Wednesday 16 December 2015

Design

courtesy: PU


We have been open

To all the patterns around us

From precision of the season’s pirouette,

To the orbital dance of the cosmic orbs

To each cell’s magical journey

From Birth to death

If there is ‘tyger’*

There is also ‘lamb’

An absolute heaven everywhere

No chaos anywhere at all

We are given a bit of free will too

The choice is ours

The Designer is not without humor

                     

*I used Blake’s spelling of tiger

 

Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Design @ Poets United

20 comments:

  1. precision of the season’s pirouette.... Like that line!!!

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  2. Glad for the designer's humor tho people have so little.
    Love the way you zoom from macro to micro.

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  3. The choice is ours - certainly the fly in the ointment and the flaw in the design maybe - it takes a lot of courage to choose the best things for ourselves...choice is brilliant but also prone to many a poor judgement...a clever and philosophical poem

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  4. "The Designer is not without humor" indeed! Such a powerful & stellar closing line :D


    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  5. Haha-ouch. I look for the heaven that is hidden by the choices off the few over the many. Holding the lamb up in contrast to that tyger is brilliant. I wish I had written this.

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  6. Interesting take. The Greek gods are always having at laugh at our expense whereas the Grand designer is probably rolling his eyes in disbelief at the length that humans go to work against themselves.

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  7. A wonderful expression of the Divine's Midas Touch on us. I felt honored and delighted to read it through your poem. Brilliant!

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  8. I love "the Designer is not without humor" but imagine He is rather dismayed that he gave us free will, given the state pf things. Loved this, Sumana.

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  9. So true. A very thought-provoking poem. Loved it :)

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  10. The grand designer had the Universe fine-tuned for Life! So, let's learn to keep our faith and hope alive. Beautifully done...

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  11. I really like the literal design of this poem. How the lines are arranged. Nice job.

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  12. Curiously I disagree with Jae for I think that the flaws in us are the very things that allow us to keep on being so creative and inventive. Other creatures have barely changed over eons while we studiously sow seeds for our own destruction in our creativity which is so misdirected.

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  13. An absolute heaven everywhere
    No chaos anywhere at all

    Exactly how we've been told of what heaven is like. But are we part of the deserving elements to be accorded the privilege?

    Hank

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  14. Thank goodness for the free will & for the opportunities that we are provided within the grand design!

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  15. Such an inspiring read...glad to have seen this !

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  16. I love the zooming in to molecular level and the contrast with the grand cosmos...beautifully expressed, Sumana!

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  17. Totally agree with Mary! Thanks!

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  18. free will, and "From precision of the season’s pirouette" - well said. Beautiful poem.

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  19. I liked what you did, with what I found to be a difficult prompt.

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  20. i absoutely luv your end line Sumana

    much love...

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