Day 6’s challenge is to look at the same thing from differant points of view. Wallace Steven’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Blackbird is the granddaddy of all this kind of poem.
3-D
It takes both
To make it 3-D.
Hitler loved his dogs,
Was vegetarian
And a mass murderer, too.
It can derange some
Who cannot hold
The tension of being both
Beast and brutality
Along with the appreciation of Beauty.
Love helps, but
Is not always the solution
For creating that third pathway.
It did not deter
Hitler anyway.
Perhaps he remained
Profoundly split,
Right brain and left locked
Out from the other
Bridges burnt over his inner Elbe
No synaptic chatter
To awaken empathy
Counter the love of destruction
A cartoon human, a hologram
Of three dimensionality.
We hold our guilt and our goodness
Like that Minoan goddess offering
Two snakes to the sky.
One may hold venom, the other a cure.
Both came from an egg.
We all crack out of a single cell,
From one into two, both equal.
Then three. Until we become one
all over again.
Sojourning Smith 