Infinity

“Forest Glade by Walter Boodle

 

forever ago
I carved my infinity
into the knee of a tree
and the woods came alive
with hurt whispers of why
and an everlast promise
they’d never forget
my brief passage
no need of my sign
to remind them
we shared an
affection

(originally posted December 2013)

Old Souls

“Series Infinity” by Irfan Mirza

 

that old man
was the man
who was me
long before
I was born
spent his youth
as my son
till he grew
to become
my own father

wisdom chased
across arcs
around loops
by fleet folly
faith and
knowledge
bended back
on themselves
giving life and
death sacred
dimensions
of circles
and time
the atomic
momentum
of wheels
turning turning
returning with
infinite speed

(originally posted January 2014)

Future Shock

crawling inside the grain
knees and elbows as tiny
as stardust that punctuates
comet trails rendered in
ciphers and symbols chalk
talking to blackboards of
physicists bracketed
language of prelates
in nucleic sacristies

down in the heartwood
blood rushes in circular
routes to whorled wounds
that mean someone has
been here before blazed
a careless cut chronolog
trail introducing the notion
of death to the living
disrupting infinity

Forever, For Now

 

Fractal Art by Paul deCelle

 

 

pain is a fractal
sharp edges cut and repeat
their ruthless assault
recursion of suffering
in lease to infinity

 

 

From my books Human Waters and Riverthink

Four Eternities

“Bridge to Eternity”
Painting by Michael Lang
From fineartamerica.com

which is the longer time
the beginning without end
the end without beginning
the ever was and will be

or

the beginning with an end
that discrete single hour
whose halfness can be
measured to infinity

Briefly Infinite

“Infinity”
Painting by Cyryn Fyrcyd
From fineartamerica.com

what I’ve seen of forever
leaves me unimpressed
perhaps it’s the case
that my small jaded notch
on the timeline
just happens to fall
in an era aberrant with turmoil

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“What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.”

– Umberto Eco