Best Escher Poems

Maurits Cornelis Escher,
artist or mathematician?
Methinks he's more like a torturer,
sending faceless men on a fruitless mission!



NOTE: He's a sketcher who drew the famous work, Relativity (as well as many others).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Escher%27s_Relativity.jpg...

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#1
broken icicle
equatorial fossil
turned now into stone

Brian Johnston
June 20, 2016

Poet's Notes:
Expect more to come!  Ha!...

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How fitting that today I should don
the shirt of M.C. Escher paintings
shirt of confusion
shirt of the void
shirt of the self...

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giant worm infestation in my mind tonight
climbing up, simultaneously climbing down
engineering side rivaling artistic relief

bubbly puffy grayscale creatures 
sectioned in rounded compartments
their fat butts showing, striped and round
climbing up and climbing down

In two’s and three’s they make the fabricated climb
lizard-like, but no, more rounded, more...

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eternal divorced
her now external
but in the end
just add less
and you get
more
but

remember that
exits exist as
entrances
for doors
let you
go in
and

out
thus
the great
outdoors as
to staying indoors
both need explored to
know the ways of heaven

and
earth...

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If I shave with Occam’s razor
I will only grow a gross beard;
And all my scientific friends
Will think that I am truly weird.

If I want a small feline pet,
Should I adopt Schrodinger’s cat?
Will its fur be real, soft, and smooth;
Or will I only think it so?

If...

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("Gravity's Rainbow", 2017, original encaustic)

The Endless River Flows

Everywhere sheep being led to slaughter
Everywhere the innocent seduced
Everywhere someone crying
While another looking up 
Into open skies
As unspoken questions arise unbidden

These are the times of change and revelation
As demons are given form 
To be confronted
As closets empty into...

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