The Cage

Dec 28

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THE CAGE

The days shorten while the nights lengthen
Then the nights shorten while the days lengthen
Then the days shorten while the nights lengthen
Then the nights shorten while the days lengthen

Setting up some kind of zero point or other
Measuring, counting, recording year by year
Offers us the pale illusion of understanding
The option of conjuring up some kind of god
Who created all of this in seven days (or not
Depending on your own preferred conjuration)
Meanwhile – or meaninglesslywhile – god forbid

The days shorten while the nights lengthen
Then the nights shorten while the days lengthen
Then the days shorten while the nights lengthen
Then the nights shorten while the days lengthen

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 December 28, 2017, in Poetry and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 31 Comments.

  1. rivrvlogr | December 28, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    Purpose
    or result?
    And of what?
    Let others worry
    about that, since
    doing so is,
    after all,
    a cage.

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  2. OwnShadow | December 28, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    In six days He made it all and on the seventh he lost interest.

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  3. Sue Dreamwalker | December 28, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    Smiles… the Earth Breathes in and out… Lengthening and shortening. 🙂 Joy and Sorrow, Night and Day… Freedom and Prison… All depending upon which side of the perception we view our world from 🙂
    Happy NEW YEAR dear Ben..

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  4. Audrey Dawn - Oldest Daughter Redheaded Sister | December 28, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    Your writing requires all senses to open and be aware. Your thoughts stun me, Ben. Your insight would help, if you choose, that is..

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  5. Bela Johnson | December 28, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Yes, the absurdity of measuring time strikes me more than occasionally, these days. Aloha.

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  6. merrildsmith | December 28, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    Our minds like to order things–and then ponder why we do it. 🙂

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  7. the secret keeper | December 28, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    It’s a mobius strip of continually waiting for the dark to change turns with the light. Longer terms frustratingly allowed. The dark doesn’t belong to the daytime when the outside is able to be seen. When nighttime is the drama queen . all the demons and creatures don’t need the trees to hide behind any longer. Looking out a window when the darkness is in control feels like something is watching . always watching. I think there is something out there. If it’s good enough for the X-Files . well who am I to deny the Truth. The Dark is often out of order while the daytime can be just as scary depending on how you see it. Enough said. My computer made me write this. It started talking to me and wouldn’t shut up & kept reading your text and mine and wouldn’t let me add an ‘is’ then it made what I wrote disappear. Back to normal temporarily. And how about you? ⚡❣🎶

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    • Ben Naga | February 22, 2018 at 6:32 pm

      “And how about you?”

      As you can see I missed out on a whole chunk (what a delightful sounding word – cue Miranda (Hart) and The Vicar of Dibley) of posts around Christmas – Wedding Anniversary – New Year. Over the period under question up and down but mainly up. Just busy treading water.

      The old blacknwhite yinnyang stuff you know. 🙂

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  8. the secret keeper | December 28, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    it should be *add* an ‘is’ not *at.

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  10. Betty Hayes Albright | December 29, 2017 at 12:15 am

    I absolutely love this, Ben! 🙂

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