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| Interacting Forms No.2 |
In the Darkest of Shadows
In the darkest of shadows
What waits to be found?
Imagination runs wild
As colourful figures
Shift freely around
In the inner black space
Fantastic gnomes
Dance gaily together
Singing songs of old
With fresh vigour
And splashes of light
Twinkling most invisibly
From reflecting bells
Shak'n silently in the night
And the central fire
Consumeth not its fuel
Burning dark and long
For the dim-lit forms
Which twirl and circle
In an endless display
Of quiet rev'rence
And humility blind
Heard almost inaudibly
The flickering movements
Return to a rest
As the moon descends
From the vastness of space
Leaving only the shade,
The privation of sight,
Whence images sprung
Once vibrant and true
Now only memories,
Left to diffuse
In the quenching darkness,
The darkness of Life.
MS
2025
Themes:
- reality as an appearance, in some ways similar to dreams or imagination
- a light or power prior to illumination ("dark sun")
- implicit references to Plato's cave analogy and imagery
- "privation of sight" used rather than "privation of light", the common latter term referring to a shadow, is a slight play on words with a strong thematic clue or reference regarding the role of visual perception in the construction of a reality based on "appearances".
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