Perkins & Jordan – Win.10
Carrie Perkins and Michelle Jordan traded their work. Michelle gave Carrie the following poem:
Trojan Horse
This is my favorite time
You hold so much promise
And I can wait for reality
As I hold you in my hands
So full of potential
This can be and is
All I’ve ever wanted
As yet unrealized
Happiness not marred by imperfection
And the passing of time
Temporality is forgotten
In the moments before you fail me
Carrie painted this in response:
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Carrie gave Michelle this painting:
And Michelle wrote this poem in response:
Schrödinger’s Poetry
(it’s better if you don’t read it)
No continuity and no separation
The observer determines the nature of the situation
Phase oscillation
Heisenberg Uncertainty
The principal assures us
we know nothing definitively
We are all flickering on and off endlessly
At subatomic levels
We disappear constantly
Bohm postulates a seething field of energy
Behind and beneath the universe we see
Our biology is an imperfect antenna
For subtler signals
The lapwing Matter with distraction and cunning
Draws us away from her cosmic egg
And we run after her
Our instruments fooled by her seeming broken wing
Always seeing only the surface of things
Beneath our perception
Myriads of worlds revolve and resolve
We might visit them all
Could our biology sense what our physicists know
That our reality is as ephemeral as snow
TLE: i read both poems…without a mystery or two, intellectuals would have long since vacated the premises for more puzzling universes elsewhere (not so BTW, fine poems, both!) RT
ps. & wonderful paintings! RT
Thanks for reading!