Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Trees


We get lost, in the study of trees 

      or deeply admire them

              for their form and substance.

But, to a bird flying through a grove,

       the solid branches define and frame

               the beloved open spaces 

they traverse and inhabit.


How joyful to see 

        that a tree is a gesture of play,

               made by a field of energy 

extending into form and substance,

        and that the tree’s branches,

                 and that the spaces defined by them,

are all one thing; 

         like a tree-idea-bubble with a membrane 

                 which allows birds to pass through, 

                         along with our awed awareness

of its existence.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Images From....Where?





The universe resonates in a bandwidth frequency that corresponds to a point just on the benevolent side of truly benign:   

Like the undulating respiration of a pelagic jellyfish adrift just below the surface, commingled on the retina with myriad shards of shimmering sunlight from water ripples, the modal rhythm of all that exists is a kind of breathing into and out of a dazzling, variable depth of field.  Held and fixed in fascination by vague recognition of a timeless pattern,  a welcoming sense of familiarity abides.  

Looking into the water, or into a fire, or into a flower bloom, fleetingly-distinguishable impulses of this vibrant, dynamic ebb and flow merge together as bursting fireworks weave into and out of one another, blossoming and receding as they descend.

Sparks erupt from a source fire, ascend and fade into the dark. Obeying draft currents, they filter down from the sky as ash introduced to the soil.  The soil beckons a fallen seed to burst with a re-formed spark of life into the soil community.  It becomes and thrives into maturity by converting, storing and releasing vast amounts of the sun’s radiant energy.  The sun, "our" primal ball of source fire sets in motion all of the biosphere’s chemical choreography.

The soil is an organized energy system, like the complex of cell colonies in a jellyfish or any other energy form imbued with the spark of sentient life.  Each cell is coded for operation with relational intelligence corresponding to the intelligence in all other cells.  On the molecular scale, they are locked in a binary dance of positive and negative electro-chemical charges.  It is a composition of movement just on the artistic side of mathematical.  

Linked structures of molecular charges are altered by electro-magnetic waves of various frequencies.  Molecular charges are also altered by a host of introduced chemicals that catalyze reactive forces.  Reversed polarity on any scale ripples in all dimensions, toggling particle-charges, rapid-fire along the way.

Every imaginable thing, and every imaginable non-thing, is necessarily present in an infinite universe - a limitless set.   This must include the birth and simultaneous death of an infinite number of universes.  Of course, the mind cannot go very far in this direction and retrieve anything meaningful to relate.

Are all these exuberant imaginings autonomously conjured?  Or, might they be perceptions revealed by a universe that resonates in a bandwidth frequency that corresponds to a point just on the benevolent side of truly benign. 

With all mustered sapience, triangulate your position and bearing from the dual beacons of fact and fiction, of sense and beyond sense, of matter and energy, and enjoy the voyage.