Monday, September 28, 2009

Defining Each Other


Hard and soft.
Slow and fast.
Easy and difficult.
Tall and short.
Wide and deep.
Long and brief.
Wet and dry.
Loud and quiet.
Light and dark.
Cold and hot.
Straight and bent.

Hard and harder.
Soft and softer.
Slow and slower.
Fast and faster.
Easy and easier.
Difficult and more difficult.
Tall and taller.
Short and shorter.
Wide and wider.
Deep and deeper.
Long and longer.
Brief and briefer.
Wet and wetter.
Dry and drier.
Loud and louder.
Quiet and quieter.
Light and lighter.
Dark and darker.
Cold and colder.
Hot and hotter.
Straight and straighter.
Bent and more bent.

We define each other as we define ourselves.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Chalk or Sand

Recreating the mystique of depth
In Arthurian Romance, evanescent
Woods and knights and dragons

Peer up from a sidewalk artist’s
Favorite illustrated classics, only
To be blown away by wind and rain

Or downtrodden by thousands of feet.
Native American sand paintings
And Japanese Buddhist temples

Share this same aesthetic belief in art
As transient and impermanent
To the elements that erode it.

Lady Liberty’s arm or Lincoln’s nose
Require constant archaeological
Reconstruction lest chalk or sand
Scourge their myth of freedom

[Disposable Poem September 28, 2009]
Dr. Mike