Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 62
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 62
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8*
Each family member plays with 7
Now this now that the future turns out late
This villanelle’s 6 + 2 = 8
Day 1 Month 1 in Year (2016)* 7
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8
1 is the number this one first took freight
Met one 8 which – 1 gives 7
Now this now that the future turns out late
Change is the mode for life to complicate
Change comes round when the number makes 7
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8
GOU Hexagram 4 + 4 = 8
Hell awaits on 06 06 66 + 1*
Now this now that the future turns out late
Everything begins again 8 times 8*
This sequence must end at 9 x 7*
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8
Now this now that the future turns out late
* 64 hexagrams
* 2016 (9 – 2) = 7
* 06061966 = 16 = 7
* Hexagram 64: Weiji (Ferrying incomplete)
* Hexagram 63: Jiji (Ferrying complete)
Transliteration from Richard John Lynn’s translation: The Classic of Changes (1994)
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2016
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