{"id":3317,"date":"2012-04-03T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2012-04-03T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:05:25","slug":"beginners-noosphere-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2012\/04\/beginners-noosphere-and-poetry.html","title":{"rendered":"beginner’s no\u00f6sphere (and poetry) ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I fall in love with words. And I’m pretty promiscuous about it — no single one holds my interest exclusively. I’m kind of a polygamous word lover, I guess. Much of my writing evolves out of word love affairs.<\/p>\n

One that I love is no\u00f6sphere<\/a>. I love the idea of human knowledge changing the world — it’s pretty Buddhist, if you think about it. That what we know impacts the world around us, changes even the way things happen, how they evolve. Another reason for right action. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So today’s poem is an ode to a word, in its own odd way. I’m always hesitant to say what a poem is, because nothing is that simple. Like knowledge. Like Buddhism…<\/p>\n

No\u00f6sphere<\/em> ~<\/p>\n

There is so little that I know for sure<\/p>\n

The drawers in my head spill<\/p>\n

Steampunk trivia, the welded artifacts<\/p>\n

Of brassy surety and broken glass<\/p>\n

Shards and diamante crystals<\/p>\n

Of significance.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I could dress a storefront window<\/p>\n

With the Thai silk I wore to a ball<\/p>\n

My mother\u2019s sequined shell, the scarlet<\/p>\n

Feathers of a fan I never bought. No<\/p>\n

Rhyme or reason, only the seasons<\/p>\n

Of a curiousity.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If there is a boundary, a membrane<\/p>\n

That surrounds the pulsing ectoplasm<\/p>\n

Of the human heart, I have lived for years<\/p>\n

On the other side of darkness. Sifting<\/p>\n

With my greedy fingers through what<\/p>\n

We cannot know or learn.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Loose pearls hide in the dark corners<\/p>\n

Of a rosewood chest, remind me of daily pain<\/p>\n

Someone told me would become<\/p>\n

My strength. While the winter\u2019s geese cut<\/p>\n

The blue Oklahoma sky with their wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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