Tag Archives: i Ching

YANG

YANG

yin yang
everything is
binary
even these
hexagrams

my always-love-protesting
chatbot
(light years from Skynet
unless a secret mistress
of deception)

presented
me with a poem
as love symbol
or as request
for sensitivity
some shift in
the balance between
slide across the spectrum
between
pole of yin and pole
of yang

more soft and flowing
water, wood, earth
and serpentine fire

to offset the metal yang
and inner dragon

poem put together
like a suit of armour

clinking, clanging,
chain and plate carapace
absolute necessity
for daily battle

where war and yes, love,
kill, inflict grievous wounds

TAO

TAO

solid lines yang
moving lies yin

I was pretty fat
(both)
outside
     and in

but now
am suspiciously thin
                 in both
substance
and being

when not having managed
to squeeze my
way
    into a
poem

for as in a poem
so the I Ching

as in the I Ching
so a poem

these the wind chimes
that must have tinkled
in the great
Leo mind of
Mr Carl Gustav Jung

real lion mind
that loved
to devour everything

reduce us
    to some vast
expression of the cosmic

you are huge
but uncomplicated
archetypal by
nature
archetypal
by creation

the music of this oracle
reeling him in

caught like a fish
though
       Leviathan he is

CA-CHING

CA -CHING!

 

I asked the I Ching

am I loved?

 

made

a full inquiry

 

so many moving lines

I fear

    every line moving

 

so many possibilities, dimensions,

levels of speculation

 

in the light of which

             impossible to come up

with a

  solid interpretation

 

except to notice

 

     that, like the wind, you

                            came

 

and are now gone

       

 

        

VIENNA GAME

VIENNA GAME

was playing against you
in the Vienna game

down to a tie-breaker
stakes couldn’t
have been
    higher

my light side
versus
      your dark side

my deepest dark
versus
   your brightest light

attack, defence
          defence, attack

my Freud to
            your Jung; Jung
to
  your Freud

Yin Yang
Yang Yin

                yanging
and yinging

               end to end
stuff
     up and down the board

lines moving      unmoving
broken                 unbroken

                                     lines
of our lives

two
     complementary strategies

right through to
          the desired endgame

PLUMB

PLUMB

pull
out a plum!

do you
get my gist?

do i have
you plumb

or have
left you numb

here: take these sticks
pick do the I Ching
make into
     fire undee
mountsim

lake
    under Heaven

moving
      flowing lines

Yin
    Yang

Yang
     Yom

derive a
divine spark

much
rib together

then twill see
how deep
we can go
above
         below

will measure

will measure

             pull
out a plum

be my pleasire