Nothingness
“Nothingness”
Words
lines drawn
unending
dusk
to
dawn
characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind
where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows
and snakelike
moves
outside the lines
electric
we become strange
symphonies sublime;
engraved in time
most rocks crumble
dissolve,
life has no need
for unnecessary
rhyme
beginning of a sentence
chases the end
catches up, blends in
swallowing life’s tale
circular
Ouroboros
the meaning of it all
for most
lost in the dreams
we dreamt
messages
for a short time
remembered,
then forgotten
what we were
becomes
irrelevant
comprehensible slides,
counting sleeps
on a constant wheel
turning eternally
we meet strange gods
recycling myths
in ourselves
we meet the all
in the nothingness
lines drawn
new characters
unrecognised
untranslated
the function
and purpose of
words read and spoken
disappear
no point in lines
open we understand
intuitively
what rhymes
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Lauge - Nothingness
https://youtu.be/uUE7ZiMcf94
Ouroboros
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metempsychosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_materia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_mundi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Over-Soul
Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Essays, "The Over-Soul"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2944/2944-h/2944-h.htm
"The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feedback' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself, and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he, therefore, constitutes the secret of the prima materia which ... unquestionably stems from man's unconscious." Jung
tail/tale
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