ENTWINED: Some Thoughts About Death, Life, and Reality breezes passing across quivering leaves also hover near awakening seeds winds whispering across silent graves also surround the mouths of babes death and life embrace in many ways and those watching closely can become detached from this complex & changing charade Ron: The idea that humans can perceive reality is an appealing fiction. At most, we might sense small snippets of some truth. However, there is so much we fail to see! Lis: (sipping some wine and smiling) How do you know that? Ron: To be honest, I don't. I sense it, but might be misguided. Lex: Yeah, I think we should listen to our intuitions, while acknowledging that we're fallible. Our most cherished beliefs might be entirely incorrect. Lis: (nodding) Neither blind faith nor endless skepticism lead to wisdom: perhaps balanced pragmatism is best. Linda: (getting bored of this conversation as the alcohol works on her brain). Yeah, yeah - whatever you say! (pausing, then to herself) Ah, humans seem to play with words in the same way that monkeys play with their genitals. ===================================================================================== from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A conversation and poem about the coexistence of death and life and our inability to fully perceive reality. KEYWORDS: balanced pragmatism, human limitations, living fictions, word play Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ) Begun: 1985 in Nagoya, Japan ✠ Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/chakrasamvara.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/priest.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: http://www.tnewfields.info/de/geumsch.htm ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/entrelazado.htm FRANÇAIS: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/entre.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kakawari.htm ZHŌNGWÉN: http://www.tnewfields.info/zh/**.htm