What I Became
In school I liked:
physical geography, American History
and biology.
I hated:
chemistry, physics
and geometry.
So, I became a pharmacist
Where beauty nests in routine,
Where passion and order dance as equals,
Where every small choice
Creates the geometry of a life well-lived.
an angle a way
warmongering mogul-
calculated reign
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Some think of geometry as art,
but I don't include Renes Descartes.
A philosopher of calibra,
he combined geometry with algebra.
When in a pickle or a fix he
was not only just whistling Dixie.
He was writing down equations,
perfect for geometric occasions.
Admit or deny, we search for a rhythm
Asymmetry of chaos unwelcome
Soul searches for that perfect algorithm
Renewing within heart a sublime hum
Geometric patterns of vibrations
Creates music that enlivens our soul
Invoking ethereal sensations
Dance of polarities making us whole
From root to crown, in bliss rapture we drown
When we allow wayward ego to die
Heartbeat of God announces the countdown
Paving way for soul straight to heaven fly
Simple is the path to enlightenment ~
Bring head and heart with love in alignment
Sometimes obtuse
Mostly acute
Right on the money
Straight to the point—
You always appeal
To my better angles
1/6/2023
Geometric • Geodesic graphic image by Mark Toney using Canva Pro
The last two lines are a play on words from President Lincoln's first inaugural address when he took the oath of office to become the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln closed with the phrase "... the better angels of our nature." I'm just trying to be honest, Abe :)
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Life goes in circles, relationships
The earth is a BALL, as some spaceships
We leave home, happily or unhappily
We explore, return at least once: it's geometry
Muladhara wheel of Brahma the beginning
Sahasara-Bindu soma receptors celebratory
Anahata sees energies in divine union igniting
Making the seeming complex look elementary
Kundalini energy divine both free and gridlocked
In an energy upsurge vertically looping our form
Mind upon beholding this divine miracle shocked
Seeing sacred geometry within the benign storm
I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral
All are a great happy family together
The circles and ellipses are closely related
The formulas of geometry try to memorize
The areas and circumferences
The diagonals and angles
Learn the trigonometric functions
You discover a new world
The sines and cosines
The tangents and arc tangents
If all this is not enough to entice you
Hopefully and much soon you probably
will fall in love with world of geometry
I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral
All are a great tight family together
The circles and ellipses are closely related
The formulas of geometry try to memorize
The areas and circumferences
The diagonals and angles
For the trigonometric functions
You discover a new world
The sines and cosines
The tangents and arc tangents
If all this is not enough to entice you
Most probably now you fell in love with geometry
Seek sacred space where wisdom waits,
Ask for the light to show the way;
Charm finds true grace here at this gate,
Reach for true sight to guide fond play;
Etch with fond spark a touch of cheer,
Dream of grand health that clusters peace.
Glimpse in the dark a love light dear,
End with true wealth in succinct ease;
Opt to live wise with warm delight,
Make what you will of fate that shows;
Apt the clear price of deep insight,
Note how joy thrills what your soul knows;
Choice mellows voice in poignant feel,
Yes channels poise as space reveals.
Leon Enriquez
25 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT
Drawing lines between shapes of grief
Going in circles, awaiting the lietmotif
Now just a side of a triangular run.
With defences up like the Pentagon.
Then finally looking Love square in the face
While Hope's line slopes down in disgrace
Calculating a Geometry too disjoint
For Love to have a basic point.
defying nature
lines broken into corners
and jammed into space
Dave Austin
CITY GEOMETRY
I’m on big town
Inserted
Yea, transplanted
Within its swaying wave
Of box and angle
Where my self-identity
Is something throbbing
Upward gazing
Arrowing
To sky points
So, it’s confusing
The hate-love factor
Stiffness
Restriction
Formal sharpness of angle
A quite eye bewildering sight
This swirling circumference
Of a giant
Fractured
Circle
And oh!
The Stravinskyish
Jagged continuity
Of line
Of dissonance
For distance
I follow parallels
Lines receding
With absolute straightness
There a promise of
Those cherished
Fading meadows
Of nature’s roundness
Her natural sweetness
Suddenly!
I take a ninety-degree angle of turn
With mandatory city goose step
Toward sanity
Toward home
Dave Austin
Parallel.
They said if our worlds ever existed,
It would be in parallel.
But when you gave me that sideways glance
I turned my chair perpendicular to avoid the trance
You cast on me.
And with as upside-down as my life is now,
My rubix-cube thoughts couldn't see how
This was meant to be.
Forgive my criss-crossed crooked gaze your way
But my tangle-angle heart wants you to stay.
And now I begin to see........
Like two dusty snowball spheres, our worlds collide,
And spatter beautiful flakes of brokenness
On this universe of We.
And now I begin to see,
Our worlds are meant to be
Everything....but
Parallel.
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