The Impossible Machine
MOTISM 1: An Iterative Poem
PRETEXT/PRELUDE
waves crashing
or not crashing
the heart leaps
flirtatious wave
apprehension
this is comedy
destruction
desolation
this is tragedy
flirting with death
expecting the worst
this is tragicomedy
PART 1
brinkmanship default familiar territory
war peace deity
extremism reason answer themselves
madness the method of madness different things
singularity systems a ground for comparison
nature law compatible
self universe one
knowing becoming a knot
wisdom suffering intelligence
principle bleeding promise
soul revealing mystery
divinity past sight holy
gods infinitely good
archetypes immeasureably valued
meanings qualified by articulation
truth being intricate
motism living byzantine
mind sprawling labyrinth
reactor passages codex
heart verses secret
psyche written dark
wild annotated sublime
PART 2
liberated deep beauty
unfettered layers bloom
escaping onion flower
fugitive unity heady
lawless everything returns
laws are territorial again
justice categorical duplicates
order axes ennumerated
levels mapped hierarchy
existence concept ladder
book of qualities ideation transcendent
dreams history to walk above
heart story mind story heaven
parable theory answers
hidden truth, answers hidden, truth answers
secrecy scries socracy
hermeticism labeled rhetoric /evil symbolic (vis.
‘impressions’, ‘birth of distinctions and the
distinction of distinctions’)
metaphysics dubbed logical
philosophy declared reason
bookmanship swearing light
waves crashing
or not crashing
the heart leaps
flirtatious wave
apprehension
this is comedy
destruction
desolation
this is tragedy
flirting with death
expecting the worst
this is tragicomedy
PART 1
brinkmanship default familiar territory
war peace deity
extremism reason answer themselves
madness the method of madness different things
singularity systems a ground for comparison
nature law compatible
self universe one
knowing becoming a knot
wisdom suffering intelligence
principle bleeding promise
soul revealing mystery
divinity past sight holy
gods infinitely good
archetypes immeasureably valued
meanings qualified by articulation
truth being intricate
motism living byzantine
mind sprawling labyrinth
reactor passages codex
heart verses secret
psyche written dark
wild annotated sublime
PART 2
liberated deep beauty
unfettered layers bloom
escaping onion flower
fugitive unity heady
lawless everything returns
laws are territorial again
justice categorical duplicates
order axes ennumerated
levels mapped hierarchy
existence concept ladder
book of qualities ideation transcendent
dreams history to walk above
heart story mind story heaven
parable theory answers
hidden truth, answers hidden, truth answers
secrecy scries socracy
hermeticism labeled rhetoric /evil symbolic (vis.
‘impressions’, ‘birth of distinctions and the
distinction of distinctions’)
metaphysics dubbed logical
philosophy declared reason
bookmanship swearing light
Poems are
copyright 2001-2007
Nathan Coppedge
(pen name
Eucaleh Terrapin)
copyright 2001-2007
Nathan Coppedge
(pen name
Eucaleh Terrapin)
