Tag Archives: philosophy

Poem: The Present

February 16, 2019humour, Life, philosophy, poem, Poetryhumour, Life, philosophy, poem, poetry, timeThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Time’s linear line
always onward

when did this future
become my present?

a gift I didn’t want
but cannot

ever
return

The second of three…………

Poem: The Past

February 13, 2019Life, philosophy, poem, PoetryLife, philosophy, poem, poetry, timeThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Bodies move forward
yet minds can wander back

to sepia times
black and white beginnings

past loves
not so ancient terrors

the present
is a gift

The first of three…………

Poem: Sun dogs

January 26, 2019nature, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Scienceenvironment, Life, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Not the sun itself
but phantom stars in the day.
Mother star’s puppies, mock suns,
illusions as the Sun plays
with high soaring crystals of ice,
they light the horizon.
So illusions of celebrity brighten myriad lives,
but only on the margins.

Sun dogs all.

What is a poem?

January 12, 2019PoetryHenri Cole, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Small snapshot of the soul
a moment of being
no monetary gain
yet profit
something that wasn’t there before
now illuminates
is alive

Inspiration from Henri Cole and my various readers and poetry blogging friends. Lets make 2019 a good one for poetry.

Hope

January 5, 2019philosophy, poem, Poetryhope, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

The grounds for hope?
Simply that we don’t know
what will happen next
the unlikely and unimaginable
transpire quite regularly.
Whether this happens?
Is up to you and me.

Iceberg

December 15, 2018beauty, Life, nature, philosophy, poem, Poetrybeauty, climate change, iceberg, Life, nature, Ocean, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Icebergs, refracting blues and greens
as if gigantic gemstones,
and the deep massy ever moving ocean
exist symbiotically
made of the same substance
but separate entities
each enigmatic, inscrutable.

Icebergs lie in wait for unsuspecting ships,
their increased calving into the ocean
augur the doom of Antarctic ice sheets
and so of coastal cities and those within.
Yet their ice is open to light
sparking endless variations in it’s aspect,
while ocean depths are veiled by waves and opacity.

Differences simply born of lack of heat,
each is part of our blue planets girdling seas
as are we, in all our different complexities.

Angels and salamanders

December 10, 2018philosophy, quoteMargaret Atwood, philosophy, quoteThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

“Most people prefer angels to salamanders as symbols of the inspirational, although one is surely as wondrous as the other.”

Margaret Atwood

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/bookend/bookend.html

I’m sure there’s a poem in here somewhere, waiting to get out…..

Poetry versus Fiction

November 28, 2018philosophy, poem, Poetryfiction, Margaret Atwood, philosophy, poem, poetry, speculative poetry, writingThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

“….with a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen.”

Margaret Atwood

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/bookend/bookend.html

…although I would argue that good Speculative Poetry does poke about with a stick……

Poetry and poems

November 9, 2018Life, love, poem, PoetryHenri Cole, Life, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Linguistic music, patternings, rhymes
Representations of being
A beautiful sunset
Snapshots of souls, of lives
Illumination, aliveness
Waves crashing on a beach
Poems about real life
Poems made out of nothing
Moonlight over mountains
The despair and anger of these days
All belong to poetry
Now, as ever

Inspired by an interview with the poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cole“>Henri Cole and written in response to those who think poems about nature and family are irrelevant and unpublishable.

Poem: Nebula

October 28, 2018astronomy, beauty, cosmology, philosophy, poem, Poetryastronomy, beauty, cosmology, Nebula, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond

Words cannot encompass this nebulaic magnificence
Glowing dust hides star birth from prying eyes
Stars that dwarf our own mother sun lurk in clouds lit by particle winds
Radiation surges and particle winds sculpt huge gas pillars
Gas that has fed billowing pregnant clouds and grown embryo stars
Glows in colours beyond our eyes capacity to see
This beauty has travelled for almost seven millennia to achieve our orbit
Photons radiating away from the stellar birthing place
Those remaining after absorption and reflection losses are here
Now washing our instruments with glory
Now humbling our eyes with truth

Inspired by February 5th Picture of the Day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160205.html