Mirrors and Trellises, Poetry Audio Blog

Mirrors and Trellises

Hello, café poets. There is another instalment of my poetry audio blog up where I talk a little philosophy and voice the poems Trellised Together, Slow Movings Vehicles in the Eternity Lane Only, and Trellis the Cosmos, which is also published below for your reading convenience.

Trellis the Cosmos

clicks and pauses
code and inference
from earth to sky
pattern shepherds chaos
from nonsense to meaning

foundation and base
erect geometric mirrors
among the cirrus
so we can see ourselves
transcend and enlighten

acrimony is muted
fear is rejected
tossed down, buried deep
to serve as naught
but fallen compost
detritus and worn ideas

expansion, growing together
grants meaning to an otherwise
meaningless babble

bound to each other
through understanding
consensus and compromise
the hive finds the way

all sides and perspectives
maintained and evolving
sustained and supported

build the pillars
arches and steppes
trellis the garden

throughout the cosmos
there will be nothing until we get there

Trellis the Cosmos is published Domesticate the Heavens.Slow Moving Vehicles is posted in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels. Trellised Together is published in Strays. Please visit my blog to further explore the accompanying photos and essay, some bonus poetry, and keep up-to-date with all my writing. 

Longer works can be found on the my amazon page.

Author's Note

PS ... I can now also be found on bluesky.

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

Dear Pryde
Funny you should use the word “Cosmos”
When my husband asks what I am doing I say “Contemplating the Cosmos”! I think what are saying in this excellent poem is that some day there will be a wall/ trellis around the Cosmos, with meaningful conversation, understanding, compromise our thoughts and opinions, “ expansion and growing together” for without these , there will be nothing!
We must build together!
Great idea and writing!
Warmly
B🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much, Betty:)

[Betty Hermelee]

You are very welcome 🌷🌷
Warmly
B🌷

[Kenneth The Poet]

Good stuff. This reminds me of Jack Johnson's song "Constellations".

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Kenneth. I am not sure I have read Constellations:)

[R J Askew]

I enjoyed listening to you read your verse very much. You measured delivery held my attention, it being the opposite of 'meaningless babble'. I like the spareness of the words also. Oddly, I'd been thinking about trying to watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos today. And i'd been thinking about compost also, it being time to plant garlic for next year. I will listen to more.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, RJ:) I try to be minimalistic, yet expressive and artistic in my writing:) Hope the garlic grows well:)

[redd Brick Keshner]

A profound declaration in very modern, contemporary lingo! Loved the fusion of jargon and meaning🙏🏻🕊

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Redd:)

[redd Brick Keshner]

Most welcome 🕊️🙏🏻

[red93]

Fabulous Work Pryde, complex and resonant. Really Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Red:)

[Troy Henson]

Finding you on Instagram was a jolt in the right direction for me. Looking at your work now after so long away is inspiring, unique and exciting. Huge fan as always, Pryde.

[Pryde Foltz]

Oh thank you so much, Troy. You may also want to try out bluesky. I am finding it more immediate wrt to finding each others poetry. Instagram has poety but it mostly infomercial world. If you do come onto bluesky and choose some fancy name ... let me know it is you:)

[Thomas W Case]

Superb work. The youtube stuff is so fun.
https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasWCase

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Thomas:)

[John the Baptist]

This is the most unique presentation I have seen on the site. The poem seems to describe an idealistic philosophy wherein the negative aspects of the human mind give way to a higher consciousness. The spoken narrative relates a similar philosophy, but goes on a little too long. You might consider letting the poem stand more on its own.

[Soren]

A proclamation of liberty and freedom nicely said.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you:)

[Lorry]

We forget to truly appreciate how far we have come, now knowing that what we stand on is spinning a symphony with other planets, where once we didn't even have words to explain those glittery little twinkles in the night sky.
Just think though, that that was the only show in town! To look up in awe of the free light show on the roof of the sky. No binge watching Netflix, or any TV at all for that matter. Just us grunting until we and others figured out what it meant and here we are in 2025, where we don't have to go chase a buffalo, risking life and limb for dinner, as we click a pick on our phone and some cyclist brings it to you like he's training for the tour De France!
😃

[Pryde Foltz]

And we have telescopes to bring detail closer ... it is a better world but we are always invited to scorn it.

[Dylan Macadham]

Beautiful take on Our search for meaning! Personally I believe there is no intrinsic meaning, that we each have to find our own. Could be that yours is helping us :)

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you. I agree will be slightly different from each perspective:)