The curve is filled with an intensity of emotions that stretches to eternity.
The curve trembles in fear.
The curve can taste the edges of the silence in its tentacles.
O Galileo! What path can we follow away from the gravity of Earth?
The curve is empty, spilling its contents into a weightless void.
The mirror gathers the songs of the lost and echoes them back in a pulsing of 808s.
The mirror reflects the images of the night sky, magnifying the sound.
Remember the pattern: E=mc2.
The voiceless parabola crosses between the lines.
The voiceless parabola becomes the lines.
Galileo burns all the mirrors.
If E=mc2 what does K=?
Our illusions will fail to be optical.
Our unborne illusions will overshadow our minds.
Our illusions will be part of the equation.
(Que Sera, Sera)
Our illusions will dance on our graves,
stretching forever along the curve of our blindness,
into the vast unknown.
I thought the NaPoWriMo prompt list of random directions for writing a poem would result in something silly. But that’s not where it wanted to go.
Art inspired by Richard Diebenkorn.
K. 
This was quite and assignment, huh? I especially liked this line: O Galileo! What path can we follow away from the gravity of Earth?
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Thanks. It was indeed.
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Not silly, profound. If I read it often enough I think I will understand something very important.
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Let me know what you discover!
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It made me think that the curve of optical illusion could be a rainbow, the happy, unicorny side of existence. There’s an underbelly.
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Beautiful art with it too!
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“Galileo”s head was on the block. The crime was looking up the truth.” 🎼 This poem feels full of mysterious truths.
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Thanks Amy . That song has some great lines.
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I like the last stanza. I hope if my illusions are dancing that they will remember where they came from and spare me a thank you. And dance on.
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Thanks Claudia. I’m still not sure what I think about this one.
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I am interested as to why.
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Is it optimistic or pessimistic? Is it even coherent? It started out with a tone of absurdity, but that disappeared into…what?
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Congratulations on managing the prompt. I’m not sure that I totally understand it, but it seems Oracle-like in its wisdom–not spelling it out for us.
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I think it could be a good spring board. Follow the instructions and then take some of the ideas somewhere else.
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This is so interesting and creative K. I loved it
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Thanks Jude. It was a challenging prompt.
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Oh my, I’ve read about the challenge, that’s a doozy, you did a stunning job!
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How to escape illusion, when it’s a product of our perspective?
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It’s hard to distinguish the difference.
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