WHERE ALL THE GODS RETIRE

-----------* An interesting note on poets and poetry that follows this poem...please read.-----------

Plunder postcards,

edge symphonics,

Space is but the first frontier,

charming peptide pontificates,

the undulating ripcord,

parachute omelette,

falls from bucolic trope,

modifying the modified.

Edge of hyper-reason,

echoing in the Mandelbrot set,

Lorenz attractors repelling doubt,

etched in the fractal geology

of their stone's throw from history.

Capsizing ripplecasted tsunamis,

near epicenter's mnemonic,

revisited in mutation's memory,

dropped from the isentropy of disregard.

Meaning is not a thing,

not in things,

not in places,

not in spaces,

not in histories,

not in the future,

it's now,

placing all things,

giving accord and account,

to the connection between all disparative elements,

summoning the cadences of a cadmium pulse.

Deep in the veins paper thin membrane,

a will collapsed by fate makes destiny a recipient of hope,

As all along the watchtower,

the guards track the cost of freedom,

made of corporate agreement,

to perpetuate corporate agreement,

at the expense of free will.

This act, making emancipative that which succumbs order,

to the ordainment of collective visions,

made surely of the persuasion and incentives,

of those prepared to manage motivations,

for those who care not,

to be drawn in chariots,

across the Apollonic skies.

Make a *"sophogony" of cosmogony's science,

that myth and observation should breed,

in the fertile imagination of destiny,

where all the Gods retire.

* New word I just made up meaning *the wisdom of the study of origins, I've got well over five hundred words I have made up.  I hope to add as many new words to the English vocabulary as possible, many of them through my abstract language, Challey Giff, but that's a communal project, just as Quark was a word drawn from "Three quarks for Muster Mark” in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939), so too my language is drawn up so that others may find it's ultimate meaning. I create the form, you and the next generation create the meaning.  This makes my work intergenerational in every sense of the term.  Like Portuguese was designed by poets, so too, all languages are evolved by poets, I see my aims as wonderfully connected to the same prospect of building culture, and I see it that one's creativity does not stop at using words, but creating them as well, which I absolutely love to do.  Please search for Challey Giff the poem on my Cosmofunnel account, and you will see what I mean. 

To be great at something you must be obsessed not only with greatness, but with the possibility for improvement acted upon incrementally and constantly. Language makes us all greater than we were, could you imagine a world without language?  Without a doubt it would be far more barbaric! With this prospect in mind, it makes you wonder why people have used their talents to stockpile weapons.  Surely profits are not more important than living life in balance and harmony with Nature? The function of poetry is to correct Human nature, and connect human natures, to humane prospects. Poetry is a humanism, an intentional act. Poetry is the language of chance too, and circumstance, Poetry is the bridge between utterance and community. Poetry is essentially this and many things, but above all a POET is a servant to the public possibility for diverse visions of the good.  It is in my opinion, not possible that a person could be a poet and a fascist, that would simply be a person clever with utterance and persuasion, a poet seeks to highlight the truth, mystery, strategy, and necessity of progression's velvet allure, so to speak.

A poet is a person who brings together and personifies Nature with Culture. An individual, she is someone who sees herself in possibilities drawn from the correction of society off course, and staying the course of development, she evolves the whole potential of groups and their identity. The poet is the recipient of the possibility for understanding made to transition the situation in which no understanding is possible, as such the poet is the antidote to war, whether it be through irony or even through the celebration of tactical victories, the poet celebrates the decisive potential of one's ability to transcend limitation, in the establishment of versions and variations of social order.  In virtue of all of this a poet can be a receiver of forms of chaos, transmitting the transitioning of chaos, into the formation of order that indeed possibly even changes how we perceive chaos as an opportunity for growth. 

The Poets bring as such a synchretism to the polarity of simple goods and evils seeing the good in all things, and understanding the transitory character even of the good in all things...as things flow from one extreme to their opposite.  This process in my estimation however teaches the poet how to be instructive, as they transcend limitations and adopt balances.  In this light, the poet is the catalyst of much great change.  What an esteemed thing it is to be a poet! Poets are the visionaries of unspeakable progress, made utterance, the impossible made possible, the initiators of great understandings and the torchbearers of great novelty and innovation of purpose. Poets unify, they break apart, the codify revolutions in thought, they speak to the softest pulse faint with life, and to the pulse which cascades in the veins of great women and men, who populate the imagination with the envelopopulate! (meaning the apex of human expression).

Poets are the living dreamers of dying worlds, who see through to ways of seeing into the living pulse of the collective will corrected by innate necessity. Poets achieve this while negotiating for the necessity under which some variations of the collective will remain ignorant. As such poets are great in determining the most salient aspects of things, events, and circumstances, in connection to the elements of the essential expressions which the poet rightfully identifies as core to the underlying structure of what is examined.  Poets in other words see through to the connection between things as they examine the underlying nature of things.

The poet is a master not necessarily of observation alone but of the level of determinancy that it takes to draw connection between disparate elements, and as such the poet draws on consciousness with ideas as both palate and brush, as purpose is analogously the overall composition of ones aimful achievement, with ideology achieved by the connection between the poem which is a discourse between generations, and the extemporaneous continuities between sense, experience, culture and nature, in the context of evolving the philosophies that draw unity between ways of seeing, and ways of expressing aspects of something either present in convention, or prescient to approaches that somehow change perspective and yield new insights to potential options.

It's not necessary that a poet uses language, a dancer could be poetic, even an accountant can essentially be a poet in their utterance and approach.  It's HOW expression is used that makes one a poet.  Just as there is an art to anything, so too there is a poetry to everything, the dancing of the spheres is the poetry of physics, it's all dependent on how you want to see things, that is where poetry presides.

The highest skill of any poet, in my humble opinion, is to convince others that they too no matter how limited in their expression, posses poetic potential to express themselves with great success, in transcending the ineffable in making the hidden or unspoken overt and expressive of a potential understanding of deep merit and value.  Such poets show others how it is that those others can evoke harmony or even meaningful discordance in their method, drawing on new expressions and new ways of speaking, acting, showcasing agency and virtue, to culminate the mundane aspects of an expression, as something more than just something bound to the trivial elements of the world of facts alone, their is in their work an appeal to the collective consciousness that develops and progresses individual and consensus conscience, away from the esoteric and purely internal, making the hidden overt.  As such, the world of drawing on the poetic charm of community expressions draws us from a certain presence of "myth" through the creative pulse of the imagination, away from science alone, through a level of science conducted indeed together.  The artist and the audience are one. This aforementioned process makes for us a place in the observing of connections between expressions and essences. IN virtue of this a person is a connection between their own expression and essential potential in ways that elevate one from the commonplace. Poetry evolves perception and agency as such.

Poetry and poets create a new space for which context can emerge and transform perception through a cognitive proprioception, whose character, forms inclusion of other voices.  Through the greater expression of connection between tradition and convention, through novel and innovative development of new and old methods alike, the poet pursues their each own unique purpose and vision.

Poets and poetry are immersed in a humanism, a way of connecting sense and consequence, optimally.  That is something that poets should examine, as they draw on the psychology of persuasion, and the charactericity of possibilities implicit to their each own method and approach. 

Image, poem and writing © Peter Kaleb Theodoropoulos AKA Rockwell Wilder 2016