One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 29. oracle

On 03/05/2017 04:00 AM, Valkyrie said:

Thought-provoking, as always.

Thanks, Val. I appreciate it

Great! I like both poems very much, although they are nearly to much to cope on one time, because they leave one so full of thoughts. But nevertheless they are so related to each other, that they work very good together. Visiting old cathedrals like Hagia Sophia, I try to get to this point, looking on the architecture, mosaics or frescoes like the people in the time of their creation. What a wonder they must have been, what symbol of power.
But living today our senses dulled by modern inventions, we reached a liberty to come to better judgment and deeper thoughts not dazzled by gold and lapis lazuli. If we chose to.

Number 57 resonated with me - perhaps it was the word particle that did it. That word conjures up atoms and molecules, dust and ashes, and all the elemental bits and shards to which we will one day return.
Number 58 reverberates like the great vaulted cathedral evoked by your words. You are in synch with the original idea that the interior paintings, frescoes and sculptures reminded the churchgoer that there was supposed to be a connectedness between things spiritual and temporal; that we were being observed. Polychrome angels, indeed. The final couplet clinches the whole thing for me, affirming ourselves in our own time and space.

On 03/05/2017 06:29 AM, Lyssa said:

Great! I like both poems very much, although they are nearly to much to cope on one time, because they leave one so full of thoughts. But nevertheless they are so related to each other, that they work very good together. Visiting old cathedrals like Hagia Sophia, I try to get to this point, looking on the architecture, mosaics or frescoes like the people in the time of their creation. What a wonder they must have been, what symbol of power.

But living today our senses dulled by modern inventions, we reached a liberty to come to better judgment and deeper thoughts not dazzled by gold and lapis lazuli. If we chose to.

Thanks, Lyssa, for a kind and thoughtful review. Hagia Sophia has been a place I've longed to go since I started high school. The library there had a book about the church, and maybe one day I will get to visit 'her.' In the meantime, I certainly love to read about the construction and design of the place; to say it's complex is an understatement.

Thank you again for your support. I really appreciate it.

On 03/05/2017 08:13 AM, Parker Owens said:

Number 57 resonated with me - perhaps it was the word particle that did it. That word conjures up atoms and molecules, dust and ashes, and all the elemental bits and shards to which we will one day return.

Number 58 reverberates like the great vaulted cathedral evoked by your words. You are in synch with the original idea that the interior paintings, frescoes and sculptures reminded the churchgoer that there was supposed to be a connectedness between things spiritual and temporal; that we were being observed. Polychrome angels, indeed. The final couplet clinches the whole thing for me, affirming ourselves in our own time and space.

Thank you, Parker, as always Yes, they are still looking furiously for the Higgs boson particle, but what will change once they find it? Probably not very much; we'll just move on to the next mountain to climb.

I love your take on No. 58 – "…connectedness between things spiritual and temporal…" Very well said.

Thanks again!