Phanes pressed his thumb to my brow
Bringing to life my universe
This self-concept, roughly shaped
through compression and expansion
Self-analysis awakened
By literature’s hammer
Drubbing the insensate crust
Of stagnant minds
Human geodes
Disguise crystalline truths
Cracked open; inspected
Through defamiliarization
We write to figure out
Who we are
What elements embed themselves
Upon the substrate
Of cognition’s cavern
Glittering stalagmites
Intrepid deposits of steady minerals
Fiction, poetry, criticism
Their rhythmic dripping
Of knowledge and inspiration
Erect stone obelisks
A computer can make anything we dictate
But it cannot WANT to create
Yet worlds are invoked
Through the flow of a simple stylus
Each heterocosmos formed with care
To be self-contradictory as a writer
Is an exploration; to question is
To carve each character
With a facet of consciousness
A signet engraved; unique stamp
Of the human condition
Diamonds are encased
within transient truths
A single kairos introspection
Made precious in our eyes; over time
Axioms are exquisitely assembled
By masters of their craft
Fashioning Aionic Crown Jewels
That will withstand eternity
Dwarfing mountains
With their magnitude
And majesty
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In love with life and all of its foibles.
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Comments (19)
Nice topic
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I love how you stitched together ideas of writing with concepts of spirituality. This was a great read.
Congrats on your top story!
Nice
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Great 😊
Very good 👍👍
A beautiful poem, Marie! I love the contrasts and comparisons here. Congrats on the Top Story! 🎉
best
This is beautiful, Marie. Congrats on the TS.
absolutely beautiful
Whoa, this is so philosophical! That line "A computer can make anything we dictate / But it cannot WANT to create"—pure gold. It’s like the soul of writing itself nodded in approval.💖
"A computer can make anything we dictate But it cannot WANT to create" I especially loved those lines. It's so true!
Marie, this is absolutely stunning. I’m blown away by the language, the layering of metaphor, and the sheer force of introspection in your lines. You took the idea of creation—the writer as both explorer and excavator—and turned it into something mythic and visceral. “Human geodes”, “cognition’s cavern”, “Aionic Crown Jewels”—these images are going to sit with me for a long time. I’m honored my words helped spark this. Truly, you’ve reminded me why we write in the first place.
Oooo I looove this! 💜💜💜
Your writing is so, so incredible. Like Tim said, absolutely cosmic, every time. ♥️♥️
This feels like poetry forged under cosmic pressure.
Well-wrought! A callback to that old Hermetic doctrine (which is most likely much, much older) that all things contain their opposite.
Very nice