This game of forever, it desires its depth,
It is determined to distract us from
The nebula of unpronounceable photons.
Do these remnants of slender glass
Defy the annuli drawn as if foreshortened?
Augmented it is by sultry light traced upon
The haphazard intersections of lines
And their incarnations, traced upon
Insipidness, upon drops of shattered space;
It is by coincidence denied but ever elusive,
But ever devoid of any astringent anagram
Except that which is our adjective,
Which is a game both miniscule and large,
Both convex and hidden within
The thickness of points randomly stale.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
This Game Of Edges
-------------------------
I understood, misunderstood, the similarity,
Knew that I had forgotten
That that is surrounded within such insignificance,
That was this game of edges.
Surrounded by, within, such color and number,
We prayed, we played, upon the clock,
Upon the chessboard disordered
And now shattering.
I understood this simplicity
To never equate equality
With analogy with matter
Or with pattern or images of image.
For images of images of games of the edges,
These, as is forgotten and explained,
These are but made from adjacency, from loneliness,
Despite the definitions of finality, of emptiest assumptions
As to what is the text of the rules
Of a game misshapen and mistook.
//////////
See the games that inspired these poems at:
http://gamesconceived.blogspot.com/
Picture: "Prayerless Game". (I can't remember if I meant to call this picture "PLAYERLESS Game" instead, or if I was just being weird.)
(I just wrote this first poem today.)
Wonder Without Interconnection
---------------------------------
So as to ask us to be precise and trisected, ah,
I inflated, as did we, the circumspect cubes with
Their own actuality of substance. We alternated,
Placing our opponent's timidity within our mesh.
For, then, then the haphazardness overwhelmed us.
Then I drew straight dimensionless lines throughout
From perimeter to perimeter. I drew the angles
Tilted but not pivoting; yet they thrust themselves
Between the squares. *0*0*0* And we contemplated
This game's lack of water or mechanism.
We contained the rotation of our dreams
Within a column and a row both obtuse.
And then I crossed our previous edges, and
I became faulty, but so did we. Oh, we rose
To cast ourselves among these ruptures
Of wonder without interconnection, of
Distress without constituent, without stability.
===========
Unintentional Cards
--------------------
Unintentional cards were taken from their symmetry.
Each black and each white shard was placed
Upon this tabletop. I tasted the subdivision of
Such arrangement. For, I hid within the images
Of palindromes imagined. And she gazed onto
A preconceived line. She stared onto a row once
A column. And she detected among it
The circles of balance. And I, I found in her
The very same tableaux. In her permutation
I saw my own impossibility. Ah, she counted
The theorems I had remade. And then, then
I succumbed to her transliteration. I succumbed
To the game I had betrayed. She was
Oppressed by my dichotomy, yes. But I too
Enumerated unintentional cards. I too was clever.
++++++++
Vertices Non-Adjacent
------------------------
Imagined is the intermediate maze, a game
Made from numbers and aesthetic sleep.
Imagined is every dream of beauty's knife.
Imagined are the crumbs underneath this grid.
And I imagined the diagonal lines. They
Connected vertices to non-adjacent vertices.
Ah, I imagined the penciled polygons, these
Sections carved from squares. And I drew this
Derivation emerging, drew the protractor
Once a straightedge. And I imagined such
Fluid and salt converging upon the tapestry.
And there we partake in the conflict,
Partake in our own thoughts now imagining.
There we scribe the subtle intricacies
Onto paper plaid and blank. Then again these
Imagined rotations are abstract; they are
Bent into our finalities enumerated, into
Our visions each devoid of interpretation.
..................
Without Any Dream Of Dimension
---------------------------------
Etched into chaotic grids, the concave point
Curved beneath the vastness beyond it. Ah, this
Trajectory within us, it became strange; but
Yet it contained its very continuation.
Yes, integers against integers transformed it.
Then every atom of the paper page crumpled.
And that vertex condensed into its triteness.
For, I partake in the actuality of such
Mathematics. And I suppose that numbers
Divide into my calculation. But when I am
Demeaned by the grid -- a game invoked -- I
Become my own distress. I become again
But an uncertain dot; For, I am without
Any dream of dimension. I am without any
Superimposed blur perplexingly counterintuitive.
*************
Invisible Game
---------------
Upward, rightward, downward, upward again -- drawn is
This invisible game. For, it too is symmetric. It too
Is coiled into angles and lines, into arcs and
Polygons defined by their edgelessness. For, intersecting
Are the topologies never combined, never intersecting.
Indecisive are the grids of mismatched bifurcation,
Are the curving diameters of triangles subdivided.
So, into the maze, there the pencil scribes, tearing
At the perpendicularity of our strategies torn.
And we erase the retrograde distances we ignore.
But soon the square implodes, becoming the void
Underneath which we scrawl, scrawl both images and
Imagination upon such an aesthetic, upon
Such an invisible game forlorn, made into its
Nonexistence, into its inspiration
Of iridescent dimensions concocted.
##############
Dots Upon The Maze
--------------------
Precisely, this was not what it almost was,
A triangle barely actual. And yet we placed
The dots upon the maze. We did, as I recall,
So as to honor the squares, the triangles
Each not quite. For, at intersections undisturbed
Were these nonconformist vertices made. Yet they
Never concealed such thoughts. Then, finally,
The lines were drawn, upward and horizontally,
Then rightward and vertically. Still, I came to be
Vain, came to be impressed. Oh, in this completion
I saw triangles and triangles not exact, saw
Quadrilaterals and pentagons and maybe nothing more.
We counted the edges, counted the polygons,
Enumerated the depictions of enumeration.
But somehow the game was incomprehensible;
Somehow the wonder we imply was spitefully resolved.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Inexactly Drawn
-----------------
Drawn are the spheres each equal to my iris;
Drawn are these shadows upon the string,
Upon enlightenment and light. Drawn is again
The image of images; is the vision of metaphors.
Drawn is the glass, is the spark, is the water
Dripping into oblivion, into such categories
Of moisture.
And I drew the perpendicularly acute diagonals
Within the point itself within the vertex. And
I transformed curvature into seclusion, transformed
Scrawl redeemed into such formulae unmade.
And I drew the circle without center, drew it
Inside its own reciprocals and synapses, drew
The games' pronouncements onto dimensions
All elevated and lateral, all benign in their
Interpretations sketched intriguingly,
But inexactly drawn.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of Those Numbers Dreamt
-------------------------
Inaccurately I dispel the ink, placing it anew
Within each square that I count, that I contain.
Subdivided are the rows and columns into a
Ponderous mesh. For, I stare upon these finitudes.
And I strain to differ in such elongation, in such
Amplitudes. Oh, intermittent are the lines, these
Topologies of vertical versus horizontal.
Yet they coalesce about their zeroness. They
Clump about their bifurcation. Yes, the
Pencil and pen and paint subside, only to remain
In their flatness. Finally, we think of those
Numbers dreamt. Finally, it is determined
Which player of the game has transcended our
Conformity; it is determined what our boredom has
Resolved, has placed in balance among our lack
Of formulation.
oooooooooooo
This Game Of Forever
------------------------
This game of forever, it desires its depth,
It is determined to distract us from
The nebula of unpronounceable photons.
Do these remnants of slender glass
Defy the annuli drawn as if foreshortened?
Augmented it is by sultry light traced upon
The haphazard intersections of lines
And their incarnations, traced upon
Insipidness, upon drops of shattered space;
It is by coincidence denied but ever elusive,
But ever devoid of any astringent anagram
Except that which is our adjective,
Which is a game both miniscule and large,
Both convex and hidden within
The thickness of points randomly stale.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
This Game Of Edges
-------------------------
I understood, misunderstood, the similarity,
Knew that I had forgotten
That that is surrounded within such insignificance,
That was this game of edges.
Surrounded by, within, such color and number,
We prayed, we played, upon the clock,
Upon the chessboard disordered
And now shattering.
I understood this simplicity
To never equate equality
With analogy with matter
Or with pattern or images of image.
For images of images of games of the edges,
These, as is forgotten and explained,
These are but made from adjacency, from loneliness,
Despite the definitions of finality, of emptiest assumptions
As to what is the text of the rules
Of a game misshapen and mistook.
//////////
See the games that inspired these poems at:
http://gamesconceived.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Entropy Becoming Misshapen
Today's theme: Entropy. (Since my last post to this blog was about inertia, I thought I would follow that post with a post about my other favorite physics concept.)
First picture: Entropy Of Convex Thought". Middle picture: "Enraged Entropy". Last picture: "Entropy Spilled Haphazardly".
(Note: I also have another picture, "Entropy Of A Butterfly", I wanted to share with you. But I will wait until I do a second post about butterflies to publish that picture.)
Depictions Of Megaphones
--------------------------
Oh,
Scream
Into The
Imagined air!
Outwardly, the breathful voice was expressed
Via and upon and within such coiled paper soothed.
Throughout the cone of curvature, I exploded
From point to pinnacle. Transposed, transformed,
The inert quanta became equilibrium and
Magic reshaped. Yet droplets fell onto these lips.
And ripples described the boundaries of fixation.
Oh, what are the intentions of entropy? For,
In our purpose is spoken those mathematics;
In our purpose are
Spoken the formulae and tableaux always intricate.
Spoken are the depictions of megaphones.
Oh, in their reverberation is our convexity.
In their resonance is our laughter,
Our laughter conceited in its pronunciation.
=======
The Convex Point Exposed
--------------------------
Indicative is the exception, a cusp among a line.
This edge is otherwise straight and conforming.
Yet there is but one dream expressed by
The polygon of single dimension. Oh, upon the
Inexact middle of the perimeter of all, there,
There is the epitome of entropy; there, there is
The convex point exposed.
And around this bulge, surrounding this prong,
An ellipsoid loop is bound by that
Which is within it. This curve mimics somehow
The distress of the line. But yet
It is enclosed, as are we, by its own
Meanderings. Oh, the line and the loop,
They intersect, but they are mutually distant.
And I wonder why I concern myself
With their strange choreography. I wonder
Why we too are as they, superficial
And actual in our protruding intentions.
++++++++++
Seen Upon A Concave Sphere
------------------------------
Seen upon a concave sphere is this bluest yellow,
Is this greenest magenta seen -- seen within
That dawn rotating is the placid sand we
Endure, we enclose in among our salvation.
Seen in delicate octahedra is such a crumb,
Is my own dreaming shell. And is the mind
Its madness; is the soul its own psychotic pangs?
Oh, seen in indecent ghosts explained, seen is
The thrice duplication of sparks proclaimed.
And known, known is the antagonism of this
Sultry amoeba that is our humanity. For we
See the circularity of entropy's riddles, see
The exploitation of sight yet voluminously
And cursively stricken.
..............
So As To Endure
-----------------
We once extracted the shudder from its cusp,
Once extracted amorphous metaphor from shape,
From isolation and beauty. And, ha, we once sought
That thoughtlessness coerced by our own dreams, once
Sought the awkwardness we embrace despite its
Existence misunderstood. Youth too enrages us; for
We shun the entropy of our aging resentment.
Because I shall somehow extract the night's embers
From day's static clouds, from dawn's strangeness.
For I shall somehow rejuvenate my contemplation
So as to embarrass such shivering substance, so as
To endure the savagery of our adulthood, so as to
Endure the fermenting skin we have forgiven.
Yet we haphazardly abstain from this convalescence.
ooooooooooo
Of Meaninglessness Haphazardly Incarnated
-------------------------------------------------
Such scrawl refuses to engulf my imagination, refuses
To reveal its origins. Such tangled conjecture
Expresses its dreams as simply afloat within
The drowning perfection coveted by truth,
Coveted by sanity reassured. Drawn is this
Summation divided, is this pivot of similarity.
Drawn is the withered imprecision, is that
Entropy devoted to its definition. And
We contemplate these magnitudes entwined
With their geometry. We contemplate such
Scrawl -- for it whispers the nonsense
Of mediocre riddles. For it wonders too
Regarding these assertions, regarding these aspects
Of meaninglessness haphazardly incarnated.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And Of Entropy
--------------------
The chaos imagined
By perfect order, it
Is this which it surrounds
:Entropy, so much has such
Imploded
As crumpled webs from
Spiders un-aglow, from silken lines
Created of only shadows.
: And of entropy,
Solely truth is apathetic
To this its own uncertainty,
Of perfect chaos, of imagined order
--Derived are these ironic integers each,
Each its confusion within,
Within the tangle of what is simplistic,
Of what is obvious.
*************
Entropy
-----------
My soul desires (for I am insane)
Entropy.
Ah, entropy is this inevitability to static,
To the randomness in which we would envision
Perfect order; yet
We are told we are and only I
Am mad, despite every Rorschach-test,
Despite every pundit's opining
And unprovable conjectures regarding
The divisibilities epitomized
By summations,
Despite conjectures of imaginary sight,
Of descent consistent unto ...
Unto an unstraight asymptote.
Ah, entropy is the misarrangement
Of the entirety of permutations
(Themselves each unjustified
{If not as simplest games});
It is dissolution and disillusionment
And distraction and beauty
Transformed (as death is beheld)
Into its very resentment.
And within, neither souls
Nor heaven
May attain anything so loved,
Anything so insanely desired,
But,
But perfection ....
Uncertain.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Into Entropy Itself Dissolving
------------------------------------
In an attempt to erase that single letter
At the beginning of the paragraph, but
At the end of some single sentence,
I scratched
At it with my claws, my talons filthy
And bloodied with disturbing imaginings.
And I only smeared every mistake-made
Into an opaque corpse upon the pages
Of reality’s eulogy, an epitaph
In transparent violet, in invisible red.
For such erroneous conception never
Was seen by its own irony ...
And that of this very inscription,
Of this very array of letters and
Punctuation all arranged erratically,
All in a most unbalanced descent
Into entropy itself dissolving.
""""""""""
Leroy Quet
First picture: Entropy Of Convex Thought". Middle picture: "Enraged Entropy". Last picture: "Entropy Spilled Haphazardly".
(Note: I also have another picture, "Entropy Of A Butterfly", I wanted to share with you. But I will wait until I do a second post about butterflies to publish that picture.)
Depictions Of Megaphones
--------------------------
Oh,
Scream
Into The
Imagined air!
Outwardly, the breathful voice was expressed
Via and upon and within such coiled paper soothed.
Throughout the cone of curvature, I exploded
From point to pinnacle. Transposed, transformed,
The inert quanta became equilibrium and
Magic reshaped. Yet droplets fell onto these lips.
And ripples described the boundaries of fixation.
Oh, what are the intentions of entropy? For,
In our purpose is spoken those mathematics;
In our purpose are
Spoken the formulae and tableaux always intricate.
Spoken are the depictions of megaphones.
Oh, in their reverberation is our convexity.
In their resonance is our laughter,
Our laughter conceited in its pronunciation.
=======
The Convex Point Exposed
--------------------------
Indicative is the exception, a cusp among a line.
This edge is otherwise straight and conforming.
Yet there is but one dream expressed by
The polygon of single dimension. Oh, upon the
Inexact middle of the perimeter of all, there,
There is the epitome of entropy; there, there is
The convex point exposed.
And around this bulge, surrounding this prong,
An ellipsoid loop is bound by that
Which is within it. This curve mimics somehow
The distress of the line. But yet
It is enclosed, as are we, by its own
Meanderings. Oh, the line and the loop,
They intersect, but they are mutually distant.
And I wonder why I concern myself
With their strange choreography. I wonder
Why we too are as they, superficial
And actual in our protruding intentions.
++++++++++
Seen Upon A Concave Sphere
------------------------------
Seen upon a concave sphere is this bluest yellow,
Is this greenest magenta seen -- seen within
That dawn rotating is the placid sand we
Endure, we enclose in among our salvation.
Seen in delicate octahedra is such a crumb,
Is my own dreaming shell. And is the mind
Its madness; is the soul its own psychotic pangs?
Oh, seen in indecent ghosts explained, seen is
The thrice duplication of sparks proclaimed.
And known, known is the antagonism of this
Sultry amoeba that is our humanity. For we
See the circularity of entropy's riddles, see
The exploitation of sight yet voluminously
And cursively stricken.
..............
So As To Endure
-----------------
We once extracted the shudder from its cusp,
Once extracted amorphous metaphor from shape,
From isolation and beauty. And, ha, we once sought
That thoughtlessness coerced by our own dreams, once
Sought the awkwardness we embrace despite its
Existence misunderstood. Youth too enrages us; for
We shun the entropy of our aging resentment.
Because I shall somehow extract the night's embers
From day's static clouds, from dawn's strangeness.
For I shall somehow rejuvenate my contemplation
So as to embarrass such shivering substance, so as
To endure the savagery of our adulthood, so as to
Endure the fermenting skin we have forgiven.
Yet we haphazardly abstain from this convalescence.
ooooooooooo
Of Meaninglessness Haphazardly Incarnated
-------------------------------------------------
Such scrawl refuses to engulf my imagination, refuses
To reveal its origins. Such tangled conjecture
Expresses its dreams as simply afloat within
The drowning perfection coveted by truth,
Coveted by sanity reassured. Drawn is this
Summation divided, is this pivot of similarity.
Drawn is the withered imprecision, is that
Entropy devoted to its definition. And
We contemplate these magnitudes entwined
With their geometry. We contemplate such
Scrawl -- for it whispers the nonsense
Of mediocre riddles. For it wonders too
Regarding these assertions, regarding these aspects
Of meaninglessness haphazardly incarnated.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And Of Entropy
--------------------
The chaos imagined
By perfect order, it
Is this which it surrounds
:Entropy, so much has such
Imploded
As crumpled webs from
Spiders un-aglow, from silken lines
Created of only shadows.
: And of entropy,
Solely truth is apathetic
To this its own uncertainty,
Of perfect chaos, of imagined order
--Derived are these ironic integers each,
Each its confusion within,
Within the tangle of what is simplistic,
Of what is obvious.
*************
Entropy
-----------
My soul desires (for I am insane)
Entropy.
Ah, entropy is this inevitability to static,
To the randomness in which we would envision
Perfect order; yet
We are told we are and only I
Am mad, despite every Rorschach-test,
Despite every pundit's opining
And unprovable conjectures regarding
The divisibilities epitomized
By summations,
Despite conjectures of imaginary sight,
Of descent consistent unto ...
Unto an unstraight asymptote.
Ah, entropy is the misarrangement
Of the entirety of permutations
(Themselves each unjustified
{If not as simplest games});
It is dissolution and disillusionment
And distraction and beauty
Transformed (as death is beheld)
Into its very resentment.
And within, neither souls
Nor heaven
May attain anything so loved,
Anything so insanely desired,
But,
But perfection ....
Uncertain.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Into Entropy Itself Dissolving
------------------------------------
In an attempt to erase that single letter
At the beginning of the paragraph, but
At the end of some single sentence,
I scratched
At it with my claws, my talons filthy
And bloodied with disturbing imaginings.
And I only smeared every mistake-made
Into an opaque corpse upon the pages
Of reality’s eulogy, an epitaph
In transparent violet, in invisible red.
For such erroneous conception never
Was seen by its own irony ...
And that of this very inscription,
Of this very array of letters and
Punctuation all arranged erratically,
All in a most unbalanced descent
Into entropy itself dissolving.
""""""""""
Leroy Quet
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Inert
Today's theme: Inertia.
First picture: "Inert Metaphor". Second picture: "Dominion Of The Inert". Last picture: "Inertia Perceived".
Each of the poems today is several years old.
If Only Barely
------------------
If only barely,
I am alone, I am this which is
The writer of concise rambles
Well-composed and psychotic and trite.
I am inert
And callous and searching,
Searching for a world in which,
In which it is never a necessity
To erase the edges.
And this searched-for world, it is aflame,
It is brilliantly a halo absorbing
Itself into fire's heat;
And then it rests until,
Until the eclipse of sky and ground
Contain and then converge,
If only, if only barely...
Barely my heart is beating,
And unpredictably so, it is,
Is nothing otherwise
But alone.
+++++++
The Hyperbola Devoid Of Asymptotes
------------------------------------
I was confused by that triangular crescent.
And I knew it has always been meaningless.
I knew that squares were subtly tilted so
As to be trapezoids each withering and
Yet aesthetic. I was confused, surely, by
The hyperbola devoid of asymptotes. Thus,
I beheld such shapes of my inarticulation,
And I remade them via the chaos within,
Within my hand and mind alike. Oh,
I licked the lemniscates. And it hid.
It rotated until its duplication, until
All the cusps had bifurcated. In this inertia
I am an image self-intersecting; in this
Triangle curved into a crescent, I am provoked,
I am formed into an amorphous blur
By my ridiculous inexactness.
=======
Inert Is The Riddle
------------------------
Inert is time's ambiguous expression, is this
Redemption of impure diagonality. I forgot
Such imaginings tritely devout. I forgot
Those prayers surreal in their truncation.
And that thirst counters its hunger, the
Starvation which too is the dripping enumeration
We convey. Oh, inert is the riddle that descends
Unto Its purpose,
Its purpose as our salve for the strangeness
We subject to our constriction, to our madness.
Inert is the circle within us, within each
Polygon of rotation, within that deformed saliva.
For tilted too are those inconsistencies we deny.
..............
Spectacular Inertia
--------------------------
Spectacular inertia mends its timid whispers,
Transforming purity into perfection into
Empty and cosmic despair, into the lens
From where imagination becomes ourselves,
Becomes what is oblique yet blurred.
Oh, spectrums incarnate divide amongst this
Abstract abacus of punctured simultaneousness,
Divide among the atoms of refraction alluring.
And these putrid slices of amazement, they
Quell the superposition of madness, of
Artificial perception still perceived,
Still without shape or any other measurement.
*************
Becoming The Inertia
-------------------------
I become my inertia, become the subtle carcass
Of my remembered future, of our hungry and
Forgotten minds. I placate this spit,
Plagiarize this composition of cacophony
And anger. I then recreate the death
Of stillborn night, of daylight ascertained
To once be pure, to once be impenetrable
And reassuring. And I retaliate against
Those inflections. I then reject only this
Which is illegible, which is unread because
Of its obscene reverberation among what
Is our simplest droplet of misunderstanding,
Is of such wine tasting of entropy --
For it too is indifferent.
ooooooooooo
Of Dimmest Inertia
------------------------
This, too, is a cobweb spun
And containing none but emptiness.
This is too my everything
Of zero.
Oh,
These which are mazes
Of dimmest inertia,
They are solely myself
Absolute and severed;
There above dreamt sight,
There seen by only night lit
And never again imagined,
I have woken unto a solidity
Silken,
Sticky, entwined, ever
A tangle
Of scribbled worlds and stone
Existing so as to equal its own
Permanency.
''''''''''''''''''
Only
------
Cold and untelling,
Untold and yet yelling,
So were these emptinesses
Each
To be mine alone.
I need to be free
Within my prison;
I need to be real
Within my vision.
I need those spirals to implode;
I need this condemning
(This collapse)
To remain (as rhymes finish),
To be mine ... alone.
Complete and desired only
Were each reality isolated,
Was every world its own,
As I have hoped my spirit
Solid
To be, to be mine:
Mine alone.
Forever, ...such was this
Much too skewed,
Too inert, purposefully never
(And, so therefore) purposeful
(Or rude),
Forever, such were we
Forgetting, and resentfully so,
The angels ..... the anger - -
From any otherness,
From my very own.
{Repeat previous line once},
I need to be hidden,
Separated, unknown.
I, as destined again,
Need to be
Mine, only mine,
Only {repeat 'only' infinitely often} ...
Only ... alone.
*
---
Leroy Quet
First picture: "Inert Metaphor". Second picture: "Dominion Of The Inert". Last picture: "Inertia Perceived".
Each of the poems today is several years old.
If Only Barely
------------------
If only barely,
I am alone, I am this which is
The writer of concise rambles
Well-composed and psychotic and trite.
I am inert
And callous and searching,
Searching for a world in which,
In which it is never a necessity
To erase the edges.
And this searched-for world, it is aflame,
It is brilliantly a halo absorbing
Itself into fire's heat;
And then it rests until,
Until the eclipse of sky and ground
Contain and then converge,
If only, if only barely...
Barely my heart is beating,
And unpredictably so, it is,
Is nothing otherwise
But alone.
+++++++
The Hyperbola Devoid Of Asymptotes
------------------------------------
I was confused by that triangular crescent.
And I knew it has always been meaningless.
I knew that squares were subtly tilted so
As to be trapezoids each withering and
Yet aesthetic. I was confused, surely, by
The hyperbola devoid of asymptotes. Thus,
I beheld such shapes of my inarticulation,
And I remade them via the chaos within,
Within my hand and mind alike. Oh,
I licked the lemniscates. And it hid.
It rotated until its duplication, until
All the cusps had bifurcated. In this inertia
I am an image self-intersecting; in this
Triangle curved into a crescent, I am provoked,
I am formed into an amorphous blur
By my ridiculous inexactness.
=======
Inert Is The Riddle
------------------------
Inert is time's ambiguous expression, is this
Redemption of impure diagonality. I forgot
Such imaginings tritely devout. I forgot
Those prayers surreal in their truncation.
And that thirst counters its hunger, the
Starvation which too is the dripping enumeration
We convey. Oh, inert is the riddle that descends
Unto Its purpose,
Its purpose as our salve for the strangeness
We subject to our constriction, to our madness.
Inert is the circle within us, within each
Polygon of rotation, within that deformed saliva.
For tilted too are those inconsistencies we deny.
..............
Spectacular Inertia
--------------------------
Spectacular inertia mends its timid whispers,
Transforming purity into perfection into
Empty and cosmic despair, into the lens
From where imagination becomes ourselves,
Becomes what is oblique yet blurred.
Oh, spectrums incarnate divide amongst this
Abstract abacus of punctured simultaneousness,
Divide among the atoms of refraction alluring.
And these putrid slices of amazement, they
Quell the superposition of madness, of
Artificial perception still perceived,
Still without shape or any other measurement.
*************
Becoming The Inertia
-------------------------
I become my inertia, become the subtle carcass
Of my remembered future, of our hungry and
Forgotten minds. I placate this spit,
Plagiarize this composition of cacophony
And anger. I then recreate the death
Of stillborn night, of daylight ascertained
To once be pure, to once be impenetrable
And reassuring. And I retaliate against
Those inflections. I then reject only this
Which is illegible, which is unread because
Of its obscene reverberation among what
Is our simplest droplet of misunderstanding,
Is of such wine tasting of entropy --
For it too is indifferent.
ooooooooooo
Of Dimmest Inertia
------------------------
This, too, is a cobweb spun
And containing none but emptiness.
This is too my everything
Of zero.
Oh,
These which are mazes
Of dimmest inertia,
They are solely myself
Absolute and severed;
There above dreamt sight,
There seen by only night lit
And never again imagined,
I have woken unto a solidity
Silken,
Sticky, entwined, ever
A tangle
Of scribbled worlds and stone
Existing so as to equal its own
Permanency.
''''''''''''''''''
Only
------
Cold and untelling,
Untold and yet yelling,
So were these emptinesses
Each
To be mine alone.
I need to be free
Within my prison;
I need to be real
Within my vision.
I need those spirals to implode;
I need this condemning
(This collapse)
To remain (as rhymes finish),
To be mine ... alone.
Complete and desired only
Were each reality isolated,
Was every world its own,
As I have hoped my spirit
Solid
To be, to be mine:
Mine alone.
Forever, ...such was this
Much too skewed,
Too inert, purposefully never
(And, so therefore) purposeful
(Or rude),
Forever, such were we
Forgetting, and resentfully so,
The angels ..... the anger - -
From any otherness,
From my very own.
{Repeat previous line once},
I need to be hidden,
Separated, unknown.
I, as destined again,
Need to be
Mine, only mine,
Only {repeat 'only' infinitely often} ...
Only ... alone.
*
---
Leroy Quet
Saturday, December 6, 2008
The Annulus Encircled
Today's theme: Tori, annuli, rings. (Tori is the plural of Torus, and a torus is the doughnut shape. Annuli is the plural of annulus, which is a ring, sometimes denotes a two-dimensional torus.)
First picture: "Artificial Vastness". Second picture: "Observe". Third picture: "Ring Of Invisible Dawn". Fourth picture: "An Annulus Subsiding". And last picture: "Axis Spilled".
Despite The Torus
-------------------
Despite the torus, among this dichotomy seen
Was all that is displaced by the curl, by
The essence of assumptions made true.
And in this ring was such magnification,
Was sad light and humorous electricity.
Inside the hollow of this annulus was drawn
The flames of metamorphosis, was drawn
The magnetism once thrust through
These wires and coils and pivots spinning.
Oh, thoughts of implosions reoccur simply
As I run and fly upward. And then
The machine contorts truncated time; it
Conjoins the certainty of our reality's
Constituents. And it composes the voices
Of this posture, composes the subtext
Of exactness without edges, without
Any beheld representation.
=========
Entropy Withers
----------------
Half torn, fully crushed, this purity of space-time
Engulfs us anew. Seemingly we spill the protrusions
Back against the delicate floor.
Entropy withers; it reiterates its dire task.
Empathy whispers; and then we flee the dream.
And then we flee the containment of truth.
Oh, we flutter in our sad frustration. But
We exaggerate our jaggedness, for it is stained.
And we tear the hollowness and become it.
We rip the tangles from these atoms and quarks.
And we ascend into the annulus within us.
We hoist our begging brains through this
Pit inside our imagination. And, furthermore, we
Extract from our longing the patterns and enigmas.
Then we pass, until all is behind us, until
Our water is fluid, until it is again tilted
By its own passive suggestion.
++++++++++++
Tapered Spinning
-------------------
Such perspective is contained inside
Its distant center, within again its edge --
Its edge: The thickening and evolving point
Of equilateral appendages, of subdivided
And intersected radii formed from their beginning,
Formed from the very middle of this turning,
Of this constancy invoked then hidden.
And that image is collapsing into the coarseness
Which surrounds a bisected and vanishing annulus.
That parable is shrinking into the heights
Of our suppositions, is shrinking from
This origin of sacrosanct perpendicularism,
From the tapered spinning of that repetition,
Of this recollection captive within its expression.
...........
Those Annuli Elongated
---------------------------
Perpendicular, beautiful, invisible, obscured; oh,
Each edifice of envisioned dawn, it achieves
Its expansion despite the minutia equal to its blood.
Such encloses the seed within that glass, within
The vials of circles and refraction. Oh, each
Molecule of angry light, it is the spiral inside,
Inside where I have endured, where I have erased
The cursive perspectives of our lapse. Yet, yet
Perpendicular is the flower; for it tilts imperfectly.
Beautiful is the contemplated rain; for it forgets.
Invisible is the sky, because it is our observation.
And obscured, obscured is the dream by itself --
Yes, it has surrendered the shredded scrawl
To those ceasing sparks of innocence, to precisely
Those annuli elongated but perplexingly undefined.
~~~~~~~~~~~
The Rings Transposed
-----------------------
The rings transposed -- from white to black,
Left to right -- black to white, right to left.
Oh, unchanged is the image within its position.
Unchanged is absolution and abstraction. Ha.
I am hideous beauty. I am the changer
Of such rings, perhaps. Perhaps I am the other,
I am the other perception remaining.
Perhaps I am the transparence of these
Annuli. For in their desires I am
Observed -- I am the divisive rotation made
From left wrongly right, from right
Incorrectly left, from the inexact appearances
Of this inversion, of this enlightenment dim
But always as strange as
Any of these forgotten crescendos.
ooooooooooo
The Semicircle Evokes
-----------------------
Compressed and stained, the crescent passing
Through the ring is our evolution, is its
Own meandering expression. Against the inside
Of this torus, the concave embodiment
Turns and reiterates its flatness. Yet it is
Plush and voluminous. It is the prong,
Is the plaid, is the ascendance within itself.
Oh, compressed and stagnant, the semicircle
Evokes its scribbled asymmetry, evokes its
Amorphous truth now obvious, now implied.
And nothing is determined or ascertained via
This tableau. Although reality imagines
It to be halved; but I imagine it to be
Trisected. But we imagine it to be absolute
In its entirety, in its worthiness devoid
Of any antecedent.
**********
Three-Fourths
---------------
Three-fourths a ring without center, without
Any hole but the single point in amongst me --
I look upon such a torus. And in it is
The arc of triangular cosmos, is the coil
Of concurrent shape. And I cling to this
Dichotomy of unpredictable darkness. For it
Is erect, rising from the tableau. It is
And incomplete, yet beautiful, circle, is but an
Ellipse compressed and punctured. Oh, I am
Obsessed with the images of symmetry and,
Therefore, of asymmetry. I am as opaque as
All reality. And I touch the substance; I am
Touched by these sharp cusps. Ah, I am
Enumerated, as are all perplexing assumptions.
And I formulate my dreams from three-fourths
Of this concentric truth yet specious but
Restlessly sculpted and then, afterwards, conceived.
##############
Edges Of The Torus
-------------------------
I saw every irrational number expressed
In terms of itself, each finding an unexpected
Purpose, an unreal implication, within
The lattice, the grid containing all
Colors, yet somehow none still.
And none, nothing is the thoughts’ motivation,
Not a fragment of any state of this
Computer, this mind we have come to
Know, nothing at all finally explores
The edges of the torus, the vertexes
Of the knot intertwined with every
Abstraction, every simple design
Representing the entire vacuum.
And my awareness gasps for knowledge,
Fears the suffocation of ignorance.
So I gaze at the focal-point in hopes
That all reciprocals summed would
Still ironically find their finite limit,
In hopes that all integers are ultimately
Equal to one, equal to zero finding
Its once-hidden substance.
""""""""""""""""""
Drawing Rings
------------------
I draw the rings around us,
I take my dream and surround us.
I understand the photons only,
I have been rendered so lonely.
I ask the questions invisible,
I ask the riddles unseen,
I speak the colors encircled,
I speak of madness quite mean.
You come to me and then hide,
You move through doors inside.
You ever make your own sight,
You always take dimmest night.
You draw the rings around us,
You once saw the images in glass,
You might somehow gaze inward,
But your world, your stars, now they pass,
...Oh, they always indeed do pass.
---
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
First picture: "Artificial Vastness". Second picture: "Observe". Third picture: "Ring Of Invisible Dawn". Fourth picture: "An Annulus Subsiding". And last picture: "Axis Spilled".
Despite The Torus
-------------------
Despite the torus, among this dichotomy seen
Was all that is displaced by the curl, by
The essence of assumptions made true.
And in this ring was such magnification,
Was sad light and humorous electricity.
Inside the hollow of this annulus was drawn
The flames of metamorphosis, was drawn
The magnetism once thrust through
These wires and coils and pivots spinning.
Oh, thoughts of implosions reoccur simply
As I run and fly upward. And then
The machine contorts truncated time; it
Conjoins the certainty of our reality's
Constituents. And it composes the voices
Of this posture, composes the subtext
Of exactness without edges, without
Any beheld representation.
=========
Entropy Withers
----------------
Half torn, fully crushed, this purity of space-time
Engulfs us anew. Seemingly we spill the protrusions
Back against the delicate floor.
Entropy withers; it reiterates its dire task.
Empathy whispers; and then we flee the dream.
And then we flee the containment of truth.
Oh, we flutter in our sad frustration. But
We exaggerate our jaggedness, for it is stained.
And we tear the hollowness and become it.
We rip the tangles from these atoms and quarks.
And we ascend into the annulus within us.
We hoist our begging brains through this
Pit inside our imagination. And, furthermore, we
Extract from our longing the patterns and enigmas.
Then we pass, until all is behind us, until
Our water is fluid, until it is again tilted
By its own passive suggestion.
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Tapered Spinning
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Such perspective is contained inside
Its distant center, within again its edge --
Its edge: The thickening and evolving point
Of equilateral appendages, of subdivided
And intersected radii formed from their beginning,
Formed from the very middle of this turning,
Of this constancy invoked then hidden.
And that image is collapsing into the coarseness
Which surrounds a bisected and vanishing annulus.
That parable is shrinking into the heights
Of our suppositions, is shrinking from
This origin of sacrosanct perpendicularism,
From the tapered spinning of that repetition,
Of this recollection captive within its expression.
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Those Annuli Elongated
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Perpendicular, beautiful, invisible, obscured; oh,
Each edifice of envisioned dawn, it achieves
Its expansion despite the minutia equal to its blood.
Such encloses the seed within that glass, within
The vials of circles and refraction. Oh, each
Molecule of angry light, it is the spiral inside,
Inside where I have endured, where I have erased
The cursive perspectives of our lapse. Yet, yet
Perpendicular is the flower; for it tilts imperfectly.
Beautiful is the contemplated rain; for it forgets.
Invisible is the sky, because it is our observation.
And obscured, obscured is the dream by itself --
Yes, it has surrendered the shredded scrawl
To those ceasing sparks of innocence, to precisely
Those annuli elongated but perplexingly undefined.
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The Rings Transposed
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The rings transposed -- from white to black,
Left to right -- black to white, right to left.
Oh, unchanged is the image within its position.
Unchanged is absolution and abstraction. Ha.
I am hideous beauty. I am the changer
Of such rings, perhaps. Perhaps I am the other,
I am the other perception remaining.
Perhaps I am the transparence of these
Annuli. For in their desires I am
Observed -- I am the divisive rotation made
From left wrongly right, from right
Incorrectly left, from the inexact appearances
Of this inversion, of this enlightenment dim
But always as strange as
Any of these forgotten crescendos.
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The Semicircle Evokes
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Compressed and stained, the crescent passing
Through the ring is our evolution, is its
Own meandering expression. Against the inside
Of this torus, the concave embodiment
Turns and reiterates its flatness. Yet it is
Plush and voluminous. It is the prong,
Is the plaid, is the ascendance within itself.
Oh, compressed and stagnant, the semicircle
Evokes its scribbled asymmetry, evokes its
Amorphous truth now obvious, now implied.
And nothing is determined or ascertained via
This tableau. Although reality imagines
It to be halved; but I imagine it to be
Trisected. But we imagine it to be absolute
In its entirety, in its worthiness devoid
Of any antecedent.
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Three-Fourths
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Three-fourths a ring without center, without
Any hole but the single point in amongst me --
I look upon such a torus. And in it is
The arc of triangular cosmos, is the coil
Of concurrent shape. And I cling to this
Dichotomy of unpredictable darkness. For it
Is erect, rising from the tableau. It is
And incomplete, yet beautiful, circle, is but an
Ellipse compressed and punctured. Oh, I am
Obsessed with the images of symmetry and,
Therefore, of asymmetry. I am as opaque as
All reality. And I touch the substance; I am
Touched by these sharp cusps. Ah, I am
Enumerated, as are all perplexing assumptions.
And I formulate my dreams from three-fourths
Of this concentric truth yet specious but
Restlessly sculpted and then, afterwards, conceived.
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Edges Of The Torus
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I saw every irrational number expressed
In terms of itself, each finding an unexpected
Purpose, an unreal implication, within
The lattice, the grid containing all
Colors, yet somehow none still.
And none, nothing is the thoughts’ motivation,
Not a fragment of any state of this
Computer, this mind we have come to
Know, nothing at all finally explores
The edges of the torus, the vertexes
Of the knot intertwined with every
Abstraction, every simple design
Representing the entire vacuum.
And my awareness gasps for knowledge,
Fears the suffocation of ignorance.
So I gaze at the focal-point in hopes
That all reciprocals summed would
Still ironically find their finite limit,
In hopes that all integers are ultimately
Equal to one, equal to zero finding
Its once-hidden substance.
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Drawing Rings
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I draw the rings around us,
I take my dream and surround us.
I understand the photons only,
I have been rendered so lonely.
I ask the questions invisible,
I ask the riddles unseen,
I speak the colors encircled,
I speak of madness quite mean.
You come to me and then hide,
You move through doors inside.
You ever make your own sight,
You always take dimmest night.
You draw the rings around us,
You once saw the images in glass,
You might somehow gaze inward,
But your world, your stars, now they pass,
...Oh, they always indeed do pass.
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Thanks,
Leroy Quet
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