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December 3, 2021
Sonnet: Darkness Visible
By John Hawkins
Sonnet: Darkness Visible--Title taken from the memoir by William Styron that is considered a classic in detailing the state of depression. Here the daily sonnet examines our need to connect with the cosmos again. It means putting aside everything once in a while and looking up alone at a dark sky. Perspective. .
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Sonnet: Darkness Visible
by John Kendall Hawkins
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Unknown, invisible and unaccountable
are the darkling forces that have always ruled us.
We get off on the light, plant Christmas bulbs in space --
at least, that's how I see dear Tannenbaum's face --
to mark the ontological ruse that tooled us
into believing that wisdom is bountiful.
We'll shuffle cards now, paradigms as jokers,
talk the New Age of Man, holographic desire;
self-made serpents to a new Edenic Fall.
Rapt, presents under Yuletide tree in the mall,
listening to the piped-in plastic wonder choir,
you're alone amidst all the teary-eyed chokers.
This Christmas season gift yourself a view:
Go off-grid, backyard, look up at vis-a-vis you.
Intense Flash From Milky Way's Black Hole Illuminated Gas Far Outside of Our Galaxy
(Image by NASA Hubble from flickr) Details DMCA
Authors Website: https://tantricdispositionmatrix.substack.com/
Authors Bio:
John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.