SEEING AND BELIEVING

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SEEING AND BELIEVING

 

 

Cezanne said, "Though the world appears

Complex, it's made of cubes and spheres,

Along with cylinders and cones:

Four fundamentals that, like bones

In flesh, uphold whatever drapes

Variety upon their shapes."

 

"They're doubly basic," Freud said. "These

are more than just geometries:

Your simple solids symbolize

The organs that attract our eyes;

The only subject of the arts

Is men's and women's private parts."

 

The body can as well express

Our sadness and our happiness

And even sex's mindless dance

Portrays the spirit's circumstance

Of oscillation to and fro

Between the cosmic Yes and No.

 

"The world," VanGogh said, "is a face

In which I see my soul's grimace."

But has reality become

Merely emotion's medium?

O universe of forms, I ask

Are you a mirror, or a mask?

 

__Theodore Melnechuk