Villanelle: the Poietics of Being

Villanelle : The Poietics* of Being This World and All that we see and cannot Came into being without warning With its Past and Future replete with plot There’s no such thing as the Present in slot For there’d be no one to see in Yijing* This World and All that we see and cannot Those that want to see this World in their cot Give it incomplete myth and beginning With its Past and Future replete with plot That’s why it’s endless and far too way out Made to elude any true mind’s probing This World and All that we see and cannot Break this eternal chain: the sexual knot And the Yang will allay the Yin binding With its Past and Future replete with plot No Heaven will be claimed by senseless clot Mindless matter will then clash clang and cling This World and All that we see and cannot With its Past and Future replete with plot *Poietics : the science and/or philosophy of creation. Cf. T. Wignesan. Poietics : Disquisitions on the Art of Creation. Allahabad : Cyberwit.net, 2008, xiv-214p. *Yijing : the Canon of Changes. Among others, Cf. Richard John Lynn (transl.). The Classic of Changes. New York : Columbia University Press, 1994, 602p. © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013