World Of Words
© Surazeus
2018 07 09
We all live in four different mental worlds
that overlap in layers of illusion,
the world in our eyes and the world in words,
that merge and fluctuate in constant change
till world of words reflects world of perception.
The first is the world of physical things,
composed of landscapes and environments
with plants, animals, things, and other people
in which we move our bodies every day
in our quest for food that sustains our minds.
The second is the world of our perceptions,
the model of the real world in our heads
which our brains organize with every moment
we interact with people in our landscape
when we share good food in communal meals.
The third is the world of ontology,
the common world view that explains the world
composed of the stories that people tell
which describe the world we think we perceive
and define rules which guide how we should act.
The fourth is the world we inscribe with words
through writing letters that signify language
which describes the dream world we want to see
expressed in tales we write about the world
that shimmer with fantasy of desire.
The world I move around in every day,
the world I see and think about each hour,
the world we talk about in anecdotes,
and the world we describe in words we write,
are all variations of one real world.
The more the tale world I describe with words
matches the real world I perceive and measure,
the better this poetic world in my verse
reflects the real world other people see
so we experience the same world in song.
What world do you see in these words I write,
and does it match the real world you perceive,
and can we express in words we compose
the vast teeming world of chemical change
that makes us, then swallows us back in death?
© Surazeus
2018 07 09
We all live in four different mental worlds
that overlap in layers of illusion,
the world in our eyes and the world in words,
that merge and fluctuate in constant change
till world of words reflects world of perception.
The first is the world of physical things,
composed of landscapes and environments
with plants, animals, things, and other people
in which we move our bodies every day
in our quest for food that sustains our minds.
The second is the world of our perceptions,
the model of the real world in our heads
which our brains organize with every moment
we interact with people in our landscape
when we share good food in communal meals.
The third is the world of ontology,
the common world view that explains the world
composed of the stories that people tell
which describe the world we think we perceive
and define rules which guide how we should act.
The fourth is the world we inscribe with words
through writing letters that signify language
which describes the dream world we want to see
expressed in tales we write about the world
that shimmer with fantasy of desire.
The world I move around in every day,
the world I see and think about each hour,
the world we talk about in anecdotes,
and the world we describe in words we write,
are all variations of one real world.
The more the tale world I describe with words
matches the real world I perceive and measure,
the better this poetic world in my verse
reflects the real world other people see
so we experience the same world in song.
What world do you see in these words I write,
and does it match the real world you perceive,
and can we express in words we compose
the vast teeming world of chemical change
that makes us, then swallows us back in death?
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