A poetry project to write 99 modern sonnets, each inspired by one of the 99 beautiful names of God from the Sufi tradition. As Blavatsky said - 'Words Matter!' - and so does feeling!! Some poems will refer to my son Andrew who has Down's Syndrome .... and every word, every facet, has to do with something probably quite ineffable -- Love!
Sunday, 7 November 2010
46. Al-Hakim – Discriminating Wisdom
Suggets wise, correct, judge --- ‘The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Grasmere
a duck lands, splashes,
paddles to shore; just before
the prow of a boat.
Choice
Inexorable logic on logic
plotting formulae into my spreadsheet
with cause-effect, sine-wave, a particle,
pi - on and on – such an effort
but I’m born of melody, mixed
out of salt into soup, grown of sunlight;
a writhing, a forcing, a molecule
grabbing for first breath at midnight.
According to Emerson,
a Genie stands beside me,
anchoring mystical destiny
and that's the one and only way to know
a good friend from a sour one,
the dark side of the moon and potent sun.
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