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:

  1. 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

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