SteemitPoetryContest #8 | Outside, Inside, and In Between

in #poetry7 years ago (edited)

Pinna's Illusion, from wikipedia

Outside, Inside, and In Between

What's real exists without your attention.
Out in a forest, the trees do not care
Who listens as they crack under tension
and lie down like logs with you unaware.

Dreams are inconstant ephemeral stuff.
From within they seem true, in light of day
When you think back it will always prove tough
To focus on things that won't melt away.

Illusions exist somewhere in between.
You can know the truth, but look and you'll find
That the same false image you think you've seen
still appears on the path from eye to mind.

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Inspired by the "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it" koan?

I wouldn't say "inspired by", but that's certainly something I'm referencing in the first part. The inspiration was more "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." which is apparently a Philip K. Dick quote.

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