There it lay on the sands of the beach
A precious stone amidst worthless shards
On its outside, scars from the rough waves
Inside, a brilliance beyond words
On that beach one day walked a girl
Whose search for inspiration along the shore
Ended when she picked up the stone and saw
A beauty that no one had seen before
At that moment it was hard to say
Which was brighter - the sparkle of the stone,
Or the glint in the eyes of the girl
Because she could call that gem her very own
The devotion of an admirer is sometimes as beautiful as the object being admired itself. There is beauty indeed in the eyes of the beholder.
October 23rd, 2010.
On a somewhat related note, here is an old poem of mine from many years ago.
Goddess in Stone
I search for beauty, day and night
To quench my restless and thirsty mind
I drink from every brook I find
But I am still thirsty, I know not why
Then I see her, a goddess in stone
In the middle of a forest, standing alone
Ah, my heart, with joy it leaps
And lands itself right at her feet
Her cold eyes (as cold as stone can be)
Tainted by no feelings, desires, or need
Have a pristine beauty that only I can see
That makes my heart dance with glee
The world thinks I am insane
To waste my life at the feet of a dame
Who cannot love me the way I do
Who cannot say "I am yours too"
But I do not expect the stone to melt
Just to worship at her feet I am content
All of myself I offer at her feet
In the ocean of love I forget I was ever thirsty
August 26th, 2006.
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Nice poems...!!
I'm glad to visit your blog after a looooong time !!
Very nicely expressed, especially the second poem. I'm glad to visit your blog after a long time.
loved this one
nice poetry ...
Oh,both of them are such exquisite, higher-order emotions captured!! Lovely!! The second one is very devotional. Very finely articulated 👏👏
The first poem reminded me of an episode with Heisenberg upon making his discovery of Matrix Mechanics on Helgoland. See link below. I think there was something with Feynman as well - will see if I can recall.
http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2017/09/heisenberg-on-helgoland.html
As it says, based on the autobiographical notes Heisenberg had jotted down:
"It was almost three o’clock in the morning. The night outside seemed to deepen into a deep chasm. He had hardly talked to anyone during his four days on the island, and now it seemed that all that silence was culminating in a full-throated expression of revolutionary insight. The hand of nature and his own dexterous mind had cracked the puzzle in front of him, just as invisible writing is suddenly revealed by the application of the right chemical solution. But the sheer multiplicity of applications that he now foresaw was startling. At first he was deeply alarmed. He had the feeling that, through the surface of atomic phenomena he was looking at a strangely beautiful interior, and now had to probe this wealth of mathematical structures that nature had so generously spread before him.
[...]
His hay fever seemed to have disappeared. He felt strong again. There did not seem much point in trying to fall asleep at this very late hour. He put on his boots and set out. There was a distant rocky outcrop, the northernmost tip of the island that he had not explored yet. He walked in the predawn light. Not a gull cried around him, not a leaf seemed to tremble. An hour later he was at the base of the rock and scaled it without much effort. There he sat for a long time until he saw the first rays of the sun penetrate the darkness. Photons of light falling on his eyes, stimulating electron transitions in atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. And at that moment he was the sole human being on earth who knew how this was happening."
Thank you all for the interesting comments :-) I am checking these comments after a long delay, my apologies.
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