The Virtue Well. by gnosisonG at Share Poetry

Interlinking pineal glands the Peripheral

Visionary and I bestrode the filament

Highways of woven light lancing

The chasm tethering luminosity to clay.

We upheld judicious discourse concerning

Many affairs and would pause, in temporal

Fashion, to regard the verity of our

Suppositions against the chthonic back-

Drop of cold rock and fissured Reason.

We died a thousand deaths to test each

Moot point and grew so discombobulated

Casting dizzy spells, we came within hairs-

Breadth of toppling off our necks but held

Our tongues during vital moments presaging

Enbrightenments when equilibrium loses non-

Sense of moral fibrosis while equivocal natures

Reassert their dependence on disconcerting certainties.

For stone is never just stone,

Darkness never mere vacuum,

Virtue never only pure

And we…

We are not real, I croon, slapping her hard across rouge cheek.

Remember that, I chorus, twisting auburn pigtails chained to my

Fist, pulling her head backwards, baring snow-white throat and

Swaying jugs, gripping with free hand her delicate chin forcing

Her lips apart in excessive pout, before, quivering with desire, I

Seal her misty mouth with a musky phallic kiss.

Only Nothing is real .

SayIhearmyselfthinkIhearmyselfsay…

like an echo

down a deep, deep well.

Author notes

I´ve completed the collection this piece adheres to. This being the second part after RopeDancers.

The homophonic Virtue Well explores the duality of our natures and remarks upon differing aspects of the Pit. The Well of Souls or The Weal of Arseholes?

More lofty ideals brought low.

How virtual is real?

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mr backwards
January 18, 2009

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a nightmarish epiphany!
So strange that the very chemicals that give our minds reason can also induce MADNESS!
Indeed, did you know that DMT is produced in REM sleep as well as when the body shuts down from the inescapable fate of death? a final good-bye from the brain, it seems... is our closing line a whole new dream?
very interesting psycho-thriller, this is a beautiful piece that I'm going to read again

best regards gnasherG
Sergent Reversal
- gnosisonG
  January 19, 2009
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  Cheers Mr B.
  Interesting about the DMT and the 21 gram moment of death.
  Our closing line the advent of a new dream? Poetic thoughts for sure, mate. Transition or apotheosis?
  Morpheus is the all too dominant ruler of my nighttime repose, yet dreams, if imbued with enough conscious lucidity, can enable our minds to explore certain dichotomies of light and dark aspects of personality without harming directly our surroundings.
  Thanx for excellent input as usual, Mr B.
  
  warmest regards Resurgent Reversal!
  
  gG´nite
Gagiikwe
January 9, 2009

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trashed your garden again did you?
As Ferlinghetti said in the druggy 60's, "a Coney Island of the mind".

Or perhaps Shakespeare: "sound and fury signifying nothing."

Well gG, at least I reads it.
language: 3, rhythm: 1, form: 1.
- gnosisonG
  January 11, 2009
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  Sigh!
  Chalk and cheese and never the twain shall meet.
  Seems you have neither the will nor the wherewithal to glean much satisfaction from my scribblings, Gagiikwe. And unless it was a lobotomy you received whilst recently hospitalised, I can´t for the life of me see why you bother.
  
  gG
- - Done
    January 11, 2009
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    Hee-hee...
    It's ok, gG. The world rarely comprehends true genius when encountered. I see you, buddy.
    
    al
Zer02003
December 6, 2008

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*starts flicking through his dictionary*
Love the way it flows and the last part like an echo loved it.Does make me feel really simple though lol
- gnosisonG
  December 8, 2008
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  Cheers Zer02003
  Very glad you enjoyed the flow and the echo and from what I´ve read of your work you are far from "simple", mate.
  Thanx again.
  Regards
  
  gG
RoisinDubh
December 6, 2008

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Oh man, this brings me back to my giddier, psych study days before I packed it all in for a paycheck and the thrill of financial struggle in a world not meant for the middle class.

This is a fantastic piece brilliant in all senses of the word, (though maybe I could turn my monitors backlight off :-P), your poems always cause me to think, and as that is what I most enjoy doing, I can only thank you for provoking. Great job, keep it up!
-RD
- gnosisonG
  December 8, 2008
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  Thanx RoisinDubh!
  I suppose these times of financial "adjustments" pack a giddy thrill in themselves and since you write poetry the terms psych and study are I´m sure, still highly relevant. Cheers.
  
  Warm regards
  
  gG
dave ochs
December 5, 2008

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hey gG
read the poem once and said hhhmmmm, and gave it another crack and got even more confused, so then i read Dun'd comment hoping for clarification and got even more lost...

so here's my interpetation, we have the seven chakas, the base chaka is mulhadra at the base of the spine, which controls the sex energy and appeals to our lower nature. traveling up the spine we have the higher chaka's like the third eye or anja and we can send the energy down and spend our lives fucking around or up to be refined for enlighenment and all that.
dave
- gnosisonG
  December 7, 2008
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  Namaste Dave!
  Reckon you pretty much nailed it there Mr Ochs, in your usual concise no-beating-off-about-the-bush way.
  Your confusion does you proud!
  
  Cheers mate
  
  gG-spot
Done
December 5, 2008

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You know I'm a mystery lover and...
I am never disappointed in your work, gG. I think it'd be great to see a video made my you, as I think it would be a veritable 24/7 mind-blowing Pink Floyd-esque experience that would hang, burned into my mind, for the ages. Your poetry does the same thing.

Now you see, what I see here is that wisp of thought harbored in the back of the mind that knows the ins and outs of cerebral function intimately and can dance along the edge of implication without falling off into the heaviness of leaden inculcation. The mind loves to infer, the mind loves mystery and to feel clever. You know, the "a-ha" that comes when you've cracked the case and can reign triumphant over the cerebral foe of uncertainty? That's what the mind loves. Writing is a veritable playground, and you, my friend, are master of the monkey bars.

Here's what I thought as I read this: I had this image of a Deep-Sea Angler fish dangling his dangler before a fish before him, luring the seemingly unseeing prey in...but as the dangling angler illuminates before his strike, his glow actually lights the reality that his prey is but the dangler of another angler. The second dangler illuminates and then it's revealed that there is yet a third angler with a dangler of a different sort and so on. It was quite an interesting image and thought to me. Because people are like that.

I think that intellect is the capacity to hold a thought within a thought within a thought within a thought and to keep track of all the reference points along the way with the ability to define every subset both inclusively, exclusively and holistically , as in the gestalt of the thought collage enabled by the ability to interlink all sets as patterns occur. To comprehend this is to grasp what it means to nuance one's writing with a background beyond the surface appearance. You display this powerfully in your writing and it always comes together in the end. You are fully conscious of your creations. Me? I write subconsciously, letting the gestalt of my underlying feelings act as rudder to the piece. I then look back at the wake and determine whether the path is navigable to the reader. Many times it is not. I'm still working on it as it is often full of unintended foibles. But you? You've perfected it. The only problem is that few intellects rival your own for the means of full comprehension of your meaning. But I'm certain that Mensa would get absolutely all giggly

So, anyway, I'll cut to the chase: this poem explores the nuance of mind games doable only by the wondrous word-imbibing vertebrate that is us. Or in other words, the capacity of: "I know what you're thinking I'm thinking you're thinking I'm thinking and I've thought about the whole thing and I think that you think that I think I know what you are thinking I'm thinking. And, after perusal of all pertinent information, I think I'm sure but not sure what to think."

Anyway, this would be longer, but I think the damned sharepoetry auto-save feature polls after every letter so as to capture every bit of my response and it is maddening how the words on the screen cannot keep up with my typing. Perhaps it ought to be synchronized with my wpm so as to be seamless and unnoticeable. Anyway, I think that you see that I see what you think I think you're thinking here. But now I'm confused and my head hurts and my Russian Doll-wrapped thoughts have just imploded...or have they. hahahahahahahahahahahahah...

Surely you espouse these same views and are not red and white-knuckled in the reception of such in my mistaken views. I pray I've mated my mind to reason with this assumption. If not, oi vey!! the polling may commence.. Or is caning the proper term?

This was great, gG.

Your much meaner* word-wrangling pal,

al

*low, abased. Having nothing whatsoever to do with meanness of the ornery sort. I'm a nice fella.
- gnosisonG
  December 7, 2008
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  Dingle Dangler!
  May I reiterate my appreciation for the funtastic comment, Al.
  Your image of the series of Angler fish dangling their lures is a true Matruska Doll of poetic imagery!
  And as usual you add to and enrichen the basic thoughts I try to frame with your imaginative (yet inherently cogent) extrapolations.
  
  "..letting the gestalt of my underlying feelings act as rudder to the piece. I then look back at the wake and determine whether the path is navigable to the reader. "
  What a great way of describing poetry writing! I am certainly "guilty" of applying this method, infact the salient reason I´m attempting to use basic alchemical symbology and guidelines is to to entrench my rudder in a firmer wake.
  But.
  Though I can admire the discipline and effort involved, I think if the general scribbler becomes TOO predisposed to pre-planning a piece the endresult can often be rather staid and lifeless. For myself if, to avoid a desultory outcome, I nail down a detailed synopsis I merely end up killing the spark and feeling: ok its already written (in my head), so whats the point?
  I realise this skewed attitude is horrendously unprofessional and alludes simply to a dearth of discipline but... oi vey as you say.
  To go with flow is more than half the fun and the worthiest results are wrought I believe through a combination of rightbrain lunacy and lefthemisphere lucidity both steeped in the vitriolic juice of an experience-saturated subconsciousness. There you go.
  
  "I know what you're thinking I'm thinking ..." etc. Hahahah an excellent way of describing (and exposing satirically the conceit of) hermetic writing!
  
  While writing the Peripheral Visionary collection I´ve been following (in my own mundane profane way) a fascinating "Guide to Personal Transformation" entitled The Modern Alchemist" by R. and I. Miller based largely on Jungs teachings. One aspect is dredging the ego and facing your demons which proved to be so engrossing that instead of transforming my jaded id to a transcendent "being of light" (ahem,gag,splutter) I appear to be stuck in the Nigredo (shadow) state. Ah bolloxs!
  Anyway the Virtue Well is about descending into ones depths with the best of intentions and a goodly guide to discover through gnosis the shit which floats to the surface - the base animalistic instinctual depravity we all know (and love?) which our higher selves try to be free of.
  
  When sunken within ignominy all our best intentions seem an echo. When/if ever transcendent will our previous lusts and insensate desires also feel like an echo?
  How virtual is reality? How real is an echo?
  
  And that, my friends, was your moment of zen.
  
  Cheers
  
  thruthelookingGlass
rhetorica
December 5, 2008

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The less intelligent you are the more rubbish you believe in so its better to be stupid so on that basis I can only assume that you believe in absolutely nothing
This is so far ahead of anything I have ever read on here,I was humbled reading it even though I dont really understand it
your poetry blows me away and I often read your comments as they are so good,this is just the way it is but you know all this anyway
so enough phallic kisses from me and long may you grace sharepoetry
bye
Rhetorica
- gnosisonG
  December 6, 2008
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  Cheers a Myriad, Rhetorica!
  You are too bloody generous by half, my friend! But thanxamillion, mate. "Enough phallic kisses" indeed. Hahah!
  Alchemy is a road map for the inclusion of certain symbols and metaphors - once you (after a fair bit of practice on my part) understand them they aren´t too difficult to utilise on a basic level. Fundamentally they concern themselves with the processes of transformation by delving into the psyche. In order to improve we must expose our dark natures (I dwell far too much on this aspect I´m afraid).
  Btw I just noticed I had an older version submitted - the wrong one! Bastard! I´ve changed it now. Not a huge difference but a smoother flow I thought.
  
  Cheers again Rhet!
  
  gG