Hunger's Needle
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf - Walter Lippmann
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Hunger's Needle
Acumen's voice smolders quietly
when deafened ears respond only
to discords of witlessness
Wisdom's heat invites comfort
its embers remain alive
its wake of constant resolve
lifts vigils of swirling persuasion
choking away illiteracy
ignoring cross or sickle waved ominously
Ever present
Creation's insight
remaining airborne in a void for those
with causeless breath being held
affecting not its surroundings
forever stale ether locked
roiling chasms of fear
exuding odiferous spoilage
rotting
polluting
repelling
Such misery holds steady
among repeated indulgences of flesh
the masses' quintessential reptilian skin
long overdue for shedding
But cling it must
this resistance to reflection and growth
feeling safe in unknowing
the rewards of philological pondering
Sign and verbal
touch and smell
eye and ear
an all-sensitive motion
making ready transference from literal
to ethereal possession
For some
a chosen distance is preferred
a huddled observation from
deep in the abyss of ignorance
self-importance perishing alone
amidst a cacophony of unresolved noise
while wisdom's whisper
continues to thread hunger's needle
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Ron
touch and smell
eye and ear
an all-sensitive motion
making ready transference from literal
to ethereal possession
This is the nub of the matter to me, Odin. And that most unique image of wisdom's lingering whisper threading hunger's needle. I'm a little hung up on the WL quote you start with: I think the vibrations felt from music must transfer to the deaf audience its own wisdom and would question whether, in fact, wisdom is its own perceiver or interpreter. Perhaps I'm wondering whether wisdom is inherently innate or acquired and learned. Thank you for always, ALWAYS, making me think with your tapestry of understanding words. xx
budd