To better understand the following poem, it may be helpful to read (or re-read) my blogs that immediately precede this one.
From the poet Wallace Stevens:
Theory
I am what is around me.
Women understand this. One is not duchess A hundred yards from a carriage. These, then are portraits: A black vestibule; A high bed sheltered by curtains.
These are merely instances.
Small organisms magnified… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2023
My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
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Yes, one understands your qualms with this. However, they are primarily functioning in (and “as”) illusions. See through their chaos and that will help. (And the earth will heal after the hominids destroy themselves.)
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‘I am what is around me’ – these days in the culture this is not comforting to say the least – we’re in even when we don’t want to be –
Yes, one understands your qualms with this. However, they are primarily functioning in (and “as”) illusions. See through their chaos and that will help. (And the earth will heal after the hominids destroy themselves.)
This make perfect sense to me though I don’t articulate as well as you do.
Great, Marlene, and it’s the understanding that is important… not the degree of articulation. 😊