What?

Jan 5

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WHAT?

If God is a verb
And the world is an adjective
What is the subject?

And what of beauty
When the beholder
Has no I?

About Ben Naga

The Spirit that graces me with its passing has no name and stems not from thoughts and words, though it gathers them up as it flows, but from feeling.

Posted on January 5, 2012, in Poetry, Writing and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 22 Comments.

  1. Betty Hayes Albright | January 5, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    Wow!!! Interesting questions to ponder – rhetorical and literal and metaphorical and allegorical and spiritual and………

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  2. Ben Naga | January 5, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    Let’s shake up an a priori or two there! 😀

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  3. Thomas Davis | January 6, 2012 at 1:11 am

    The last stanza in a short, short poem is amazing. The first stanza is worth pondering.

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    • Ben Naga | July 21, 2012 at 12:20 pm

      This started out being two separate ideas, then I suddenly saw the image of a ring of mirrors reflecting and repeating one another away into an infinity of infinities and realised the two ideas were reflections and extensions of one another: one encompassing statement/imagination/reflection/inquisition.

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  4. pointsthruprose | January 6, 2012 at 6:34 am

    Quite the enigma. This poem will stay with me for a while….

    You know, I get the answers in the 1st stanza then the 2nd is where the enigma comes in.

    Brilliant!

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  5. Addie | January 6, 2012 at 8:32 am

    Questions like this are the reason for my title blog: betwixt and between.

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  6. adeeyoyo | January 6, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I like this, Ben. Although the first stanza is over my head I think, the second one is really great!

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  7. lscotthoughts | January 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Definitely questions to ponder and in so few words, this is amazing! Thanks also, Ben, for following me; I will do the same and look forward to reading more of your thoughts, as well!
    Lauren

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  8. Vampire Weather | January 6, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    As always, a clever thought from a brilliant mind. This one will stick in my mind for quite sometime, I’m sure 🙂

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    • Ben Naga | July 21, 2012 at 12:26 pm

      I am glad you found this memorable; it’s only a re-post from The Book Of Guff.

      Sorry about all these little tidbits. I am working on some more substantial pieces, honest. 😉

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  9. tinarathore | January 8, 2012 at 9:15 am

    I simply love the way you play with words!
    your explanation of the subject-object identity gives a punch to the pun in the word “I”…. only a beholder without an “i” can see the real beauty or can he? Interesting!

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