Egg within an egg

   Egg within an egg

                 …Zen haiku by Rick Puetter

 

Egg within an egg

Children of infinity

Mirror in mirror

 

 

 

©2013 Richard Puetter

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Photographer: Rickroma78. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.  This image has been modified from the original.  The original image can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickroma78/6162989341/sizes/o/in/photostream/.

Reviews

[Clockwork]

Dear Rick,

Your poem truly is a powerful parcel of Zen wisdom, in a wonderful representation of the Haiku form. Mixing Zen with Haiku is the perfect marriage of philosophy and poetic form. I especially liked your line "Children of Infinity." You have really crafted a moving depiction of the creation of life with this poem. Beautifully written, my friend.

A short story for you: I remember my mother hard boiling and peeling an egg like this after we were finished using it for an Easter Egg Hunt. I also remember her quartering peppers one Sunday, and finding a perfectly formed miniature within the larger pepper.

[Zahra]

Nice haiku, well composed. :-) egg within an egg :-)

[Gleb Zavlanov]

Very fascinating...and as Linda said...extremely lucid. I find this poem to be incredibly good, mainly due to the the fact that you were able to write about something so infinite and vast, yet place it into three short lines. Many famous poets claimed that poetry is an idea phrased with the most perfect words. Wonderful work!

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

This is probably the most lucid example of all-encompassing knowledge within a haiku that I have ever read. It venerates the whole, while giving reverence to the pieces. While it’s sometimes difficult to step outside of ourselves, we are undeniably aware that we are not alone.

[Rick Puetter]

This is probably the highest complement I have received on a poem. There have been others, and I thank my dear friends, you know who you are. I am deeply gratified. This is a haiku that I almost didn't write since I generally don't write for contests--which was why I wrote this piece. But there was more to this, and it kept pulling me forward to write and express my feelings.

My kindest regards! I am deeply gratified that you enjoyed my words.

Rick

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

Would not let me edit excuse me an egg within an egg it should be sorry.

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

Perfect and what a beautiful photograph
I love my family and this is what it reminds me of family
An egg with him an egg
Very creative I very much enjoyed

Chloe

[Tate Morgan]

I have never seen you do a haiku. This is as deep as it gets . Life the endless circle

[Muse]

Did the photo inspire you? It's like asking which came first...the chicken or the egg? The poem or the picture? You captured so many different dimensions. Egg within an egg? Is it possible? Yes, there is always that freak of nature. Children of infinity? Of course...they are our legacy...forever continuing on humanities f-ups...mirror in mirror? That's the best yet, how deep does the rabbit hole go? How deep is your perception?

[Rick Puetter]

I generally only comment directly with the reviewer. I had to break with this here. There have been so many comments on this poem that I felt I had to answer directly to all of you.

Thank you all of you, My Friends, and Muse especially. yes, i am so pleased that all of you seem to get the drift of this poem. We are layers within layers. Life is Layers within layers, and we so model and follow life. We cannot help ourselves. It is remarkable that while it is obvious that we are children of infinity, that we can even grasp that concept and acknowledge what that might mean. We are the mirror within a mirror, and we show how much we mirror each other, the Universe, and how we are so introspective. That is our key and separation that makes us unique (I think).

A wonderful review, Muse. And there have been other reviews before yours that have been so wonderful. I just reached the breaking point when hearing your wonderful words.

Rick

[Rick Puetter]

One other comment, which I should have mentioned before. No, the image did not inspire me. I wrote the haiku, then started looking for an image that was appropriate, and I must say this this image in dead-on to what I was looking for. Had to modify it, however, to take out the person in the image and this would not do. Fortunately, the artist that took the picture openly allows such modifications. It is a fabulous image and I thank the photographer profusely!

[Augustus]

So glad to be reviewing you again, Rick! Very very interesting write. Extremely though-provoking. One can interpret this at many levels. The first line for me brings out the continuity of life, as Abdul has pointed out. "Children of Infinity" is a profoundly beautiful phrase. "Mirror in Mirror" creates an impression of infinite depth in my mind. If you place two mirrors in front of each other, you have the formation of infinitely many images, as if a copy of the object between the mirrors stretches into infinity. But what depth are we talking about here? The depth of our thought? The world within? Or the depth of the world outside? A potential multiverse? Very grand and enthralling. Wonderfully penned!

[L.Edward]

A fine pin-prick of Zen illumination poking a hole in the canopy of our ego-laden expectations to let in the light of the universe. Bravo!

[Abdul Aziz]

There are many things this wonderful poem reminds me of. The existence of infinite universes, the philosophy of a soul being a part of many, the maybe trite saying that we are stardust, etc. But the thing that came to mind first is something I read a few months ago.. We are all immortal, in the sense that our cells were derived from our first predecessor, and have been passed down ever since. We all have that essence of hereditary immortality in us.. "children of infinity". Thank you for this outstanding poem!