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    Orchids & Neurons
    Orchids & Neurons
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    Orchids & Neurons

    By Ellyn Peirson

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    We live on a planet that is a thin place - a place where time and light continually intersect. And yet we are taught to experience life as thick. When we move intentionally through the thickness that surrounds us and perceive Light, we can begin to punch peep-holes into and through Time.


    I, as poet, live a solitary 4-P journey with the partners of Prose, Poetry, Photography and Prayer. In my journey of Time and Light, I've learned that I can free myself from the ballast of ordinary Time and soar in the Light. This is Time Travel for me. The most redemptive partner of my four is poetry. The process seizes me, and I become consumed by the emerging poem until it is complete. Poetry and prayer are closely related, at times with a loss of boundaries. I have written poetry since I was an eight year old girl on the Canadian prairies. I simply cannot imagine life without poetry.


    Orchids and Neurons is an exploration of poetry as molecular and metaphysical, as highly musically-patterned and ontological. The poet is a simply a medium used in a complex process.


    In this recent body of work, may you discern my process and see yours.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNext Chapter
    Release dateJan 22, 2022
    ISBN4867512729
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      Orchids & Neurons - Ellyn Peirson

      Poet's Statement

      I am a lover of oils and potions,

      physics and metaphysics.

      I seek patterns and meaning.

      I create my own music and magic

      from words and sounds and silence and shapes

      and look for kindred souls

      in the ruins of Pompeii.

      We live on a planet that is a thin place - a place where time and infinity/light continually intersect. And yet we are taught to experience life as thick. When we move intentionally through the thickness that surrounds us and perceive Light, we can begin to punch peep-holes into and through Time.

      This is my solitary 4-P journey… my journey with the partners of Prose, Poetry, Photography and Prayer. In my journey of Time and Light, I've learned that I can free myself from the ballast of ordinary Time and soar in the Light. This is Time Travel for me.

      The most redemptive partner of my four is poetry. The process seizes me, and I become consumed by the emerging poem until it is complete. Poetry and prayer are closely related, at times with a loss of boundaries. That is why, I suppose, the sharing of poetry is an intimidating process.

      For me, poetry is molecular and metaphysical. If it is not experienced in those two right hemisphere spaces, let it go. As T.S. Eliot said in Tradition and the Individual Talent in 1919,

      The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

      It is my wish for you, my reader, that my Orchids and Neurons poetry touch you on a time-released level.

      For the record, there are five poets who have deeply affected my feeling, thinking and writing – indeed, who I am – over many years of immersing myself in their work: William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot and Mary Oliver. Here is a stanza from the most brilliant wordsmith of all, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in God's Grandeur. Let it play in the background of your right hemisphere as you read any poetry:

      And for all this, nature is never spent;

      There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

      And though the last lights off the black West went

      Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

      Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

      World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

      Lake Huron, the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada

      milky way

      Cry not over spilt milk and broken palaces

      Weep not over bruised egos and cinch gardens

      Mourn not our split personalities and crumbling terraces

      Life is but a dream

      Enter and awake

      I. to each, wonderment

      1. a brief history of strings

      Mum. Lois. she started it all, home

      pre-schooling (pre-natal?): mathematics, patterns, ante-

      diluvianism (she loved that word), ESP, music, more dimensions and

      more inabilities to play her music – remember the night

      sky, she urges…

      wink, wink…

      theories chaos, quantum, fractals abound and we

      vibrate, wink in and out of existence, with an impeccable

      inherent code, attachment to

      eternity within our own

      DNA

      think about it… the

      parallel universes, the dense, winking

      energy of other universes, senses beyond

      five – light, wonder, true vision…

      don't look away like that, go away like

      that… with that

      look…

      symmetry, super-symmetry, elegance, eleven dimensions, the true

      brain, vibrating strings, membranes, and brains

      conceiving brains (universes), parallel

      universes… if i

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