These poems focus on a variety of ways that the questions that underlie our perceived existence: “Who Are We? Why Are We Here?” – questions that serve as the foundation for examination and for finding paths and some answers that have come to me over decades, where these get explored. I don’t really ‘know’ if there is AN answer that is universal – although I do postulate one for exploration and pondering.
ZERO POINT FIELD (ZPF)
∞
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Implies that every particle,
Without exception,
Relies for its existence
On a ground field of energy
That is interacting
With everything
Everywhere.
Energy as explicate order
Is enfolded in, and emanates from,
An implicate, transcendent order
Of pure energy
That is infinite and absolute.
Our material selves
What is called manifest form –
May be compared
To a standing cloud
Of no substance
Over a mountain peak
Where a dynamic process
Of condensations and evaporation occurs,
As droplets of water
Form and un-form
In the air
Over the mountain.
∞
Questions
Where will it all end?
Through science and religion
Mankind has pondered
And wondered.
These are questions so immense
That the answers may come
Only through the eternal
We take thin slices
To occupy ourselves –
On a playing field,
At a resort,
For the weary mind.
It comes in the silence
Of a meditative mode.
You know what? Whatever Is –
Is all that there Is.
Is the physical world,
In the otherwise Perfect Universe? -Or-
Is it that
In our perfect Universe Contains
What we have Otherwise thought
At just over
The limit of our ability
Then we will never
Be able to perceive Creation -Or-
Is it rather that Creation (and the Creative Force)
It continues,
It continues
On Course
Nothing ever goes wrong;
Each heart lives to love,
Each voice to give song.
Smooth, not knurled,
Spirit’s manifestation
Experiencing the material world.
A part of the Creator,
A chip off the sublime
We are energy existing
In space and in time.In this
Nothing ever goes wrong;
Each soul lives to give,
Each voice to make song.
Each time we awaken
From the eternal soup,
We go off a-questing
And return to regroup.
Unconscious creates our reality;
Consciousness bears her fruit;
It is for us only
To conceive as we would suit.
Nothing ever goes wrong,
Each spirit lives to unite,
Each voice sings that song.
You and Me
All is ONE, and
One is ALL, and
IN THE BEGINNING
There was God, and
There was a beginning,
That was, is, and will be
Evolving (or ending?), and
You and me –
(We are one you know)-
Beginning end
To
End beginning.Then,
How to figure out
What is the job
We have to do
In this SPACE?
That all there is
Is NOW,
Then presence –
PRESENCE –
n this NOW
Is what is required.
Awareness,
Of the glue
Holding the atom,
And holding
The three hundred billion galaxies
Each containing three hundred billion suns –
Energy
So vast, and
Space even vaster.Space,
Absolute zero (we thought)
Around Black Holes
Absolutely hot
(‘We” haven’t been there yet).
Ying/Yang
Everything/Nothing.
YOU and ME,
Creation,
Evolution,
Devine energy.
The saying goes:
“You can’t see
The forest for the trees.
Lost in
You AND me?
Listen
Listen to the whispers
Of the Universe:
The eternal vibrations
That underlie all sounds.
Listen to the sensations reflecting
Each soul’s story
In this time
And in this place
We call our life.Listen
Listen to the thundering silence —
The silence that inspires;
The silence that supports;
The silence that determines and defines
The vessel that contains the bounds and boundaries
Of existence – of possibilities;
Of all that ever was;
Of all that is;
Of all that will ever be.
The notes we play
Have a deeper melody –
A baseline and rhythm
Listen to a melody that knows the sounds –
Before the Beginning;
The sounds of what will be
After the End.
No crashing symbols;
No Ode to Joy;
No Angel’s choir;
. . . A Silence . . .
That is much,
Much more.
Listen to the ebb and flow,
The ebb and flow of
The Eternal Seas of Creativity.
It laps upon each shore,
It soothes the weary,
It inspires and uplifts.
It is from where we came,
And to where we shall return.Love
Love is created from the silence;
From the space between the notes.
Listen to the music of silence!
Listen to the music of love
The Restless Sea
Once again returns
To its seduction of the shore:
To tempt, to caress,
To tenderly wet and smooth,
And, at times,
To frothingly pound and ravage,
All according to the mysteries
Of the pulling and pushing forces.
Pounded or caressed,
Smoothed or roughened,
Await the next surge –
Not quite sure in our expectation.
We await,
Knowing surely that it,
IT will come,
Then withdraw,
Gone once more
Returning to the Eternal Sea,
Leaving us with the memory
Of a wave from the Ocean of Time.
The majesty of the shore,
As the waves hit and withdraw –
Some as smooth and impeccable
As the infinite grains of sand
Washed between the ebb and flow,
Some grow or incarnate as
Jetties of rocks.
In the jetty of humanity,
Extending into the Eternal Sea,
We are worn and changed
By the restless sea –
Into the Sea’s mass –
Becoming once again
Part of the whole.
Combine to form the shore,
The substance of what we call
Life –
Clean and white,
The Foundation for the future,
Building on the past
For a purpose, undefined –
Yet divine.
© Mary Lou Quinn
The Droplets of Life
Are held in a crashing
Tumultuous sea,
Riding the tides,
Their ebbs and their flows,
Emerging.
Washed up upon the shore Is gone . . .
Except that we know
The traces of their presence,
The legacy of what was.
They have made their indelible marks.
They have returned
To enrich and make
More perfect
The Eternal Sea.
For the cycle –
For the legacy,
Their contributions.
May we never lose
Awe of what transpires.
Who Sayz?
Two hundred billion,
Someone sayz –
That’s how many Stars they say there are –
The calculation is
10^24 stars.
That’s a 1 followed by twenty-four zeros.
Where will they go?
Someone said:
“They come from the Creator –
From a Big Bang.”
Imagine that noise!
There’s lots more ‘stuff’
We don’t know about –
Real dark stuff:
Stuff that really holds things in.
What’s on the other side of that?
And, by the way,
What was before the Beginning?
What will be after
The End?
There’s another way
To look at things:
Move our concept of
Beginning and End,
Move our concept
Of left to right,
Of yesterday and tomorrow
To only NOW –
And NOW,
And NOW is infinite –
Not only is IT “possible,”
But everything just “IS.”
The two hundred billion times
Two hundred billion
May be just a drop in the bucket.
Think about all the life
Teaming here
Just on this ONE planet.
Think about all
Your thoughts, and
All your dreams, and
All the possibilities
You KNOW are possible . . .It is like
A long row of eateries –
And just as we stop at McDonald’s –
Not because it is good,
But because we KNOW it –
We aren’t threatened;
We are comfortable with the familiar.
So huddle the masses;
Who wants to walk to the edge
And jump?
Of course it is scary,
And FEAR is so controlling –
So determinative.
Two hundred billion –
That is a lot of sunshine.
Walk to the edge . . .
Why not jump?
You can’t?
The Many Are One
The voices become a chant,
Sung together.
It is variations
On a theme:
The beat of our ONENESS
Is solid, pervasive,
Resonating and filling all space.
Clean and compelling –
Like the notes of
Master Beethoven’s Fifth.
The variations:
Billions of us
Playing with these notes
On instruments we have modified
And individualized.
Their names,
Their silences –
The space between the notes.
Playing the spheres
Of Eternal Spirit’s Orchestra,
Communicating more than we know
How to hear.
Listen, listen,
The music is eternity.
At first, the discordance
Of the orchestra tuning –
Working to create the pitch,
Striving for harmony.
The baton falls,
Enlightenment enters;
Cacophony becomes waters
Falling over the cliff,
Plunging into a deep pool . . .
Of BLISS.
Dimension
Onion-layered.
We move along
A green-white sliver,
Bending back upon ourselves.
For the unnamed mechanism.
Unnamed?
It seems man’s quest
Has been to find that label.
And all philosophy’s semantics;
And all of discovery’s yields
Have been a left-brained tour-de-force
To come to another layer
In the onion-layered Universe.
Maybe even understand;
Some, maybe, can even commute
Among the dimensions.
We peel back the green-white slivers,
Looking for the truth about ourselves.
Then what?
Our onion plays with untold numbers
Of other onions –
New dimension:
Onion/layer/onion –
A universe of onions.
Onion Universe plays
In a league
Of all kinds of vegetables.
Each, put together,
In different ways.
Beyond that?
Leagues of all kinds
Of growing things.
And beyond that?
An infinity of beyond,
Of Universes,
Of Gods.Onion-layered Universes,
Peeling back the green-white slivers,
Opens the mind and being
To answers
And more questions
Going to two points
And the line that connects them
Is everything, is creativity,
Is the eternal Now.
Can even start from that line
That is everything
And explode it,
And stand on it,
And be with the infinite other lines.
And Explode
AND EXPLODE !!!!!
HALLALUJAH!
Wow . . . wow . . . wow!
And
All
You
Gotta
Do
Is
Let
It
Be.
WHEW!!
Spining wheels –
Streaking meteorites;
Foaming rapids.
Pounding heart;
Panting breath;
Funny stomach;
Swollen brain.
Excitement;
Newness;
Creativity;
Fresh/breezy/sparking.
Turn on . . .
Turn on . . .Whew!!
And I Sit On The Deck
The human race
In its petty pace
Is evolving
On the shore.
That within us dwell
Stretch back
To a spark from the Sea –
Nothing more.
Wondering what to expect:
What has this life
Got in store?
Filling out all the
Parts of my days
With creative energies
Coming to the fore.
That charts the course
And, in the end,
Tallies the score?
What is it
Behind life’s door?
Wondering who gets the check –
What has this life
Got in store?
Is connected
One tells;
We are linked together
Forever more.
And the Sea calls
To each part of the Race
To pick up its pace
To move in,
Away from the shore.
Each cell,
Each star –
Listen . . . here it is:
Big Bang’s Primal Roar!
Oh, what the heck,
We are Now and Here,
We are all ONE,
Forever more.
Time
Minutes, hours, days –
Steady flow of events,
Upon events,
Upon events.
Things, places, people –
Remembering lives and loves;
Lines in space;
Creating past . . .
Anticipating future.
Blessing or curse?
Remembering no time,
No place –
Blissful all nothing.
With things and no things;
Going past creation;
The eternal void.
Meeting pure love,
Peace.Time:
An ‘interesting’ creation
For embodiment to relate;
For being on a plain
Where material selves
Can dance.
Of the Universe.
Of Being –
The place and space
That time underlies
And surrounds.Time:
Hold it in your palm;
Turn it around
And inside out:
Play with it.
Time drags;
Time stands still;
Timeless –
Whose time?
Got the time?
Tock.
Forever more.
Irresistible
Tops a comely landscape
Of gently weathered
Hills and vales.
I walk proud and strong
On the high road to selfdom.
Always burned to drive
Down the path to tomorrow?
Did spent sands
From The Eternal Sea
Cover molten creativity,
Stuffing the eruption?
Within the Universe
Of endless circles,
Flies off in a tangent
Of creative confusion.
We Can Be One
Than the obligatory
Saying in words
And knee-jerk reactions.
More –
Than external acts
For others to see and applaud;
More –
Than recounting what was;
Or anticipating
What could be.
That is The ONE
That moves you,
Thinks you,
Spirits you,
Is you.
A spirit that dances
In the space between the stars;
Lighting not only galaxies,
But also, other souls.
Holding a mirror
Of clearest cut diamonds
For you to see
Your many facets
And how your soul glows.
That we are ONE in many ways.
I sense that attraction
Will pull us into a world –
A world of meaning;
A world of knowing –
Knowing Who We Are
And
Why We Are Here.
It is the path to be followed.
As you so wisely said:
“It never gets boring!”
What is the best and only thing
ONE can offer.
We are
ONE.
Liminal Moments
Imbue our lives
With mystery and meaning.
These are the inexplicable experiences
In which the visible
And the invisible worlds overlap.
Of timelessness with time,
Expressed through metaphor and poetry.
These are the soul-level perceptions –
Subjectively significant –
Understood in the heart.
These experiences,
Provide intimations
Of a divinity in ourselves
And in the Universe.
And of after-death communication.
They are called sychronistic,
Psychic or mystical experiences.
