Ponderable and poem for Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Alan Harris

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Jul 4, 2009, 1:58:06 AM7/4/09
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We can't really break the universal laws, but if we ignore them, they'll break us. 

Howling at a Real Moon

What is illusion,
really?
Is it the satisfied look on a rich
lady's face?
Is it a boy smelling the evening
breeze as he rubs his magic
lamp and has
visions?
Is it the mathematically
maternal thrill of writing a tight
algorithm for a computer?

What is reality,
sort of?
Is it the headache after too
much ice cream too
fast?
Is it the birds before a spring
sunrise singing their hearts
out?
Is it the symphonic
climax hurled out
of a conductor's
baton?

If we knew what illusion is,
would it be found but a
word?
If we knew what reality is,
how long before the knowing
were but a memory?

Give me a breath at a time
and keep your reality.
Show me a round
orange moonrise
and I will fully embrace illusion.

I look into your eyes
and I see the absolute
reality of illusion.
Then it is that I forget the
illusion of reality.

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