The Creator toiled through the genus
of Euclidean Geometry and the Moorish
Alhambra, to show in perpetuity
that once there were two hands
trapped on paper, that struggled
to draw each other into existence.
First a shoulder, then a torso, limbs.
Over billions of years, they fillled
in the correct anatomical parts
until the first tentative steps
from the page into being.
Interdependent still,as brothers,
the way my cats sleep curled,
tail to nose of the other so that
I can't tell where one ends
and the other begins unless
they rise, arch their backs and yawn.
I rub their fur, conducting static;
the finger reaching down from
the Sistine toward Adam, the faint
blue arc when we come too close.
M C Escher's " Drawing Hands"
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Re: Mauris Cornelius Escher
Good poem...those last 3 stanzas lovely:
the way my cats sleep curled,
tail to nose of the other so that
I can't tell where one ends
and the other begins unless
they rise, arch their backs and yawn.
This must be what love is:
The finger reaching down from
The Sistine toward Adam; the faint
blue arc when we come too close.
the way my cats sleep curled,
tail to nose of the other so that
I can't tell where one ends
and the other begins unless
they rise, arch their backs and yawn.
This must be what love is:
The finger reaching down from
The Sistine toward Adam; the faint
blue arc when we come too close.
Re: Mauris Cornelius Escher
I see in a revision you have left off the final stanza which improved the poem. Very good poem.
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Re: Mauris Cornelius Escher
Hi kenneth
in accord w/ Bob and Billy
and as you probably understand a creative allusion to the genius that is Michelangelo
appeals to my artistic sensibility
The Creator & the creator's creation
Michael (MV)
in accord w/ Bob and Billy
and as you probably understand a creative allusion to the genius that is Michelangelo
appeals to my artistic sensibility
The Creator & the creator's creation
Michael (MV)