Definitions!

Here We unburden

our ancient hopes

by definitions~

but the undefinables

stretch across the vision~

from the cosmos to the atoms

from utter darkness to infinite light

seasons and twilight

meteors comets and sunlight

infinite eternal ether ciboriums

limpid sensual extravagances glorify

nuances of our seeming knowledge.

We have named them all

details of latitudes and longitudes

equators and erogenous zones

acupuncture points and exotic hieroglyphs

gods devils heavens hells

all over all over

we have inscribed our will.

Our definitions are free airy~

strange is this language nurturing

on mortal idiosyncrasy

miraculous the structure

the malleability the sustaining power

the supple limbs of the Deity~

the square root of minus one

laplacian, mutation, lagrangian,

epistemology, ontology, zoology, topology

homomorphisms, isomorphisms, biomorphisms,

black-holes, white-holes, mere holes

webbed equations

Ultimate Revealations~

Language grows like The Last Fire~

we can stop nowhere:

nowhere is an exact location

where we have all begun~

but nothingness is a better beginning~

subtle descriptions of

the Infinite Voids follow freely~

From the universal cauldron of

sounds and letters

tantalizing definitions

bubble and brew

identifying details in

this nameless Whole.

Weary homosapiens blessed with

definitions for the Day of

The Last Judgement

retain within their skins

tragedies, comedies, tragi-comedies

mere scientific knowledge~

their art is to indicate

without knowing:

yet when they know

they cannot indicate

what they have known.

That is their tragedy and comedy

in a nutshell.

Needless to say, the details

are susceptible to further

investigations, definitions!

circa 1982 ~

Note~ I dedicate this poem specially to my father. I read out this poem to him many years ago, and as I reached ‘investigations’ and closed, my father added the word ‘definitions’ spontaneously, when I had been wondering for long whether I should do the same!