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Category Archives: PICTURE POEMS
Picture Poems a poems written for, and pasted on, pictures, paintings or graphic art. The poem describes or emulated the picture in verse.
DREAMS: ELSEWHERE OR NOWHERE
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When you sleep, YOU may be elsewhere or nowhere….
“The acute phase announced itself by nightmares of a grotesque and terrifying and premonitory nature. Miss R. had a series of dreams about one central theme: she dreamed she was imprisoned in an inaccessible castle, but the castle had the form and shape of herself; she dreamed of enchantments, bewitchment, entrancement; she dreamed that she had become a living, sentient statue of stone; she dreamed that the world had come to a stop; she dreamed that she had fallen into a sleep so deep that nothing could wake her; she dreamed of a death which was different from death.” ~ Oliver Sacks, describing the symptoms experienced by Rose R., a patient who fell ill with Encephalitis Lethargica (Sleepy Sickness), from Awakenings. Later in the text, Rose R. is described as “…she was simply — elsewhere (or nowhere).”PAINTING: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), The Sleeping Beauty, 1870-1873
A RIDE HOME
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Many people devote many lifetimes on Earth searching for ways to escape from Earth or to transcend the reality of the physical universe. There are a thousand names for “heaven” but there is apparently no proven path to get there… perhaps it’s not a destination?
Or, maybe each Being is already “home” and “heaven” is a state of being we create and perceive for ourselves….
CONSTANT CHANGE
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“The Only Constant is Change.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 BC – 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos (λόγος) in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling and paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called “The Obscure” and the “Weeping Philosopher”. He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that “the path up and down are one and the same”, all existing entities being characterized by pairs of contrary properties. His cryptic utterance that “all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos” (literally, “word”, “reason”).
REST AND PEACE
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