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Spirals created from
rectangles,
round and round,
down and down, or
perhaps it’s up and up.
How did it get there,
morphing from
sharp right angles
to softly defined:
circles within circles,
arches within arches,
ever smaller,
that spin-off to infinity?
I do not know,
though I feel the flow,
I feel it inside of me.
Eternity springing
from finite, parallel,
adjacent lines,
abruptly intersected
with perfectly arched
curves.
A simple rectangle,
transformed somehow
to circling corkscrews,
from rectangles,
ever-widening springs.
The rectangle,
then a triangle,
the Golden One,
spinning out
to no-time.
The Golden Rectangle
making us dizzy
when we try to comprehend.
Take a lens,
peer through it,
and follow all
right angles,
follow each spiral.
There we find life.
There we find infinity.
Except we cannot find it
within our mortal minds.
©Janet Mitchell, May 2012, All Rights Reserved
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Thanks for adding a bit to this post. Obviously, I’m not a physicist, nor am I an architect, but I’ve always been fascinated in my studies (I’m an RN) of mathematics by the meanings and the reasons that mathematics works. One day, while in school, I was driving home, and I was suddenly struck by this jolting thought that, “Wow! You could explain almost everything with mathematics!” It was a dizzying feeling. I watched a documentary by a Dr Kaku, who explained the “Golden Rectangle”, and it hooked me into trying to find out more. I wonder why this form is the most pleasing to the human eye? And why it does eventually spiral?
This is beautiful, I felt myself going along the journey with you! The mind indeed cannot comprehend the mysteries of life and it’s cycles. ♥
This is beautiful Janet, like you said, “it is making me dizzy when we try to comprehend it”
Gosh, this is awesome, Janet. I gotta come back and read this when I a little more sober, though, so I can get the full appreciation. Clever, deep, insightful and even mathematical! Your writing is so varied. I never know what I’m gonna get when I come over here, but it is always awesome. You got skills chica!
Thanks from the bottom of my heart, Terri! ♥♥♥
Thank you, Terri. I don’t understand it, fully, but I know it’s real…. I’ve been reading a bit of physics, lately, and I find it fascinating!!!
Wow!