PR-386
The Entire Universe Dances on the Head
That the infinitesimal speck
That was before the big bang
Led to the many tons of matter
In the universe is mysterious how
Did that much fit into so little?
And I wonder if it’s because
That much isn’t so much
After all
It does prove
That the entire universe dances
On the head of a does it not
Pin?
PR-701 (Published In Ashe: the Journal of Experimental Spirituality)
The Great Symbolism of Electricity
It’s a nice feeling
Being in charge like
One of those particles
Yes the metaphysical
Analogue:
The great symbolism of electricity
The angels have two polar wings
And lightning is mere metaphor
For a symptom of that
And yet our hearts are divine
Instruments cunning little
Lightning rod transformers
Making safe the conduction
Of large quantities
Of God
New PR-211
Signals From a High Tide
I admire the old scientists
Who puzzled out phenomena
With their relentless observation
And clever hypotheses
They set a good example
For example I wonder about happiness
If it’s a sort of radiation
Like sunlight or more Roentgen because
I have felt it penetrating my bones
Infusing the spaces in my heart
Where the roses grow
(Such as thirst for light)
Yet this connotes an externality
And happiness is from within
So the sages say
And if this seems paradox there’s a precedent
Since light is both a particle and a wave:
Maybe the particles penetrate
And the waves are signals from a high tide
That reaches for the moon
New PR-229
The Dust of Stars
“The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects,
just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends,
it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the
line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited.
One end is man, the other end is God.”
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Have you ever studied soap?
It’s the most fascinating thing
Not just for the science
But also for the simile:
Soap molecules are long strands
With different stuff at different ends
One end is fat-philic
The other sticks to water
So between the two
They lick your platter clean
We are like soap bars
Maybe that’s why cleanliness
Was next to godliness:
One end of us attracts the earth
And the other end
Attracts the dust of stars
New PR-239
What We Are Really Doing Here
“A thing can be explained only by what is more subtle
than itself: there is nothing subtler than love:
by what then, shall love be explained?”
-Abu ‘L–Hasan Sumnun (Circa 1100 A.D.)
It’s almost as if each person especially or
Yes merely
Event but it seems to have sent
Out advance feelers
Is the only word I can think
Of since there are really not words
For such (lacking subtitles) subtlety
But what an interesting concept!
An advance scout mechanism
To announce imminent presence
Pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be
Which shows that it exists in gradient phases
And each one being more or less than
What resonates with the heart and so
There is then conflict:
(As opposed to now conflict)
A diction-defying friction sets off a wind
Differential which is the principle of a battery
And then the delicious corollary irony:
What we are really doing here
Is making us all scientists