Empirical

Through recognition that the non-subtle body experiences the universe through chemical processes comes realization of its dependencies and empirical limitations.

Ode of Orphee

Orpheus and Eurydice by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1806)
Profess how I long,
    Through metered song 
    To rhythmic tick and every tock
    Of celestial cosmic clock,
        That counts by years,
   A  turning golden gear,
For thy scared kiss,
    Beloved, Eurydice,
        Veiled by chimeric myst 
        Of the depths of hell,
        Where twice you fell. 

Forever together in heart, 
Ever in temporal plane apart. 

In a web of greed, hate and illusion.

Reflections during a 
summer solstice…

Content in the realization 
that the declination
of my Earthly Sol 
now travels north, 
toward  final winter’s
hibernation.
 
To what point oratory 
hyperbole 
and grandiloquence bombast? 
Magniloquence verbosity 
with pomposity elocution?

Eloquence  replaced 
with rant and discourse, 
and oration displaced by 
balderdash fustian frustration. 

Waxing exclusive 
warring tribes, 
and inkish snide 
eclipsing waning 
inclusive 
benevolent 
compassion. 

You know not me,
nor I any more 
learned of you. 
Where does 
humanity hide?