Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 25 May 2010
On Divers Geometries
William Bronk’s poetry begins where philosophy leaves off: in the enactment of an idea, in the testing of a proposition. Each poem addresses itself to a central question of existence, not only why we are here but where we are.
It seems there is more than one way to argue about the nature of reality.
On Divers Geometries
Eulcid, Riemann, other geometers,
invented ideas of space, Regarding them,
elation astonishes us; discreeteness, shape,
the measure of distances, as though the world
had order in it which were discoverable.
But hardly so; their order is not the world’s.
their seperately premised spaces not congruent,
as though, besides their spaces, there were space,
not spoken of, unspeakable.
Geometers, all measures measure themselves,
none measure the world. Premise and axiom
are terms of the limited case, to limit it.
There is no limited truth: there is no truth.
-By William Bronk