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I'd like to understand, but some of your poetry is hard to decode.
And I have to ask about it.
Because why would you publically post if it was private, and why would you not want comprehension from others?
"Remembering as he signalled without gin?" doesn't sound right and is probably a lot sillier than the tone intended.
"Remembering as she's glowing"?
This one is a bit of a stretch..
"Remembering as she sang low with the ocean"?
I assure you that this is curiosity not ridicule.
Hi Bradley,
my sincere apologies. I had different writings open and accidentally looked at the wrong one in responding. My fault.
However, even if it wasn't the writing you asked about, the response provides some general context, so I would still like to share it any way. The answer to the writing you did ask about to follow, then without the need for further context.
This response split in two (due to the character limit)>
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The writing You didnt asked about, but I accidentally referenced.
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The response to the writing you asked about to follow
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Hi Bradley,
I don't feel ridiculed at all. In the contrary, thank you for your interest. Too, for the benefit of the doubt. I re-turn assure you, the writings are not intended to ridicule neither.
However, their design is such, that they can be read at many levels. Although all writings too c a n be read at a literal level.
One example for a literal meaning of the writing you are asking about is:
"Re m emb er (the meaning of) ember is glowing ashes."
There are others, but since re m ember in g is a frequent guest to the writings, this writing elaborates the literal meaning of ember.
Even at a purely literal level you will see (too, e.g: re- (as a prefix connoting - again, member, ring). Are these words - all within re m embe r in g purely accidental, or do they tell a story?
Somewhere along the way we traversed into the figurative, which itself is the bridge to the abstract.
If re- (instead remember - re-) fill. Meaning, it was filled already? Why is it empty now? If there is a need to re-fill - how?
The same questions in (Western) science, philosophy, religions..
The writings started much simpler in 2013. Its still the same writings but they started weaving into another. That is why they became longer and may feel intimidating (or completely senseless) at first.
They are not. Too, you said, some of the writings are difficult to decode..meaning others you seem to find more intuitive.
This also depends also on our individual context. In recent writings you will find a lot of hypo, anti, syn - thesis. This is the terminology used by a German philosopher called Hegel to describe the process of understanding a particular thought, at a level more abstract, gaining consciousness in general.
A l l writings d o have a l i t e r a l meaning.
The cumulative figurative levels depend on our personal context. Examples for contexts frequently referenced are: Dialectic (Hegel), Physics, Algebra, Physics, Sufism, Buddhism, Tao, Judaism, Christianity, Kink (yes, you read that right..)
I hope I didnt overwhelm you, but I hope I was able to relate why there is no one single meaning for each writing. It shows itself differently to us all.
How?
It depends on the meaning our sub-co-nscious to make sense fills in, and on what context is available in our subconscious to do so (which depends e,g on our upbringing).
That said, if a p art icular writing or thought interests you, I will always be happy to respond and elaborate furt he r
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Wow!
Thank you for your very informative and meaningful response.
I confess I did have to read through it a few times!
I am very annoyed at myself for not seeing 'ember and ashes'. That was the part of it I was missing!
I do appreciate the gaps between words and characters are a poetry all of their own and the mind, whoever's mind, can fill in those gaps with whatever their personal context is.
I also appreciate the shape is a kind of connected visual art.
Dearest Bradley,
thanks foremost for the privilege of the exchange. I value it deeply!
Don't worry, I have to be in a particular state of mind even myself, too, to in the written see - all. Is it really all? I do not claim that, nor need to, indeed. All - of what I already saw before (giving my own inner context). Too, rarely at the same time, rarely at immediately.
Case in point a more complete reading to the writing we were exchanging about:
"Remembering ember (means) ashes glowing w it hin"
There is still the 'wing', too 'it'. Multiple options to the subconscious: (1) discard both. (2)i It becomes the wing: Remember w/in ashes it glowing the wing, (3) it discarded as part of within; the glowing becomes the wing......
But yes, I do not post until there is logic to itself each letter and its position. So ultimately I have the advantage of kno wing that its there, and, of course, over time there begin to show themselves patterns. Whenever asked, I will be happy to share to the respective writing my original intention.
The visual presentation allows to zoom into words, too weaving words into another. The wave overall is an intention, its particular expression the result of form following function. Again, I do not post until and unless each word and thought is completed, each paren t hesis closed.
A follower on my first account told me, I do not understand the writings, but I love to look at them. They make feel all is well. It was such a beautiful feedback.
Similar to looking at the stars in the sky?
Some see group of 'stars' (e.g. zodiac signs), some know the name to each 'star', yet others differentiate between stars and whatever other celestial bodies the mind differentiates. Their marvel is the same.
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I am also massively appreciative of the fact that you are not possessive about the meaning. You are happy and open to let other people draw their own conclusions. And happy to discuss it which is refreshing.
I have read various sexual/kink connotations in your work and I am happy that it does actually exist in there and I am not just seeing it where it doesn't exist.
It's a massive part of the human condition so why should it be left out of poetry?
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So please allow me to massively appreciate in return the fact that , too, you are open to meaning meaning it can be more than one.
Your very open mind reminded me of that follower who had said, she just loved to look at the writings, without feeling the need to till through them.
This in turn reminded how marvel does not depend on intellectual under standing. And how intellectual under standing not always makes us happier. The word alone: under stand in g. Very static. What are we stand in g under?
And what for?
I am deeply grateful for anyone finding meaning in the writings whatever that meaning looks like for them. Maybe its just a single word of even just fraction of it, but just at the exact time it was needed? That often happens to me when being present to what others are and share. Too, You. So again, thank You.
Allow me one last story of Hafiz, a Sufi Master of the old? Just because our exchange reminded me of it, when I haven't thought of it for quite a while. Maybe its for you, or anyone who happens to stumble over it? I will likely post it, too.
Onward, promise, I will stay focused on your questions and the writings you ask about, if, after this lengthy response, still any.
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Becoming human
Once a man came to me and spoke for hours about his great visions of God he felt he was having he asked me for confirmation saying are these wondrous dreams true
I replied: How many goats do you have?
He looked surprised and said
I'm speaking of sublime visions and you ask about goats?
And I spoke again saying yes brother how many do you have
well Hafiz I have 62.
And how many wives
Again he looked surprised
Then said: four
How many rose bushes in your garden?
How many children?
Are your parents still alive?
Do you feed the birds in winter?
And to all he answered
Then I said
You asked me if I thought your Visions were true
I would say that they were if they make you become more human
More kind to every creature and plant that you know
Hafiz
Yesterday was quite full. I had wanted to go back to your message with more calm now..
It turns out..
Indeed, I did answer to the writing you were asking about. Again, thank you.
I totally love the attached (of the US found in g 'fat he r s')... o riginal intelligence expressed in human ingenuity..
It is this level of detail that fuels the writings..what context is our sub c o n sci o us in, and why?
E.g. my primary association with O is 'The Story of O'. A bdsm movie o rigin ally from 196+. A warning, it will be very triggering for anyone with an upbringing in terms of (Western) right o r wrong instead of (Eastern) this a n d that. As child I had glimpsed a scene, not even at all the movie..
To O Zer 0 its anchor..its source..
I leave the transfer to you..
If interested, one way to go through the writings is to go through them letter by letter, until they form a word. Mentally place a comma. However, keep in mind, the last letter of one word, maybe the first the next 😘
Another way is to quite literally look at the writing, without focusing to much into them..
If you are old enough, you may remember the magic/3 D images that were popular for some time. Images seemingly of nothing but senseless patterns, images of seemingly nothing to see - until we did. Not just images. Too in 3D!
Another analogy that drawing of a woman (allover the internet), often cited in the context of perception. Some see an old woman, for others she is young. Some can see both (but never at the same time). Always ever again, what context is our sub-conscience filling it, how does it sequence/prioritize/filter the stimulation, so to it s elf it make s ense?
Beware though, by now, there also are edit (version alter - ati-on) s to the picture so indeed it still only shows one of the two (but because of the edit alter-ati-on not anymore the other). Especially those that believe to know by re m ember in g the image, can still see both. Its like we edited, but the cache still seems to show the old, running on memory, not yet re-f-re-sh-ed..
I looked her up..there she is..I saw both..well..I believe I did.. 😂
Similar a very recent re-post here..
1, 0, i, love,..I wouldnt be surprised if there is the 'you', too, though personally I didn't see it..(yet)
Distilled to its essence (the mind would call it bottom line), a bout Zer 0 ne o rig in al st or y l o ve, th rough me the wr i t in g - all
Z er 0 ne m in pl us t w O
Bradley C. Williams