Illumination Poem

Summary

The "Illumination Poem" section titled "The Tidal Pendulum" reflects on the bay shoreline's impact on the author's introspection and the search for harmony with nature's rhythmic tides, which serve as a metaphor for personal growth and understanding.

Abstract

The author describes the bay shoreline on the outer cape as a dynamic canvas that evokes a myriad of memories and thoughts, comparing it to a holographic roulette wheel. The moon's tidal influence is likened to a graceful, punctual pendulum that rearranges the shoreline, revealing hidden possibilities and remnants of human impact. The shifting sands and seaweed configurations mirror the author's internal emotional landscape, which influences the perception of these natural changes. This process of "sense making" involves an interplay between the subconscious mind's archival of experiences and the conscious mind's interpretation of these overlapping narratives. The author emphasizes the importance of learning from the past without fixating on it, using the metaphor of the tides to illustrate the continuous potential for new beginnings and perspectives. The piece concludes with a note of gratitude to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz for his support of Illumination authors.

Opinions

The author views the bay shoreline as a catalyst for introspection and a source of mixed, vivid memories.
The tidal movements are seen as a metaphor for the unfolding of life events and the rearrangement of personal circumstances.
There is an underlying belief that nature provides clues and guidance for human behavior and reflection.
The author suggests that the subconscious mind plays a crucial role in processing and editing life's narratives.
The concept of interdependency with nature is important for achieving personal synchrony and understanding.
The piece conveys a sense of gratitude and acknowledgment of the support from Dr. Mehmet Yildiz to the authors of Illumination.

Nature’s sense making

The inconsistency yet predictable bay shoreline on the outer cape was always an induction for me of an unfolding collage of memories and mixed thoughts of simultaneously vivid vignettes, a kind of holographic roulette wheel,

in synchrony with the moon’s on time tidal onsets that when it gracefully withdraws it leaves a rearrangement of assorted pieces of hidden possibilities, smooth stones, assorted sea weed configurations with an occasional reminder of what humans are capable of leaving behind. What swirling processing trance like pieces that would arise from the yin yang pendulum of this punctual movement depended on my immediate emotional context that would trigger some semblance of the other side of what was an interrupted sought after quest to blend with a some sort of interdependency that is always searching for a synchrony to avoid misinterpreting nature which can be seen as giving clues of our injurious misguided ways of trying to out- smart her gifts of guidance that are right there always in our subconscious that is continuously archiving everything we have ever seen or heard with our senses in and out of awareness, otherwise how can it edit and splice these always overlapping interfacing narratives, songs and feelings that are part of an opportunity to not dwell on past whatever’s but to have this inner peripheral lens to create the palate to reimage resolutions from the hints of learning from the past without condoning or minimizing, it’s a gift to a new beginning, a new possibility of sense making, to sooth and allow for differences making differences as part of that moment of turning inward and outward from the tide’s message to stimulate and say how are you today and tomorrow and so and so on…

Thank you to Dr Mehmet Yildiz for supporting Illumination authors.