Why does sorrow burrow at the hollow of our heart
When we know each “Merry Meet“ is followed by a “Merry Part“?
Should not joy as deeply dwell when we think ahead to when
Every “Merry Part“ is followed by a “Merry Meet Again“?
[composed upon leaving the Boar's Head Feast of Caer Anterth, December 4, 2004.
intended for singing at that night's Bardic Post-Revel, which, alas, I could not attend.]
© 2004 C. M. Joserlin, “Raven“
Bend with life, don’t fossilize;
rigid vision blinds the eyes;
faith — unchanging — petrifies;
frozen truths turn into lies;
even God, imprisoned, dies.
© 1984 C. M. Joserlin, “Raven”
Why do hopes to help mankind
end as guns at human heads?Iron Maiden
See the trap, before it shuts,
of seeming starry-eyed ideals;
This coldly abstract caring cuts
the flesh its kindly case conceals.
Philosophy’s a hurtful suit,
too hard and sharp for human needs;
Beneath the blade of Absolute,
the mortal body breaks and bleeds.— C. M. Joserlin, “Raven”.
From Crooked Timber: “Faking da funk and faking the physics”
Raven 10.15.06 at 9:00 pm 115
“... you seem to be getting dangerously close here to an argument which would imply that non-physicists don’t really understand what an apple is....”
— Daniel in #62.The apple falls; but particle or wave?
To grasp and taste might seem the way to tell,
Yet Heisenberg gives us a warning grave:
We’d just obscure where or how fast it fell;
And, harder news, to watch also does that.
We who can’t touch, nor see, must speculate.
Thus it partakes, with Ernst’s endangered cat,
Of plural, mixed, or undetermined state.
In many worlds, perhaps all needs are met,
One apple falls to all our waiting hands;
But in this world, the much more likely bet
Is falling once. We wait for where it lands.
At last it hits upon diffraction’s cause —
But what comes through the grate is merely sauce.(C.M. Joserlin, 10/15/2006. Thanks, Daniel!)
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