Jon Awbrey

Sunset At Hawk’s Nest

Jon Awbrey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:00:20 +0000

Platinum pupil and golden orange iris,
   Pure rose and turquoise the lids of the eye,
Lashes of evergreen and the gliding hawk's wing,
   Dark umber brows of the rustling oak bough.

Plato's puppet dances without strings,
   Tracing the shade of the fair plane tree,
Yet under his gaze nothing is new
   But shadows cast from high platitudes.

The eye of Horus gleams in the hours of twilight,
   A thousand eyes dreaming now wake to the sight:
A crescent smile, mother-of-pearl and silvery bright,
   Beaming with warmth on the face of the night.

Jon Awbrey
Glen Arbor, Michigan
August 25, 1990

The Absolute Last Rose Of Summer

Jon Awbrey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:40:25 +0000

: The Absolute Last Rose Of Summer

Fourier Analysis

Jon Awbrey — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:02:38 +0000

No one who exists
Ever ceases to exist.
It’s just one’s vision —
Temporarily obscured.

The Present Is Big With The Future

Jon Awbrey — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:50:31 +0000

“Now that I have proved sufficiently that everything comes to pass according to determinate reasons, there cannot be any more difficulty over these principles of God’s foreknowledge. Although these determinations do not compel, they cannot but be certain, and they foreshadow what shall happen.

“It is true that God sees all at once the whole sequence of this universe, when he chooses it, and that thus he has no need of the connexion of effects and causes in order to foresee these effects. But since his wisdom causes him to choose a sequence in perfect connexion, he cannot but see one part of the sequence in the other.

“It is one of the rules of my system of general harmony, that the present is big with the future, and that he who sees all sees in that which is that which shall be.

“What is more, I have proved conclusively that God sees in each portion of the universe the whole universe, owing to the perfect connexion of things. He is infinitely more discerning than Pythagoras, who judged the height of Hercules by the size of his footprint. There must therefore be no doubt that effects follow their causes determinately, in spite of contingency and even of freedom, which nevertheless exist together with certainty or determination.”

Gottfried Wilhelm (Freiherr von) Leibniz, Theodicy : Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil, Edited with an Introduction by Austin Farrer, Translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt’s Edition of the Collected Philosophical Works, 1875–1890. Routledge 1951. Open Court 1985. Paragraph 360, page 341.

I Am A Rock

Jon Awbrey — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:18:21 +0000

I Am A Rock

Inquiry Into Inquiry

Jon Awbrey — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:20:19 +0000

The spirit of inquiry comes from the heart.
Where it lives there's no need to force it.
Where it's dead there's no way to argue it
into being —— it demands an external shock
or an internal quake, a sense of anharmony
to kick-start it back to the realm of life.
But don't underestimate the persistence of
a static status quo to insulate its static
atmospherics from all hope of resuscitance,
by all the available routines of authority,
parochial isolation, not to say xenophobia.

— Also Sprach 0*