Pictures
& Poems #8
Sef alias -//\\- has made some
wonderful poems to some of my pictures.
Here's a
collection.
Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
That one did not "go gently into that good night..."
It's as if some terrible calamity struck.
The battle raged on;
Blood ran like but thicker than water
until the earth was soaked red, yet
still that one did not concede defeat.
With unseeing eyes wide open
only he knows what it is he sees
Not one grain of sand is left
with which to bury his will
for that one was forced to give up his life
Long before he'd had his fill.
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
This one's Thinking
Thinking of Cloudland Canyon
About the waterfall falling
Into the Pool, the little round pool
Down in the bottom of the canyon
Filled with the heat of swirling ice-cold water
Churned up into whiteness by the agitation
Of that sweet, clean, clear falling water tumbling
down so chaotically upon, into, among, over, around,
Rocks.
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Stone is stone is stone
Plants put down their roots in stone
Mind is open sky
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Meeting the Antiquity (The Nose)
by Lars
She exists in time
She's nothing special, she thinks
Doing daily chores
This old woman came from Trace
She lives in Antiquity
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
In letting go, getting lost
In Antiquity
Many scenes passed
A journey ended here:
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
Hordes of humanity
Made of one made of dust
Not just dust to dust,
But never ending processions
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
When you zoom in on them like that
It's plain to see all those people are dust
like everything
A bunch of dust floating around in space,
How come minds make dirt look like people?
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
I couldn't help but notice her lips
how beautiful they are.
how perfectly shaped her lips
as is her whole being and
how rock-solid,
down-to-earth dependable
is Aphrodite!
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
This one TAKES THE CAKE!!!
somehow you made this one come to LIFE!!!
no, it is not changed from
lifeless stone to flesh and blood.
it's still stone, but it's living stone.
Those eyes! Just look at the eyes.
I know only one eye is showing, but there definitely is
TWO..we can know there's two
(the look of that eye is totally fascinating.)
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
I wonder how to manipulate trees into being people...
Too beautiful for words
Are trees and people
It's like the people are trees
And the trees are people
Limbs and roots and veins and eyes
Rivers of fluids flowing
Standing tall and strong and alive
Each from it's seed be growing.
Into the earth invisible roots
Go deep and far and wide
Into the sky go limbs and leaves
Laying bones and flesh aside
Yet the circles go 'round and around
'Round and around they run,
People, trees, sunrise, sunset,
One be all and all be one.
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
"You have a heart of stone,"
they said.
"Yes, It's true I do,"
said I.
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
Transition
Where there before
Was only stone
Life slowly seeps in
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
In the middle of the night:
Household quiet and still
He lies awake in the dark
His mind a churning mill
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Meeting the Antiquity
by Lars
Eventually every stone will crumble,
and when we Meet the Antiquity,
it is the future we greet
We could look with every ounce of
intensity we possess all day long, and
we would still never see all there is
there to see.
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