FELLOW COSMIC TRAVELERS
We who seek
answers
to universal and
unanswerable
questions
will always fall first
because of imponderables
but we will lead
the human parade
with verve because
I like you
understand
the sacrifice of the quest.
Categories:
imponderables, journey, people,
Form: Free verse
Meandering through the mind I uncover
The imponderables of life quietly holding
A plethora of life truths I long to discover
Meandering through the mind I uncover
Those splendid gems needing mulling over
Patiently awaiting my attention, unfolding,
Meandering through the mind I discover
The imponderables of life quietly holding.
written November 8, 2021
Categories:
imponderables, muse, philosophy, truth,
Form: Triolet
A fork in the road
Forcing the weary old monk
To then decline both...
And marvelling how his feet
Ignore imponderables.
Categories:
imponderables, philosophy,
Form: Tanka
The sparkling hoar frost on the twigs
Appear as silver in the waning light
Miniature icicles form on the sprigs
As I delight in the hidden and recondite
The great imponderables to the erudite
glisten like gold just out of reach
Dancing like snowflakes just before midnight
With arcane insights to teach
As I freeze in the vast and dark breach
Great snow drifts begin to form
I plead with the heavens, nay, I beseech
"Give me the wisdom that makes one warm"
Right in front of me appeared a storm
And out of it dropped shovels and spades
"Go forth, dig yourself out and reform
Enough with your tired masquerade."
So said the Mattatron of all it surveyed
As I dug through the snow into the earth
What it meant to me was conveyed
That within us is all our death and rebirth
12-3-2016
Categories:
imponderables, analogy, angel, bible, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Raising the bar
By S.Jagathsimhan Nair
Come along, mate,
Let us cross this concourse of coincidences and pray before this
ever-evaporating deity of oblivion.
And offer the termite hills of our doubts
at the altar of this counter-god.
Placed before his liquid justice
is our shared compendium of one mind
two heads and four arms in the form
of some kind of a binary or joke.
Are we algebraically trying to tie up
the imponderables like
mind, head and means,or just
offering up our movables like
money and matrimony and
immovables like kids and ****.
But the new mind is a dumb platform
like meadows are just mud
And the means as always converges
to come-what-may.
Any which way, let us not go slow
into our convulsions
into contrition
into oblivion.
Inspiration:The painting ' Two women sitting at a bar' by Pablo Picasso, 1902.
24 nov 2015.
Categories:
imponderables, drink,
Form: Free verse
Wise men
Somberly Pondering
Over Imponderables
What if.........
Why not .......
Cut, Cut .....
Master Tailors
Or Gardeners
Snipping at Schedules
And Budgets .....
Topiarists!
Categories:
imponderables, humor, imagery, satire, word
Form: I do not know?