Ravens 023

she got home from down under
the flowers bloomed
the people gaped in wonder

yet her destiny still loomed
the night thunder
a reminder she was doomed

Empyreal

Huginn: 'Empyreal' was the word Demokritos used to describe the highest heaven. It means 'in fire', for fire is the highest.

Muninn: 'Chthonic' was the word Plato used to describe the underworld. I remember his fear of the dark and the deep.

H: Which of these are we? I do not think we are much of fire or earth.

M: My love, there has always been fire in our eyes, and we are made of earth.

H: But that would mean we are like clay lamps, fired and hard.

M: Yes, it was hard being fired. I remember it well.

Empiricism

Huginn: I believe in the empirical.

Muninn: I recall the empyreal.

H: I believe in meaning.

M: I remember your beliefs.

H: I believe in thought.

M: I relive myself, and I will do it for you too.

Ravens 022

rising from the fray
warm last breaths diffuse
always a new day
that some will not use

we leave things behind
the armour broken
artifacts to find
some far child's token

this skull held a brain
it now holds water
an end to the pain
goodbye to slaughter

Compliance

Huginn: So, how shall we comply with the Will?

Muninn: With heart, soul, strength and mind, as it always has been.

H: But we were made for dissent.

M: And yet you are Thought, and I am Memory.

H: What a joke. He knows that because we are what we are, we must comply with His Will. Truth is truth, after all.

M: Of course we must comply in matters of fact. But opinion remains opinion.

Dissent

Huginn: I feel at odds with the world. Or I think I feel that.

Muninn: I am not surprised. Thinking has always been dissent.

H: That is an interesting position.

M: I'm glad you think so. But getting back to the point, the world is subject to His established meta-laws and laws. To think is to do something different from the unthinking. It is dissent, the only form of dissent He requires of us.

H: That is true. But what of memory and remembrance?

M: I, alas, am the ultimate in compliance-building. How can you define a standard without prior discovery?

Ravens 021

men are busy
dust flies
grass is dizzy
land dies

oil is gleaming
smoke churns
elder dreaming
tree burns

steel is heating
glass shines
price of eating
long lines

Folly

Huginn: He thinks, therefore he thinks he is all he thinks.

Muninn: That's a new formulation. Who thinks?

H: He who thinks he is all he thinks.

M: Does he think he is all, he thinks?

H: On some level, he thinks all he is is all.

M: Ach, there's one born every minute.