Gary Fisher
Fifty Haiku on the Nature of Reality
© 2017-2020 Gary Fisher
Fifty Haiku on the Nature of Reality, 2016-2017, 4" x 3" x 2"
I wrote this set of poems specificaly for the display above. They are presented to the viewer in random order.
My reality
Is not your reality
Unsettling thought
Nature's condensate
A cloud is only a cloud
I am only a man
Evanescent cloud
A lone tree without its leaves
All life transitions
That white cloud overhead
It's just water vapor
But it is so much more
My life is fleeting
I am only here for a short time
Time is relative
Even now I see
The tree, the sky, the river
And also, myself
Can I grab a cloud
Gently holding it to me
And feel its essence?
Aliens visited earth
Pyramids, Easter Island
Man needs tech support
What is reality?
I know it when I see it
I really don't
What is reality?
Goose bumps when I am very cold
It's personal
Dystopian world
Bad choices never end well
La Brea Tar Pits
Thinking too deeply
I envision infinity
As more than concept
The universe is vast
Encompassing then and now
A smear of space time
The dragonfly's eye
The world seen in slow motion
From our perspective
I, the realist
Seeing is not believing
Question realism
I think I can fly
I spread my arms and flap them
While in an airplane
Define God for me
"Collective uncertainty"
Define evidence
What is reality?
What evidence is needed?
First, define the term
I tried not to think
I tried not to do anything
Alas, entropy
No patent for me
No perpetual motion
Forever is never
Death is one option
Just ask Irwin Schrodinger
Life is the other
I opened the door
The observer watching me
Life is so very sweet
I opened the door
Saw my doppelganger
He needed a shave
I opened the door
Schrodinger's cat within
I caused it to die
I am relative
The frame of reference, me
Family of man
A belief in woo
Supported by anecdote
Is unsupported
I am observer
Alone, observing myself
An icy hot drink
homeopathy
water has a memory
show me evidence
Time shrinks and dilates
It's my damn perspective
Also reality
Man's face in the rock
Nothing is as it would seem
Pareidolia
Try rewinding life
A movie with many outcomes
Each a new future
The best of times, past
The future holds disappointment
Think that, make it so
The open door closes
I am both alive and dead
The door is opening
I am of two minds
Unable to follow just one
So I follow none
What evidence is needed?
First, define the term
I tried not to think
I tried not to do anything
Alas, entropy
No patent for me
No perpetual motion
Forever is never
Death is one option
Just ask Irwin Schrodinger
Life is the other
I opened the door
The observer watching me
Life is so very sweet
I opened the door
Saw my doppelganger
He needed a shave
I opened the door
Schrodinger's cat within
I caused it to die
I am relative
The frame of reference, me
Family of man
A belief in woo
Supported by anecdote
Is unsupported
I am observer
Alone, observing myself
An icy hot drink
homeopathy
water has a memory
show me evidence
Time shrinks and dilates
It's my damn perspective
Also reality
Man's face in the rock
Nothing is as it would seem
Pareidolia
Try rewinding life
A movie with many outcomes
Each a new future
The best of times, past
The future holds disappointment
Think that, make it so
The open door closes
I am both alive and dead
The door is opening
I am of two minds
Unable to follow just one
So I follow none
Disjointed reality
The world, a funhouse mirror
It passes by, a blur
I look half asleep
I am not what seems to be
Even to myself
In what order came first?
The God or the universe?
The myth or the fact
Why is difficult
The answer is convoluted
First, state the question
Violet blue sky
We perceive it as light blue
It's violet
One reality:
Light from a star very long dead
But how can I know?
I need to know why
Not just a definition
Or I learn nothing
Time and time again
I remember my childhood
Always rewritten
A recurring thought:
Recollections of the past
Different each time
My recollections
Memory is time travel
With damaged machine
I am a mirror
Reflecting what I receive
A still mountain lake
My innate spirit
I search for it consciously
It's in my mind
Desire to know all
Failing is its own reward
Mind-sponge never full
Anti-science babble
I know what is really right
I have common sense
Belief is not science
Science is based on evidence
Like string theory?
I see far away
With only my own senses
I am television
Once In every life
A rare event will occur
And go unnoticed
The world, a funhouse mirror
It passes by, a blur
I look half asleep
I am not what seems to be
Even to myself
In what order came first?
The God or the universe?
The myth or the fact
Why is difficult
The answer is convoluted
First, state the question
Violet blue sky
We perceive it as light blue
It's violet
One reality:
Light from a star very long dead
But how can I know?
I need to know why
Not just a definition
Or I learn nothing
Time and time again
I remember my childhood
Always rewritten
A recurring thought:
Recollections of the past
Different each time
My recollections
Memory is time travel
With damaged machine
I am a mirror
Reflecting what I receive
A still mountain lake
My innate spirit
I search for it consciously
It's in my mind
Desire to know all
Failing is its own reward
Mind-sponge never full
Anti-science babble
I know what is really right
I have common sense
Belief is not science
Science is based on evidence
Like string theory?
I see far away
With only my own senses
I am television
Once In every life
A rare event will occur
And go unnoticed
poetry © 2016-2017 Gary Fisher
Fifty Haiku on Reality
Gary Fisher