Our Silent Third
the silent third
in every nocturnal twist
mirrored mute
distant voyeur
avowed
to silence
sacrificed to night
devoid of judgment
a second-hand spectrum
for the transmission
of sweet nothings
an uncertain kiss
slowly amplifies
sustains
a temporary
certainty
she only ever
reflects back
what has already
been seen
atmospheric
diffusion
materializes the dream
crescents
waning and waxing
a new moon wink
enjoy the dark cover
Luna hides within the self delusion of the shadow self
an insistence of the universal consciousness that we reach out
flirt with cold shivers and sharpe lancer
bathe within the warm embrace
of the flow that comes
from each wound
ripples and wave
depth and glare
tattoos
blood letting
an exposed, ribbed shore
to nurture the little things
of remembrance
fortunate moon
in her somnambulist state
she never knows longing
never feels your absence
so certain of the return
of light
our silent third
Chimney falls as lovers blaze
I thought that I was young
Now I've freezing hands
And bloodless veins
As numb as I've become
I'm so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight
How will you know if you've found me at last?
'Cause I'll be the one be the one be the one
With my heart in my lap
Performed by Neko Case
Written by Merle Travis, Ned Fairchild
This Divide
close to the second
that isn't
the air shimmers
slipstreams cut swathes
terrestrial wormholes
vibrational tunnels
through the black
the unseen
the wind
wraps a cool hand
wrestling the heat
from greying adobe walls
baked earth and tired bones
the decay whisked away
lost and transformed
in toric flow
everything turns in
on itself
electrons vibrate
it’s an uproar
experienced only
in the dark mirror
sparks light up the illusion
open a fissure
in the great divide
shifting, phasing in and out
the man of numbers
with the staticky hair
reminds
we can’t go fast enough
to recreate this time
this divide will never come again
43
Time exists only in the mind
Never uttering a sound
Yet naught can escape
Its call to evolve, build, and decay
Nothing is invulnerable to its touch
Yet it passes without a footstep
Leaving its mark on all
Link to Spoken Word
Teach without treading upon
Act without bluster
Time will see to the rest
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Words and Images are my own unless otherwise indicated.
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Beautiful poetry. :)
I liked pretty much all of it, though this part here really caught my attention and made me think!
"sustains
a temporary
certainty"
I love when poetry can touch on both sides of a potential duality, but here it was at least three times that I'm aware of and it really made me curious and contemplative.
Also, I learned a new word! Toric. :) I love learning new words.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you
I find myself very much drawn to Taoist philosophy and unseen connections. A surreal and symbolic understanding of our world.
Toric is a good word and possibility the shape to our universe:) It's a donut:)
You're welcome! Oh? I've been finding myself leaning more in that direction recently as well! There's so much ancient wisdom to be found if we look that is so powerful and relevant today. And ah... I've heard others talk about similar in regard to the torus and the universe, interesting to think about!
Yes ... our minds work in metaphor and run our understanding through whatever it is we have gained knowledge of. Going back to the occurrences of the last year. I spend a lot of time in post-secondary study and so I saw everything from a science and social science perspectives. A friends grandmother (who also lived through the holocaust) saw those jabs as the sign of the devil.
Hear me out ... I don't think that, but I think her mind framed it that way to warn her.They are taken into ones body way more than any communion and those that took it believed it was a 'saviour' and it had people turning on their fellow humans who did not take it. Every day we learn more that it is dangerous and false saviour. So from a symbolic point of view it was stop on. That same friend had a dream(he is still not awake but boy are we trying to wake him up) that I was a Black Widow type super hero trying to take down an authoritarian world government and he had been brainwashed and joined them. This was before the WEF became commonly discussed. He is one of the best people I know but not trust his mind.
It is what Jung referred to as the collective unconsciousness, not yet proven by science and so disregarded. But it is there.
I think another way to say it is that our minds work in symbols, or "pictures", but then yes I agree we turn those pictures and symbols into metaphors and it's really quite fascinating when you get down to some of those "nuts and bolts" so to speak, some of the most basic seeming things.
I don't necessarily see things in light of God and the Devil, but I don't deny it either as I'm not able to prove it one way or the other so I try to stay as open minded as possible and I generally agree with your sentiments.
That's a cool dream your friend had! :)
I think there's a lot of interesting symbolism in dreams as well, but that's a whole other subject!
But, yes... I think it is related to the collective unconsciousness, or some might describe it in other ways like the collective consciousness or the Akashic Records or numerous other things.
Interesting stuff for sure!
For me sounds and words are more impactful. I absolutely think in words. But yes, I think it true for most that they think in images. My dreams are a meld of energy (feeling) and images though.
Well, I've actually thought about that before and in my opinion words are pictures. And, even sound has picture or symbolic shape to it even if we can't see it with our eyes. I'm sure you're probably aware of cymatics? I'm definitely open minded to the possibility that we think in things other than pictures/symbols, but... I'm not very sure or aware of how that might work and I think virtually everything can be reduced to a symbol or a picture or a set of "information", interesting to think about though whatever the truth is!
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