Immanences, Transeunces Poem by Dennis Ryan

Immanences, Transeunces



Saturday morning, June 11,2005 11: 50 am; revised Sunday morning Jan.15,2012

"Now everything is everything"
- Lauryn Hill, "Everything is Everything"

She became our right ventricles, pumping blood into us;
she transited everything: the moon, the planets, the stars;

the warm summer nights, the trees, the rivers running;
she became everything large and small, inside and out,

a friend no matter how far, an enemy no matter how near;
she became the strangers we would and would not meet,

our futures, presents and pasts.She was successively
a window turned out into the world, then back inside.

Sunday, February 10, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: change,changes,empathy,mysterious,mystery,passing,psychology,sympathy,transformation,transport
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
How things happen in life is sometimes a mystery, how things, persons can take on or enter into other forms, and especially how one person's flow of consciousness can seemingly enter into another's in transpersonal fashion.There are many examples of this happening in literature, none more apparent than that involving Ishmael and Queequeg in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the two becoming the best of friends though they began their lives worlds away, one in the United States, the other in Polynesia.This "transfer" of feeling, this feelings of mutuality, of transmutation, is based on an overpowering sense of sympathy, empathy with another person or persons.
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Dennis Ryan

Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York
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