Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Parallelismus Membrorum

Rain Begetting Lightning

Little fields have big fields
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And big fields have bigger fields
And so ad infinitum.
(Alan Watts, 1966)

Little systems have open systems
Upon their boundaries to bite 'em,
And open systems have ecological metasystems
And so ad infinitum.

Within systems have withouting systems
Upon our boundaries to right 'em,
And withouting biosystems beget withining neurosystems
And so ad infinitum.


We are raining,
training,
rebraining
withouting leading withining.

We are thereby paining,
withining leading withfatting.

Responsive straining and explaining,
with fatuating dissonating listening ining.

We are training
Left-withouting leading Right-withining.

We are lightning
withining co-gravitating withouting
             co-arising yet another inning...

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David Fisher October 1, 2015 at 8:41 PM Like your poem, quite the tongue twister. It flows nicely