Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Poem: "The Right Reasons"

This poem is from the September 3, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] chanter_greenie. It has been sponsored by [personal profile] elliemurasaki.  Read about the indriso form.


"The Right Reasons"
-- an indriso


They come into our land with tank and tread,
The bark of guns and stamp of heavy boots,
And where they pass their bloody banners spread.

They hunt for us and call us rotten fruits,
As if the world is better when we're dead,
That they should end us all from bud to roots.

For reasons such as this we go to war

And claim as good the life we're fighting for.

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  • 6 comments
technoshaman

technoshaman

September 7 2013, 00:48:09 UTC 7 years ago

Mmm. :like:

So many of this run's poems have been so *timely*....

Coinkydink? Like ROUS's. I don't believe they exist.
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

September 7 2013, 00:54:11 UTC 7 years ago

>> Mmm. :like: <<

Thank you!

>> So many of this run's poems have been so *timely*....

Coinkydink? Like ROUS's. I don't believe they exist. <<

Not coincidence, but synchronicity. I'm a bard. Part of my job is to pour the world into words made of language.
technoshaman

Re: Thank you!

technoshaman

September 7 2013, 00:57:01 UTC 7 years ago

Aaah, soooo. And today I have learnt *two* things from you. It's been a good day.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

September 7 2013, 01:04:23 UTC 7 years ago

By the way, the difference is:

* Coincidence is a meaningless parallel.

* Synchronicity is a meaningful parallel.

The universe is fractal, holographic. What happens on a large scale repeats itself on a small scale. The same branching pattern appears in the veins of a leaf and the delta of a river. Events echo and repeat. Part of science and mysticism is the identification of patterns from a background of data, and then, to distinguish the meaning and use it to select a promising course of action.
thnidu

Re: Thank you!

thnidu

September 8 2013, 19:43:12 UTC 7 years ago

* Synchronicity is a meaningful parallel.

Or at least one that seems meaningful.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

September 8 2013, 19:49:59 UTC 7 years ago

The distinction between coincidence and synchronicity requires contemplation and practice. One learns the ways in which the universe communicates and expresses itself, much as one learns to predict how water will flow through a landscape. A person's thoughts contain both chatter and import; so too do the messages in the world around us.

The more meaning can be identified and framed specifically, the more import. The more repetition among instances, and the closer the overlap, the more import. The more commonality with archetypes and other major themes, the more import. It is also possible for things to connect with an individual's own life and vocation, in regard to meanings which are personal rather than universal: what is meant for one person or group of people to act upon is not necessarily so for another.

So another distinction is: Coincidence is unexamined, merely noticed. Synchronicity is what remains after the incidents have been analyzed and the random or irrelevant matches discarded.