Metaphysical poets - Does the union of science and 'spirituality' work well?

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Fri, 2008-07-11 00:05

I don't know much about metaphysical poetry but I think I get the jist of it and I like the idea.
I am a novice to the whole genre of metaphysical poetry, so if this topic gets discussed I would hope to gain some insight into the whole arena as well as seeing your own metaphysical poetry.
Here is my rather poor attempt!

Grey Metaphysical Psycology.

I attract fear,
Like a magnet,
pulling in those dagger iron fillings,
so I have to draw in a
sudden
sharp
breathe.

Sometimes I am attached to fear and the black and white world it offers.
So I suppose I should just 'let go',
yeah right; like it IS all that black and white!

Fri, 2008-07-11 06:40

mykle

Maybe EVERYTHING IS made up of black and white like a binary cosmos with varying greys simply being the effect you get from your relative viewpoint. Interesting to consider that in such a Universe position would probably be the most fundamentally important variable and the most interesting region would be where blacks and whites were almost equally distributed and hence contained the most subtle combinations.

Mon, 2008-07-14 14:59

Caldwell

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow Perhaps with lines like this it's not surprising that Marvell's mistress was so coy... Mark, What's your view on Richard Dawkins and his book 'The God Delusion'?

Mon, 2008-07-14 23:25

mykle

I’m waiting for someone to write “The Science Delusion” as it can easily be argued that Science is really the main opposition to religion, not atheism, and it is fairly obvious that it is the weapons made possible by scientific research which kill people not the faith of the killers, or indeed of the killed. Does it really benefit man or only his masters. So maybe the real question is... Would we better or worse off without one or both? :O) http://www.abctales.com/story/hadley/salvation

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