The word "potpourri" means "container of things that can be poured out," usually a mixture of small things, such as a potpourri of flowers or a potpourri of mixed beans. I first used the label for my file of segmented parts of my own illustrations, such as skies or heads, which might be re-usable in other of my images. Afterward, I used it to mean my mixed bag of works for my blog. -Roberta



Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I wrote notes for this poem in 2008 but never got around to writing it, preferring to concentrate on more timely themes.  I went back to it and wrote it in the past month. 
                                                                                               --------Roberta

"FEATHERLESS BIPED"

Is that who we are, pinned projections, rotund protrusions?
Is our shape, mammalian, bi-pedal, definition of our measure?
Is our essence curvilinear hemispheres which provoke intrusions,
Vertical shaft of leg, splayed trapezoidal foot under pressure?

Is our shape, mammalian, bi-pedal the definition of our measure?
We are more like the scintillant energy which smithys palpable that stride,
The vibrance sentient coursing through that staunch foot under pressure,
The visible is wrought of pulsing consciousness into outward form plied.

We are more like the scintillant energy which smithys palpable that stride,
Emotive prods that spur to joy, fear, grief, hatred, or devotion.
Emotions wrought of agitant vectors into sensibility are plied.
They bourrée, jetté; plié, and arabesque, trajectiles plaited into passion.

Emotive prods that spur to joy, fear, grief, hatred or devotion,
Actions which to actions of deliberation us impel
Bourrée, jetté; plié and arabesque; trajectiles plaited into passion.
Resultant action, deliberation, is the animate action quintessential.

Emotive prods are actions which to actions of deliberation us impel.
We are summary of their impetus, their outward decisive focus.
The resultant action, deliberation, is the animate action quintessential
But intellection, deliberation using symbol, has here on earth just us as locus.

Transcending the summary of impetus, the world is intellect's outward ultimate focus.
Geometries and formulas, words, lines, sounds, and colors limn our earthly percepts.
Intellection, deliberation using symbol has here on earth just us as locus.
Wondrous interactive, symbolic intellect conveys from mind to mind our concepts.

Geometries and formulas, words, lines, sounds, and colors limn our worldly percepts.
Uses of symbol to rabble rouse or exhortations to transcend are also intellective actions.
Wondrous interactive, symbolic intellect, bonding mind to mind with precepts:
Opinions, convictions, laws, religions, propaganda, rules, conventions.

Use of symbol to rabble rouse and exhortations to transcend are also intellective actions.
Intellection's uses of symbol empowers every self with Choice:
Opinions, convictions, laws, religions, propaganda, rules, conventions.
Scintillant palpable strides limning formulations, every self an energetic synapse, one locus of a worldly voice.

Intellection's uses of symbol empowers every self with Choice.
We are the transparent sinews of ideas' conveyance, the tendons of mind to mind.
Scintillant palpable strides limning formulations, every self an energetic synapse, one locus of a worldly voice.
How can something so diaphanous as these tendons have such tensile strength to bind?

We are the transparent sinews of ideas' conveyance, the tendons of mind to mind,
Recounters of observations, formers of ethos' scaffolding of nations and religions.
How can something diaphanous as these tendons have such tensile strength to bind?
Who would loose us from true witness, insistent that our essence is pinned projections, rotund protrusions,
Deluded cynics promulgating self-satisfied exclusions, contemptuous distortions, jaded intrusions?
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