Diana C.’s 30-Day Poetry Challenge | Day 29
Pitiful Poor Ostrich-People
Tanka of contra-reaction to “grounding desires in reality”
Ostrich head in sand Misshapen reality
Minds better in sky Freedom from society Breathe life from Tree of Knowledge
Someone from Millenial or Gen Z or Gen Alpha (I think that last one covers my almost 16 and 18-year-old kids respectively??) can use Canva to place that ostrich head under the sand on the body of the human. I have to use my words to describe what I was thinking [1] with the two images and space between the 2nd and third lines.
Anyway, when I read the prompt and given the mind-blowing cognitive dissonance I witnessed in people last week, my mind went not to people grounded in reality but rather to people who construct their own reality and refuse to see truths that upset their apple carts.
The 3rd line reflects these definitions of sky from the 1968 Edition of the Webster Universal Dictionary:
The vault of heaven; Heaven, the dwelling place of God.
The fourth line reflects the beauty of nonconformity. Ann Litts contributed wonderfully the other day on this topic in her inaugural contribution to ChannSpirations and Coincidences:
As usual — society is just so full of crap.
As I responded the other day to Diana’s wonderful bio in About Me Stories:
I wish people could see like you do that there is unity in non-conformity
The fifth line reflects my belief in the erroneousness of most interpretations of the biblical parable of Adam and Eve and The Tree of Knowledge.
It dawned on me one night how screwed up the story is of the Garden of Eden, or I should say, how the interpretations of the allegory are wrong and have led to so much that has been and continues to be wrong in this world. It occurred to me that so called “original sin” is quite the opposite. It is curiosity; it is thirst for knowledge not just of things, but of what is the best way to handle life, which some idiots turned into right vs wrong and good vs evil. Then it occurred to me that the tree of knowledge is Earth and the tree of life is Heaven. Then I googled and the Kabballah is the closest to my thought as it has the tree of life as “the tree of souls.” I was listening to Aloha Ke Akua and the line “in the image of God” caught my ear, and I started to wonder what the uncorrupted meaning would be. It could certainly refer to souls, and to a baby; after that life takes over — only a newborn is created in the image of god and new borns do not display any masculine vs feminine. New borns are divine innocence. This thought proceeded the prior. I think. I’m really not sure. Ah ontological time.
From my 2020 Self Portrait, but if you don’t have the time for a 23-minute read on everything from the tragic circumstances of my spiritual awakening to soulmates and soul contracts and reincarnation, give Ravyne Hawke’s 5-minute
more than the measly 6 fans it received.
[1] I had the most interesting experience with silent communication the other day. 1. When my not usual bartender was making my drink I was thinking as she was shaking the shit out of it, ok that’s shaken enough and then when I said “that’s enough shaking” she said “oh sorry I heard you say it three times I don’t know why I kept shaking.” 2. I was talking to a woman next to me wondering what she was drinking and she answered me though my lips didn’t move and I told her I didn’t ask and she swore she heard me ask. 3. I was thinking my usual bartender’s name and hadn’t said it but she turned to me and said “yes Greg.”
In Rama I create,