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yet now its time for rhyme to help poor male
to understand why women lead the way !
Clockwise or Counterclockwise ?
Rubaiyat of Invention and Innovation
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At rubaiyat muse plays as thought explores
for your amusement Life’s ‘hows’, ‘whys’, ‘wherefores’,
thoughts thread together, beaded rosaryto bloom until stark tomb dark curtains draws ...
Once words have left returning page to find
imprinted home in spirit or in mind
retain gold dear, steer far from dross loss base –
touch base with open eyes which once peered blind.
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Life veils ‘beyond the pale’ through which few see –
too many haste to taste eternity,
ignore life is succession finite, -
sum of infinite opportunity.
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Can “Truth” exist ? we’re asked, who’d taste masked core,
touch tendrils, clutch at straws, rehearse a score
whose strophes three score ten, twice more again,
write introduction light untold before.
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Here Left and Right we join or juxtapose,
as letters twenty six may recompose
thought-waves without the need to favour court, -
nor ought fraught taut retort be brought verse, prose.
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As Caxton’s soldiers fan out page to page,
wage war with work, or work with living wage,
words’ worth seeks judgement balanced, sets the stage
without judgemental values used as cage.
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Here content, style, a while, united are,
to s[t]imulate reflection, nothing bar,
to pleasure, treasure, or discard at will
by Jack and Jill, Left, Right, at odds, on par.
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So in these stanzas that speed to succeed
each other helter-skelter, thinking feed,
Green represents most right-brain thinking while
Blue underlines Left’s understanding need.
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Right brain most female thought-modes represents,
while Left brain runs male mind-sets bent on sense,
conclusions drawn between the two explain
these verses’ rhyme and reason may condense
ways men think women feel their flower world,
ways women feel men think their power hurled,
the bridge of sighs between the two we try
to etch or sketch as headlong minds wind whirled
must surf our Universe, “the ‘why’ not knowing,
Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as wind along the waste,
it knows not whither, willy-nilly blowing.”
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Read here, we’re led to shed some light on what
could be by robot programmed, ‘tis the lot
of whosoever dares, ahead of time,
create ideas that stimulate a lot.
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Whatever our allotted span, our race
worldwide too favoured narrow man as ace, -
soon woman’s savour shall claim pride of place,
replace man’s place of pride and flavour base.
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So grasp the moving finger as it writes
wait not on Time, but tune to timing – flights
of fancy twin with opportunity
which may not seed again feed dream's delights.
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Here we explore core paradoxes which
divide left brain from right, and offer switch
inviting insight into ways all think
Jack Left, Jill Right, communication stitch.
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In passing thank Fitzgerald whose Omar
Is as important as the Calendar
the latter gave the world in years gone by, -
without the which we couldn’t travel far.
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“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit
shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.”
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‘The Moving Finger writes, moves on once writ’,
says Left, ensuring that conclusions fit,
Alas ! - train Right brain finds track rigid, tied
to thought-mode far too tight, Will wanting wit !
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At stake is not just opportunity
to mock Pandora’s lock neccessity,
Knowledge must link to Intuition’s guide, -
Time mocks rocks, dykes which walled off sea from sea.
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Invention, innovation, share few tracks,
the former leans on what the latter lacks, -
Left brain is organized, by logic backed
while Right brain loves to test conflicting tacks.
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One seeks salvation’s compliments right now,
one tweaks, creation complements, finds “how”,
but [k]needs the trip itself where’er it leads, -
each track is farrowed by a different plough.
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NIRVANA reads RAN VAIN when lacking span
to shrink the link dividing man from man,
RA IN VAN enlightenment sums sun,
where I RAN VAN entitlement works plan.
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Invent pursues where innovation points,
from its zen flesh and bones provides the joints
the world’s attention gains, an iceberg tip
to trace the crown our surface race anoints !
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Invention : information channelled, spelled,
Where end result is traced from chase compelled
by circumstance – necessity as dam –
objective gained, no energy withheld.
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Innovation : flashpoint few foresee,
lightning strike, transforms reality,
stems less from dam than from home grown desire,
sires fires to damn conventionality.
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Invent is news which hi[s]story appoints.
Innovation : views, not won on points,
The two approaches differ widely for
Invent is Left brain which itself anoints.
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Invent : Left’s spirit seldom satisfied
with status quo, would sew new ribbon tied
around edition fresh of old idea,
and profit, in all senses, from the ride.
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Right, - Innovation - often steps aside
from golden rule that common sense should bide, -
warm ride more interest holds than cold gold which,
though rich in cents, insensed, distorts, can’t guide.
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Left puzzles pieces, Right, holistic whole.
Left scratches parts, square peg grounds to round hole.
Right parts from scratch, prefers mind vaulting pole
to catalyse spring causal, humour drôle.
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Right rôle games plays, irks Left who’d goal to goal
spin faster, t[h]read to carpet red unroll,
Left works with teams, Right teems with works
which whetthe appetites of who’d, for perks, control.
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Right little patience shows with rigmarole,
defined in terms precise which some extoll,
Right bets on hedges, Left oft hedges betµ
to safeguard steps from any jealous soul.
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Red Tape is Left behind. Right circumvents
black holes, sees red when Left plays righteous, vents
spleen, envy, steam while Right anticipates
new ways to dollars save at cents’ expense.
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Left little patience shows for double Dutch,
plays safe, while Right relays, remains in hutch.
Left is frustrated when from tall black hat
Right rabbit pulls while both at straws still clutch.
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For leads Right looks, left looks to lead, grow grand,
Finds focus where Right‘s dreams schemes must expand -
outstanding Right where Left would just stand out -
Left needs command, Right seeds to understand.
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Right’s Ball “no question makes of Ayes and Noes
but here or there as strikes the fancy flows
and Left that toss'd it down into the field,
Left knows about it all - HE knows - HE knows !”
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Right’s bat at that suspicious often grows, -
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the rose !
Left’s certainties today may morrow wilt, when
“Youth's sweet-scented manuscript will close !”
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“With Earth's first clay” Left wished last Man to knead,
there would of the last harvest sow the seed -
Right “the first morning of Creation wrote
what the last dawn of reckoning shall” breed !
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And this Right knows : whether the one True Light
kindle to Love, or wrath consuming quite,
that in one flash [s]he sees mind’s mirror caught
wins more than might in Left’s right left outright.
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Right out of senseless Nothing can provoke
a conscious Something to offset all yoke,
though yolk and white combine where omelette
of chicken-egg debate is often spoke.
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Less Left would speak but takes in hand the spoke,
width calculates, sounds stress, - where sound may poke.
Left scores ‘illicit’ pleasure, under pain
of everlasting penalties, laws broke.
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Left won't be left behind, when mind must workwith application, checks, rechecks won’t shirk
should one experiment meet accident -
returns to find where errors, irking, lurk.
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Right won’t be tied behind by sect or kirk,
imagination surfs Time’s tide to jerk
life’s secrets from “the foam of perilous seas
of faery lands forlorn” - twist humour quirk.
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Defence and Prosecution illustrate
the different roles perceptions demonstrate
the ways invent and innovation play
their parts within both statement and the State.
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Prosecution steers procedure past,
point proves, from point to point advances fast,
weighs more than plays, stays wary where surprise
could compromise its ruts, designed to last.
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Left brain improves, adapts, contrives to cast
cards schooled to rule through precedent hard, fast,
right brain senses emotivity
which left brain tests with rigour unsurpassed,
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Defence cares less for strong notes than key song,
dares more, wears less, won’t always string along,
lifts patterns more than sifts, dreams different guise,
wise, judges not disguise as always wrong.
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Prosecution hones the Law’s harsh bite
pursues relentless all that ever might
present fair play as way lest laxity,
upsets convictions, or conviction’s might.
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Defence runs fate’s dark gauntlet, just finds way
to play for time and execution’s stay -
while Prosecution, left, preys on just fight
Defence p[r]ays, fights to fight another day.
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One, left brain thinking works through day and night,
the other, right brain, writes of wrongs to right,
would equity extend to free and see
might to its place, replaced with just insight.
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Left brain procedures precedents uphold,
this right brain finds restrictive, leaves it cold,
between the two grey matters black and white
draw frontiers firm in court naught caught short sold.
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When something goes awry, elastoplast
Left tries - to sa[l]ve old bearings overcast,
turns back to drawing board which soon supplies
Left’s logic with an answer to forecast.
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Right looks aghast at formal plans and strong
Of mice and men - when sounds the final gong
they’re often wanting found, ship foundering lies
floundering at the bottom of the klong.
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With instinct and experience Left packs
The deal he’d seal to minimise risk’s whacks, -
while Right deals out the pack which Fate defies, -
and wins or loses gambling chips in stacks.
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From never rest to Everest Left would climb
intent on proving life’s not p[h]antomime,
Right here’s more bent upon perspectives vast
which care a dime that climate rhymes with time.
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Invectives and opinions firm Left keeps
directive bland or pinions, Right squirms, weeps,
from both the world at any given time
must draw to balance checks from quantum leaps.
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Left files sharp claws which both before behind,
attack or self defence, protect the mind
from flux, from change, arranges, irons out
barbed wired impressions orderedly and lined.
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Left, from quotations printed fine, consigned,
advances point to point, points proves, aligned
as peas in pod, squad trained beyond all doubt,
avoiding void, vain compromise maligned.
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Right‘s rainbow led reflections are declined, -
ground ‘neath Left’s feet, unsound, seems undermined, -
lest consequence from cause risk spirals out,
Left snaps control, traps soul in double bind.
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Left limits ‘strange’ to context predefined,
lauds conduct clear, to weakness scarce inclined -
Reaction not Response its all about, -
matter mutters “mind, do not unwind” !
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Left seeks respect, tweaks Right who weak he’d find, -
inclined to speculations undefined.
Right looks 'beyond', towards monde SHE may scout
mind over matter mutters "don't be blind !"
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Right’s polyvalent talents are combined
with “will to know” not “know to will assigned”
Right far and wide, will doubt, conventions flout,
replacing rigid Past with Future kind.
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Right colour, contour, context, weighs, inclined
perplexed not vexed by text hex too confined, ...
not “in” or “out”, but context “round about”
not “black” or “white”, - too tight, - rights unresigned.
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Right ties rejects which, too long trained, strong twined,
leave insufficient rein when wined and dined,
reigns over networks new which serve, st[r]and out,
deserve attention due, yet undefined.
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Left brain firm trains, explains, holds doubt a vice,
‘method’ blessed in Prussian terms precise,
Right seeks advice, to ‘When ?’ adds ‘Why ?’
to trynew ways to ‘scape predestination’s vice.
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Left th[r]ough due process, orders gives, obeys,
Right resonates, tunes, amplifies, relays,
each finds reach others teach at best suspect, -
one phrase defines, one signals waves in phase.
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Left, little feeling, thinks on measures, weighs,
Right little thinking, feels for treasured ways,
Each finds fond pleasure through bond interface
The other questions [Left], or, [Right] dismays.
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Left comprehends, Right feels, ‘gainst wrong appeals.
Right makes amends where sometimes Left conceals
emotions with a surface self-restraint
Right often feels false travesty reveals.
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Left masks emotions - tasks take precedence,
Right damns dam notions, drawing from sixth sense
though complex facts intact, contract’s pursued,
Right tact prefers, contacting joys intense.
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Left’s sense of purpose drives momentum great.
Right’s sense convergent helps to integrate,
grateful, what Left too often grates, to bring
perspective spans holistic, to create.
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Left’s sense of planning point to point links straight.
Right’s contradictions often may frustrate,
from straitened circumstances two paths spring -
these, well combined, approach perfection’s state.
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Right brain responds, to empathize its rôle.
Left brain reacts, to emphasize control.
Each needs a dose of each to reach the stars -
who little care for spins from pole to pole.
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Left is the standard cork to bottle wine,
Right has unusual ‘nose’ for flavour fine :
together they complete life’s kitchen where
one cutler is, one chef, - and so we dine !
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One channels to produce pure data streams,
One flannels to seduce, lure, sate her dreams,
thus inspiration gleams through different ways
we chose the dice Fate throws, streamlines extremes.
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Invention is the blossom on the tree,
whose scent is innovation - what role we
elect to play is weighed by hand which writes
the score for music that posterity
will use or will abuse, for good or ill,
to chain or free, the Future’s dreams fulfill
to mar, or let men Mars and far stars reach,
empower'd by women who will not stand still.
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Invention is intention catalyzed,
by role reversal, vistas reapprized,
extension complicated later seen
as simple step towards a goal disguised.
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Is “simple step ahead on path disguised”
more than old calculations rerevised ?
Once inaccessible, with second-sight goal gleams
through touchstone turned once much despised.
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Extension is an option exercized
which counts or counters process organized, -
play with the flow, go tack against tides tight,
examples sample, straight lines exorcized.
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Some words were changed in the three stanzas which
proceeded this, the argument to stitch, -
however phrased ‘Invent’, ‘Create’, refuse
static overviews through toss and pitch.
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And yet when innovation spreads its shoots
to sound the ground thought far too dry for roots,
the route is either opened or prepared
as Present, Future, Past, act in cahoots.
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Yet Change’s stream self-stimulates its flow
from double sources, which together sow
awareness heightened of an interplay
auto-configurated, primed to go
by synchronicity yet not in tandem though
the two may be confused in afterglow
when hindsight’s blessing seeks to document
‘invent’ and ‘innovation’ cameo.
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Life can’t run on one track, - both sot and sage,
must gear up, intuitions hear, engage,
black, white, replace with bright kaleidoscope,
and [w]ink “I think I think !” upon Life’s page.
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What matters, and to whom ? What gravities
apply when anti-matter equals tease
conundrums which a life-long paradox
entertains until all memories
are atomised upon a karmic breeze,
“blown willy-nilly” till, like honeyed bees,
they bumble on towards a homely hive.
They stumble on till patterns by degrees
from angles wide frame, focus, offer keys
for who between the lines can read, and these
the waft and weft of substance may discern
to draw the line dividing wood from trees.
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Both rhyme and reason often are withheld
till time and season ring the changes belled,
and timing is essential where the mind
must funnel forces for tomorrow spelled.
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Who would evolve must choose from many doors, -
each offers either fame, or blame, doom draws.
Time twists or tows each current man would seize,
each offers health or wealth, advance or pause, -
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The doors are those of inner confidence,
opened not by sitting on a fence,
though ‘Chance’ a helping hand can often lend
connecting inklings into solid sense.
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But sense is insufficient - those who see
the light with passion work to find a key
to free not freeze mankind, - yet better world
needs no fixed frieze to please the gallery.
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What fame is, what is doom, though, who foresees
What choice reject, what opportunities
take for, or take as, granted, intervene
converting wonder into energies
which harness intuitions to complete
a chain of thought whose end few e'er do meet,
combining much intangible to seek
responses which Left’s world will help to beat.
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Who would advance must, knock on those doors,
imagine links between effect and cause,
must persevere despite cold failure's fears,
warm ice of ignorance until it thaws.
For “Cause”, “Effect” combine as on their way
the cusps converge in subtle interplay,
although the watershed important seems
today - tomorrow’s dreams may well betray.
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Left brain or Right ? The one extends the known,
re-engineers and hears hid pattern's tone,
the other changes gears and clears the way
intuitive the former’s instincts stone.
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Left brain or Right ? One concentrates, would own,
the other seems to contradictions prone,
yet both explore for flaw with minds honed keen -
synaptic leaps come cheap, fresh codes to clone.
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Right wastes the precious hour “in vain pursuit
of this and that endeavor and dispute; -
better be jocund with the fruitful grape
than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit.”
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Right too well knows with what “a brave carouse
some made a second Marriage in their house”;
“divorced old barren Reason from their bed,
and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.”
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Yet those who whine, those who wine-dine, one day
will meet like fate, in state with worms to stay,
or earnings urned, or sunk ‘full fathom five’
both trunk or drunk they wake too late to pray !
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The Left brain can “with logic absolute
the two-and-seventy jarring sects confute”
Right, sovereign alchemist, may in a trice
Life's leaden metal into gold transmute.
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“For Is and Is-not Left with rule and line
and UP-AND-DOWN by Logic does define,”
of all that one should care to fathom, Right
was never deep in abstracts to design.
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In all “the seeds of wisdom both would sow”,
each with his, her “hand conjurs it to grow”:
though this be bitter harvest most must reap -
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”
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Left sizes “Glories of This world” while Right
sighs for the Prophet's Paradise come right,
Left takes the cash, and lets the credit go !
Who’d heed the rumbling distant drum tonight ?
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And Left who “husbanded the golden grain,”
and Right who “flung it to the winds like rain”,
alike to no such aureate earth are turn'd
as, buried once, Men want dug up again.”
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She, chaste, who s[l]aving pension’s rationned crust,
He who chased to waste through greed and lust,
alike must not forget to taste the spice
of life before its root dissolves in dust.
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Retirement benefits are left unclaimed
when Death, untimely, Fate’s sharp shafts has aimed, -
how much of what remains by fiscal crush
is lost – what cost to generations maimed !
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Though Chance unhappy is too often blamed
each makes his bed, together those once famed
for vice or virtue now forgotten lie
beneath the grass where once they, heedless, gamed.
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“And we, that now make merry in the room
they left, and summer dresses in new bloom,
ourselves must we beneath the couch of earth
descend - ourselves to make a couch - for whom ?
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The worldly hope most set their hearts upont
urns ashes - or it prospers; and anon,
like snow upon the desert's dusty face,
lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
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We are no other than a moving row
of magic shadow-shapes that come and go
round with the sun-illumined lantern held
in midnight by the Master of the Show.
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But helpless pieces of the game He plays
upon this chequer-board of nights and days;
hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
and one by one back in the closet lays.”
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Left brain warp, weft, weaves patchwork into goal
Right links the jump, or jumps the link to bowl
Conformity as patterns into play
may come a dime a dozen, colour soul.
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For Right, night brings rich dreams which ring a bell.
For Left, a concept new to master well.
For Right or Left it matters not a jot
if happiness cannot be 'got' as well.
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Both high I.Q. and gift of second sight
fail in the scales however smart or bright,
if peace of mind, serenity, none find
to burnish daily bind with inner light.
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Yet inner light is what Life's all about -
who cares a curse for economic clout -
as wallets fail but heart which true to self
remains, for cash cares not, can conquer doubt.
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Left brain or Right ? The one reaps what is sown
remains tenacious, sometimes claims his own
what Right brain stimulates though times be lean,-
one schemes, replaces themes the other’s grown.
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Left brain or Right ? The one retains control,
the latter’s best exploring jeux de rôle,
one works his team’s ideas, the other teems
with flashes filling ignorance’s hole.
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Left brain or Right ? One works to build the whole
from parts prenumbered or explicit goal,
the other flouts conformity to find
a missing link - and, often, begging bowl.
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Fiction, fact, both in their way attract, -
Left codifies, can plan, expand, extract,
Right spans apparent contradictions, may
through alchemy free essence pure, intact.
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Left brain or Right ? Each plays a different pitch
One seeks in process practice best, straight stitch ,
the other joys in spontaneity
responds to setbacks with a humour rich.