Now my five senses
gather into a meaning
all acts, all presences;
and as a lily gathers
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3) Congratulations that Poem Hunter and Team had chosen this poem. A greatest honor!
2) but it is not easy in reality: this to me is heavy artillery, deep very deep philosophy, but a boundless thought-provoking poem, a masterpiece by this great poetess, it commands respect, an incredibly fascinating poem! Congratulations
If I may conclude: The web grows within you, but without your knowledge, a pattern follows came out of nowhere a rhythm that dances and is not yours this poem is very easy to read,
Beautiful poem. A rhythm that dances and is not mine.......Just wonderful!
'as thread for that weaver, whose web within me growing follows beyond my knowing some pattern sprung from nothing- a rhythm that dances and is not mine' - wonderful! When the five senses gather into a meaning, poems spring forth! Congratulations on the poem's selection as the 'Modern Poem of the Day'!
While I'm in my five senses they send me spinning all sounds and silences, all shape and colour as thread for that weaver, patterns springing from nothing. tony
A poem of the heightened effect that one feels when all senses kick in?
five senses grow beyond knowing; sprung from nothing! five senses make this body as living being and alive through everything!
'as thread for that weaver' The wonderful way senses are weaved into the web, or matrix, of the poet's mind to become a pure design.
Sounds and silences! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Beautiful poem on senses. Thanks for sharing and congratulation for poem of the day.
Personally I am not a fan of over-abstraction in poetry, so I don't take as much from this piece as others might, although I did enjoy the metaphor of the web-like weaving of sensory impressions.
Dancing to the music of sensory experience.