the limits of logic precede the possibilities of poetry

                                         






         Geometry

 

                                     by David Henderson






 

Logic can only go so far

after that I must see-perceive-imagine

This geometry can help

I may reason logically thru theorem

and propositions galore,

but only what I perceive is real.

If after studying I am not changed

if after studying I still see the same

then all has gone for naught.

Geometry is to open up my mind

so I may see what has always been behind

the illusions that time

and space construct.

Space isn’t made of point and line

the points and lines are in the mind.

The physicists see space as curved

with particles that are quite blurred.

And, when I draw, everything is fat

there are no point and that is that.

The artists and the dreamer knows

that space is where an image grows.

For me it’s a sea in which I swim

a formless sea of hope and whim.

Thru my fear on Infinity and One

I structure space to confine

my imagination away from the idea

That all in One.

But, I can from this trap escape

I can see the geometry in which I wander

as but a structure I made to ponder.

I can dare to let fo the structures

and my fears

and look beyond

to see what is always there to see.

But, to let go, I must first grab on.

Geometry is both the grabbing on

and the letting go.

It is a logical structure

and a perceived meaning

Q.E.D.’s and “Oh! I see”’s

It is formal abstractions

and beautiful contraptions.

It is talking precisely about that

Which we know only fuzzily.

But, in the end, and, most of all,

it is seeing-perceiving

The meaning that

I AM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descartes would be so proud.....

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