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Concerning the Atoms of the
Soul
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Someone explained once how
the pieces of what we are
fall downwards at the same rate
as the
Universe.
The atoms of us, falling towards the centre
the pieces of what we are
fall downwards at the same rate
as the
Universe.
The atoms of us, falling towards the centre
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of whatever everything is.
And we don't see it.
We only sense their slight drag in the lifting
hand.
That's what weight is, that communal process of
falling.
Furthermore, these atoms carry hooks, like burrs,
And we don't see it.
We only sense their slight drag in the lifting
hand.
That's what weight is, that communal process of
falling.
Furthermore, these atoms carry hooks, like burrs,
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hooks catching like hooks,
like clinging to like,
that's what keeps us from becoming something
else,
and why in early love, we sometimes
feel the tug of the heart
snagging on another's heart.
like clinging to like,
that's what keeps us from becoming something
else,
and why in early love, we sometimes
feel the tug of the heart
snagging on another's heart.
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Only the atoms of the soul
are perfect spheres
with no means of holding on to the world
or perhaps no
need for holding on,
and so they fall through our lives catching
are perfect spheres
with no means of holding on to the world
or perhaps no
need for holding on,
and so they fall through our lives catching
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against nothing, like
perfect rain,
and in the end, he wrote, mix in that common well of
light
at the centre of whatever the suspected
centre is, or might have
been.
perfect rain,
and in the end, he wrote, mix in that common well of
light
at the centre of whatever the suspected
centre is, or might have
been.
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~ John Glenday
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(Found in an exceptional
anthology,
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds,
ed. by
Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce)
anthology,
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds,
ed. by
Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce)
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“Poetry, for me, is all about questions, and nothing to do with answers.†John Glenday.
Scottish
poet John Glenday does not “belong to any school of anything – there is
no conscious, theoretical basis behind [his] writing; poetry is simply
the best possible medium [he] can find, under the circumstances, for
saying what needs sayingâ€. He is, nevertheless, an active participant
in literary-cultural enterprises on both sides of the river Tay
estuary. Indeed, Glenday’s sense of contemporary influence is a “Who’s
Who†of contemporary Scottish writing, particularly poetry.
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