[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:40:15 +0900
Geary goes from strength to strength. Can lit-ideas be seeing the birth
of a new great American poet?
John
On 2004/08/09, at 4:55, Mike Geary wrote:
>
>
> ROBERT'S ROCKS:
> A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION
>
>
> Orthodox rocks observe the law:
> "Thou shalt not hop nor run nor walk,
> neither crawl nor slither shall ye, no, nor wiggle by.
> It's further forbidden that ye shall fly."
> So settled in immutable law,
> they imperturbably abide.
>
> But there are Gnostics in the tribe,
> who strive to keep alive,
> the notion that rocks are not just blocks
> of granite, though granted they
> can't get up and walk away,
> still, they are not motionless.
> Rather they are motion itself.
> It shocks the Orthodox
> to hear them talking,
> arguing the very meaning of Walking --
> is it real or merely metaphor?
> Indeed, what is the essence of 'rocking'?
> They recount the sorrows of their journey here,
> recalling all the sockings and knockings they suffered in thrall,
> pushing through the crust.
> Rock Gnosticism claims to know the source and nature of
> the force that called them out of darkness into light.
> It is they themselves, they say,
> who are, each and everyone
> children of the chthonic sun,
> core stuff are they.
> They are the one true Walker,
> A million years they journeyed here,
> barefoot and barely,
> and for what?
> To lie mute and unmoving in the sun?
>
> Comes hither now the head man walking,
> talking, speaking as though he knows where everything goes.
> The Gnostic rocks are amused.
> They who have heard the tumbling rumbling of deep earth's core,
> who know what it means to soar,
> on winds of will.
> Called to, the man moves.
> "Moving to the city," he explains,
> as though he had thought it up himself.
> He picks up a rock and walks to the truck,
> never knowing he's a schmuck,
> "I think you need another place,"
> he says, "one of gravity and grace."
> "Rock on," saith the stone, "rock on."
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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