James Moore Poet Narrative

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A World of Thoughtforms

(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic)

A World of Thoughtforms

Caught in cascade tumble
Splashing here there
Without time to collect my self
Let alone thoughts
What is up becomes down
And down up.

As I fall
Bits and pieces 
Are left scattered
Splashed onto shores
Evaporating into nothing
Leaving only flow.

Somehow in the process
One is made greater
With their losses
Stripped of identities
Like so many badges
Of false honor.

Not greater in stature
Or reason, or anything
That one would wish for
Or hope to attain
But in something beyond
And then beyond even that.

Caught in cascade tumble 
Life is chelated 
Inexorable union of psyche and substance 
As Sun made flesh and fiber shines 
In every element, thoughtforms all
Of that which has no name.

(3/1/25)

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