(“Zero Point of Creation”, 2018, original encaustic)
The Dual Nature
The dual nature of reality,
When we look we see a thing
When we don’t it is a wave,
Isn’t a matter of either/or
But one of and/both.
Beyond the simple wonder of this reality
Is the ineffable mystery of what lies within.
What more is there to say
When you have reached the point of origin
The zero point of every thing.
(9/3/25)
Categories:
zero point, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustic photo collage)
The Programmed Mind
Riding our brain waves
What we do and say and think
Finds a lasting home
At whatever level
Those vibrations take us.
Do we remember our dreams
What we did, said and thought
As the relaxed state of REM sleep
Molds us, solidifying or disrupting,
Our daytime persona?
Do we consciously seek out
Our own reprogramming
In deep prayer and meditation
Establishing familiarity
With primordial zero-point awareness?
Or do we simply
Follow our impulses like a dog
Basking in the pleasure
Of comfortable routine
And operant conditioning?
It is our mind after all
To have and to hold
Or rather as the case may be,
To reclaim and rewire,
Program and heal for ourselves.
(4/16/25)
Categories:
zero point, health, introspection, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
This site is ninety-nine-point-nine percent pure
For that zero point one percent there ain't no cure
In the overall scheme
Their effect has no steam
They're as worthless as all get out, so immature
Categories:
zero point, friendship,
Form: Limerick
I've fallen in and out of arms,
I've deceived and lied to get
what I wanted...wasn't too foolish?
I hurt lovers and broken lots of hearts,
laughing at them, redeeming no fault;
I'm staring from zero point and crash!
Being all yours meant very little,
I faked everything, including passion,
they believed me and gave me all;
do their deluded looks make me tremble?
I can leave on tiptoe and feel no emotion.
You've put your trust in the wrong guy,
and condemning my lies makes you cry;
keep miles from me, don't feel mercy:
I planned this and caused your insanity!
Being all yours meant very little,
I had fun with others and gave you none;
didn't you want more to keep you satisfied;
didn't I want less, not honoring the girl I found?
I burst into tears and feel your anger,
what kind of example did I set for myself?
not being all yours was a weird idea so unfair;
now, all the unseen pictures go back on the shelf!
Categories:
zero point, adventure, betrayal, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
Balancing a stone on its edge
is an art, a test for the spirit
as much as it is to a steady hand.
You must have a will to listen
to stones, to know their voice
and hear them speak
to be able to balance
a stone.
A stone will tell you
where its equilibrium is,
the zero point you must find
to have it sit in perfect peace.
Each stone has such a place
where force is focussed
into a still,
drawn in a line through
the center of its soul.
When the earth calls,
let one stone find its foot
atop of another, its sides
whispering to your hands
until it reaches that moment
when it stands free,
a wonder held by gravity
on a narrow tip. Withdraw slowly
and look in awe,
then let a breath of air
or a passing butterfly
brush it with a wing
to bring it down and return it
to where it was before.
Note.
Search "Stone Balancing Art" on You Tube
to see some remarkable examples
of this art form.
Categories:
zero point, art, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Zero point two percent of life Man represents on earth yet the whole planet claims as his own!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
20 September 2018
Categories:
zero point, earth, humanity, life,
Form: Monoku
A Cold arrow
Puts "me" through
Then, turns to be warming up,
And flaring
It must be made so by my blood
And my spirit
And what "Me" is supposed to mean then?
A melting pot?
A zero point of a coordinate?
No! It means that "Me" IS just a target.
Categories:
zero point, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Relative Relevance
Earth dwelling in her Universal realm
Pulsating with energy in her helm.
Continual evolution in action
Elements and all life in reaction.
Relativity, energy causing an action,
Creating an equal, opposite reaction.
An ever recurring cause and affect
Incurring symmetry, ever perfect.
Since all is energy, ever in motion,
Circular in form, atomic devotion.
Eternally in peace and harmony,
Interacting withal, without money
Hither and thither, and thus to and fro,
Eternally alive; on and on they go.
Used by humankind, vastly to deploy
For industry, war, peace; all to destroy
Eventually, only, one day to return
To Zero Point Energy field's sojourn.
Starting anew, or perhaps even not,
Evermore to remain inept; their lot.
Categories:
zero point, inspirational, life, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
1.
Whenever the truest edge doesn’t hold,
Another existence it does belie.
When causality is a broken line,
Unseen variable has cracked the mold.
Simple cause and effect gets in trouble
Abstruse patterns underlie life’s events.
Straight Euclidean angles and tangents
Reveal deep truth when they twist and bubble.
Infinite weaving of the light and dark,
That from which all matter derives its form,
That from which all shades and colors are born,
Folding, animated by unseen spark:
Zero Point made of unbound potential.
Infinity in nothing, essential.
2.
A cause contains more than it alleges.
If all you can see are random events,
Assume that it must be coincidence
Occam’s razor it seems has two edges
The surface, outer manifestation
The solid, visible three dimensions
Concentrate, more enters your attention:
Substance beyond the realm of sensation.
Bursting through material pretension,
What unimaginable things are hid
Beyond the visible Cartesian grid
To unfold from another dimension?
The depth remains unseen, passes us by
Except in dreams, when the mind’s eye can fly.
3/23/16
Hybrid Italian/Shakespearean Sonnets
Abba cddc effe gg (x2)
Categories:
zero point, imagery, metaphor, science, senses,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Sincere..
Taped - that tickle.
Back pass a trillion marks.
Cast out non- lying smiles.
Travel on tactics . Tracks
Tune the notes ...re consolidate
Passion rises. Passion stays.
Boredom wary the powder of kill. "Two" detain it from hap -
coach .. lover .. teacher .. listener
Hollow ... "half self plus a zero point five"- Make a whole.
Recklessness
Refer to soul
Build on inner
Consciousness linking ..
sinking
A Replicating mode to arise a few
Words or silence bargains.
Love love and love again.
Categories:
zero point, deep, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
One of the beautiful things about Siberia it is a sea of grass
Like purple color of the soul Roth grass
And flowers like Siberian corydalis hides in the grass
The surreal beauty of flowers sends its divine fragrance through the ocean of grass
The grass covers the endless expanse
This is what inspires poetic romance
The sea of grass in which wind whispers soul will in trance
Among the grass the bears and tigers hunt and antelope will dance
The smell of freedom is mesmerizing
As the father time and mother Earth give birth to daughter spring
Of destiny connected to very abyss the nightingale will sing
The echoes of his voice lift the soul to place fit for a king
The grass is not it but it reflects the visage of genetic zero point
And if one looks for nirvana the fields of Siberia will not disappoint
As with sublime universal energy the spring is conjoint
And can completely lift one to divine viewpoint
Categories:
zero point, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Seven blanks in Scrabble
Might seem like a beautiful thing
Any seven letter word you can think of
It could be almost anything
But no matter how fancy that you get
No matter how rare or weird the word
Each blank tile gets you zero points
A zero point word – oh, how absurd
So there really is no TROUBLE
Trying too hard you can NEGLECT
Because your score will still be NOTHING
Even if the word you spell is PERFECT
Categories:
zero point, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Once my heart was glad
light from the stage lights made me cry,
laugh, even furious.
I loved every second of time
when you see my body move,
when my lips uttered words and sentences
poured into your mournful eyes.
I do not want to go back to the zero.
The story that you do not get to say love
tucked among the twilight.
However, I stayed waiting.
I do not want to go back to the zero again.
I was never aware of your presence
that loved me but was afraid to tell.
Until love is lost with, time and age.
Categories:
zero point, lost love, loveme,
Form: Free verse