Institute of Reflection

The virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation – A Tool for Clearer Thinking, Emotional Balance and a Rounded Perspective
by <a href="https://instituteofreflection.com/author/hemal-jayasuriya/" target="_self">Hemal Jayasuriya</a>

by Hemal Jayasuriya

Poetry thrives in a shadowy, allusive world in which feelings that can be un-pinnable in precise language come into a reality all their own. It may seem to have little to do with the world of facts and experimentation that is science. If all that there is can be explained by what we see and/or what we can prove, what need is there for poetry?
POEM

Light of the Non-existent Sun

How can one blow
A whiff of Life
Into a Lifeless Equation from a Platonic Cosmos

Separating it from -1 of Anti-matter
In the dynamic Zero
That deceivingly appears
To be a sea of Nothingness.
This a puzzling question
Posed by inanimate Matter
Staring down at comprehending Humans
From a billion billion galactic homes
Thoughtless, wondering how a dot of Matter is alive, and can know