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Left Brain Right Brain

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("Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic)

Left Brain Right Brain

The two halves of our brain
exist like opposites in our world
but as wholes within our heads.
Sometimes it seems the left -
the side of words and logic and manageable things  -
disregards that there is even an other,
a side that is in fact the master
that all perceptions filter through,
a gate keeper ever watching without judgment,
a side that knows
but doesn’t say
speaking instead in gesture, music and image, 
that only hint at the truth,
that takes us down
the rabbit hole
to realms unknown
yet all our own
where sequences build 
and break and form
kaleidoscopic worlds are born
where wind can talk
and Sun does sing
and logic becomes a playful thing
that turns to noodles 
we sell at roadside stands
eat with cop sticks
that dance to marching bands
and feed to snakes
as they hum the rhyme
of ancient mariners 
now lost in time…

(first published in my second book, LITTLE PINE, 2016)

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/5/2023 6:02:00 PM

interesting...perhaps the grand maestro is seated in the Amygdala; perhaps the light and dark of it all is the real grand maestro, the Egyptians referred to It, as the Eye of Horus (the Pineal gland). Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps.

James Moore
Date: 9/5/2023 8:35:00 PM

I don't know (about the big picture), but it does seem the two halves of the brain are different - polar opposite (fraternal) twins in balance (although the difference/isolation is more extreme in males than females, in other words, females are more integrated), yin/yang incarnate....

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/5/2023 6:03:00 PM

but then again, perhaps not. questions. questions. questions.