Origami

Origami

Sitting quietly chatting sipping
fragrant coffee steaming.
Mind eyes mind's eye, all independently wandering
 'let slip' reins dangling.
Peace, as they individually pursue 
their individual endings. 

Activity, a quorum and a ladder 
gather them together,
a 'sale' sign erected in a bookshop window.
Initially eyes observe a dim and watery reflection,
then through glass in feature place
big block letters hold sway,
blue and bold they say,
in a chunky, awkward way,
“ORIGAMI”

Prompted by irony wryness emerges
and as the chosen foreman
collars and kicks thought into gear.
Now, eyes mind and mind's eye 
harnessed again do process 
the title which represents so much
then the image under the letters.
A space shuttle! In colour in flight,
all in folded paper.

with what do I associate
the pursuit that's here engendered  
by word so blue and bold, 
in chunky blocks presented? 

convey the serene 
emulate peace and beauty
quest for perfection

sparse and delicate
nature peeks from artistry
structure and balance

patient creation
thought and silence, reflection
meditation, poise

expressing oneness
shown in harmonious folds
homage and respect



So where lies irony which prompted wryness to action?
A matter of perspective pure for
the thing in living colour flight,
proud beneath the title
sends my thoughts off wandering
down roads altogether different
to quiet contemplation
a space shuttle is excitement!

Noise smoke and fire, risk! 
technology subduing nature. 
The very atoms screaming, harnessed
in destructive chemical reaction,
to force a cargo up and away
past enveloping atmosphere and gravity, 
the protective embrace 
of good old mother earth.

Man stands astride the world,
over his conquered foes! 
The fish and birds and living things
that move upon the ground.
 Apparatus held aloft and waved
science triumphantly brandished!
Gleaming instruments the anathema to
the pollution which has spawned them.

on the cover behind the glass
beneath the sale sign,
Eastern and Western approaches both,
eagerly presented defined,
 a polyglutenous combination
of idea-medium-form, 
designed to render artistic thought 
mere technical reality.

©T.Arnold

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