speak your words

speak of the opinion of mortal souls
at the gates where the sun goes to rest
and of the nature of truth and illusions
please bless the thought that is sprouting

return from the door of night and day
held in the embrace of the goddess of ripe fruit
lit in the sun of reason and bathed in her truth
captured in a question of seeming

cosmos
build of one
of unchanging nature
as a continuous sphere of oneness
no ripples to disturb the undisturbed
existence lies in the absence of death and birth

question

and here you exist at my side
invited to consider the being
what is the emptiness
the existence without a void
this being
this seeming

if not in sight of reason nor in use of senses
where do you move to build an argument

be invited

Parmenides, you embraced the poetic nature of philosophy. Parmenides has been considered the first metaphysician. Parmenides studied the question of being and the relationship between truth and appearances.

what is a god
if not clouds bursting
endless energy expanding

if not this question
what is a god
in the proof altering and shaping

questions i place in clouds
to find a god in nature
god inside a placed doubt
galvanizing the earthly thought

Xenophanes was a poet, a philosopher and a traveler who questioned the anthropomorfic nature of deities. The skepticism of Xenophanes has resonated through centuries.

breathe me in
a breath marks the place of a soul
today your wind consumed my island

air around me condenses
in paths
it runs across the frozen sea

i inhale you in

air to wind to clouds
to water to stone
it will all spark into flames

waves extend their arms
they will reach the shore
in a spring of reason

it will all spark into flames

Anaximenes, your arkhé took the form of air. According to Anaximenes air formed other matters through the processes of condensation and rarefaction. Anaximenes, you placed reason over traditions.

at the harbor of your exploration
you whisper through dust
none should sleep through their nights
under twisting constellations
we become nocturnal animals in training

up and down are relative
as the gravity pulls on our thoughts
the revolution hides in revolutions

in the vigilance of you day
or in a lucid dream of your night
did your pen brush the sand to illustrate

For Anaximander the primal element arkhé was apeiron, meaning eternal, limitless. Anaximander deducted that Earth is a floating celestial body with a shape of a cylinder. Anaximander, we followed your map into abstraction.

the lake of my being in stillness
my thoughts are lifted and dragged to the sea
i am enveloped in grey clouds
in white clouds
until the pale blue is revealed

rising vapors form walls
the horizon runs to an end

in a temple of nature
in pairs
in solitude
in longing
in catharsis
in science

no longer tied in electrical impulses
the air is empty of unfinished conversations
only silence remains
and a thought that rows unhurried
on the sea of our presence

Thales of Miletus has been considered by many as the first philosopher of the western tradition. To Thales the primal element of all, arkhé, was water. I float on the land of your thoughts, Thales.