Words Are Shadows

[theirishsea]

words are shadows
even inanimate things are ideas
Plato had it right
except the thing is prime
the ideas are ghosts
little gods of creation
that move emotions and the limbs
of human beings but do the
chemicals rule, bubble up
provide the elixir, change nothing
into gold and that an atom
with a certain amount of
electrons, protons, neutrons,
the letters Au as symbol
and the weight?
are the numbers not words
concepts, pressures on tongue
mind, scale, and all within
the human, though the real
is dumb, solid, fleeting
but the shadows remain
as it some Shroud of Turin image
but is the Divine not a
natural consequence of
unsatisfactory explanation
of something that the hu
man can't grasp?

[emel.scott]

How the fuck should I know but I like the poem.

[dadio]

Plato, yes I studied the guy back in the 1970s. What is real does not exist, what exists is not real or some such things Like the poem, Irish, enjoyed.

[sweetwater]

squinting into the sun
life becomes
the casting itself

we become the shadow
bodyless and free

from the mortal coil

the sun proposes
that we die

and dying does not sit well with us

so we hide ourselves in the shadow
of words