Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Outside view of German poetry

 

The precise description
the exact denomination
the particularized evocation
is not just a trope
not just myth
but the starting point of all mythologies.

And yet mythologizing
is not generalization.
For generalization effaces
planes out, covers up
what is in fact
mottled, textured, or coarse
fissured and creviced and creased.

Intimately what evokes
the personalized special
the startling distinct
is what starts it all--
the audacious ride 
the dipping, soaring, hurtling flight
the aimless meander
into imagination's unsettled
into fancy's inadvertencies.

Poetry like all art
and all science
inveigles and misleads
unlike only 
in its awareness of its deception--
which it takes good care to conceal--
reflecting paradoxically
the fiery, glacial, rocky, molten, incandescent, pitch-dark, electro-gravitational
universe and its dimensions
within a mere particle
of a word

meandering past
the generalization
to a caveat
distinct and decisive.


Waqas

 

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