Do Crystals Cry?

[Fox of the Oaks]

I've seen their many shapes, geometry,
Under microscopic photography;
Do they look back at our humanity,
Meandering through atomic causality?

They've got a closer seat than us, it seems,
More intimate in their atomic dreams;
We burden ourselves with things of our size -
Have you considered the world through the crystal's eyes?

"Nonsense", he barks, with brain bigger than dog,
"Such lines of research will keep us in fog.
This pseudo science belongs in the bog!"
Rage shakes him and stammers him, mind merely a cog.

We shall soon end our time as human kind,
When we cannot see beyond our anthropic blind;
The silent waves of nature sing beyond
The tiny reality of which we're so fond.

While such raging beliefs burn pseudo-mind,
And empirical stares peel away life;
Evidence mixed with human-centric wry,
The priesthood of science attempts never to die.

When all but the hardest 'rigour' is 'false',
When fact outweighs the heart on scales of Ma'at,
What comes to my imaginative eye...
Is tear drops condensing - geometry to cry.

[wyeuro]

wow, deep, strong dreamtime stuff. i love the idea that geometry could cry. it's so animistic and rational and reasonable too. because where do our feelings frame themselves but in the constellations of our atomic make-up. brilliant!
wyverne /|\

[Fox of the Oaks]

Haha, thanks wyeuro.
I know you tend to respond a lot to my poems (and most other peoples'), but it's funny that you would do so for this one, because actually part of the inspiration for this poem came from reading your writings on wordpress; other parts came from reading The Philosophers' Secret Fire by Patrick Harpur, and also general chit chat about Science and Truth, with those who may be termed followers of Scientism.
If you haven't read Patrick's book, I certainly recommend it, you may enjoy it.
I enjoyed reading your writings, your concepts are wondrous and oceanic.

[Fox of the Oaks]

Hey also wyeuro, I have a question that you may well know.

Did Middle English pronounce final a 'y' in a word as an 'i' sound (pronounced like 'eye')?

For example:
geometry may be pronounced, geometr-eye...

I wonder this because I've noticed in some older poems the rhyming only fits if this is the case.
I thought for this poem I wrote, it might be better if this alternative pronunciation was used in the first verse.

Peace,
PineRaven.

[wyeuro]

i wondered if it's because we're both australian and responding subliminally to the wisdom of the land that we strike chords in each other. it's as if alcheringa teaches us, and we're thinking from the recognition that the narrative that unfolds as reality, the universe, is as surely hardwired into the very living dust we're made of, as it is into the greater cosmos of galaxies and gods.
wyverne /|\

[Fox of the Oaks]

Indeed that may be true, part of the same beat.

[Fox of the Oaks]

it's as if alcheringa teaches us, and we're thinking from the recognition that the narrative that unfolds as reality, the universe, is as surely hardwired into the very living dust we're made of, as it is into the greater cosmos of galaxies and gods.

I'm certain that's the case for every human, just that we have all come from different 'stories', and since there is some sharing of a common 'song' amongst a country, through culture and so on, there can be some kind of cohesion for survival, and perhaps even higher aims like love, meaning, self-actualisation and those other things Maslow believed were important. Yet, as humans, we don't all move to the same music, in Australia, or on Earth, perhaps because of a lack of awareness of our connection with the greater tune, the Cosmic Song, which is embodied in all of Nature, above and below.
When different songs meet (and that seems to be happening a lot these days, especially in a global multicultural world...) there can be harmony or disharmony, and all other experiences in-between.

Having a connection through Druidry means we are able to share a greater song, and also Druidry is such that we practice a connection with the Great Song - so we are fortunate there. We are also working on ourselves to become more awake, aware and loving, so we are at least double-lucky. What a blessed thing is the earth-spirit path!

Songs, energy, life stories, cycles and rhythms, all on various levels of meaning and being, physicality and dreaming...