Whole Vs Hole : Friday Writing Essentials

This is a marvelous Poem. Your lines and the way you gripped your thoughts are effective.It took time to me to under stand your poem but after reading your response to John Beck's article for Science and Literature. This poem gave me immense pleasure.The last two lines are so beautiful.

Oh my goodness, this is awesome. having been a science as well as an arts student I have often tried to fugure out a relationship between the two - you know the poet in me does that sometimes, but these lines of yours are marvellous and they very aptly explain the realtionship as well as significance of the two...one is incomplete without the other and yet they are so different, tregdging on different paths making this world a better place to be in.

Pranaam

Thank you for the beautiful reminder to honor both sides, the art and science. Life is not just black and white it is a myriad of color. I have to have my husband read your article.

Wow, this is beautiful and so intense, I really love it!!!
BTW, welcome to gather!!! :o)

Beautiful and rich. I like this very much. This is something I can chew on for a good long while. Thank you for posting it.

I truly enjoyed reading this. I hope you continue to write such beautiful works here on Gather.

Dr. Saxena, In this marvelous aphoristic poem--really a teaching story in the Sufi tradition of the Blind Men And The Elephant--you display a onderful sense of the problem of the unity of the subjective first person, intuitive artist´s aesthetic and emotional mapping of the world, with the third person scientific edifice built on hypothesis, experiment and direct observation. We must have mind inside a brain, vison coupled with the endurance of the knowledge base, in order to survive as a species.

I am so grateful to your beautiful and bright daughter, my friend Bhawana, for having directed me here to impart from your thoughtful reflections on this conjoining of these two ways of knowing (and seeing) the world.

Dr. Saxema, I respectfully submit to you two books about metaphorical frames that you might enjoy reading, which shows how we humans tend to ´see´or ´experience´the world depending on the metaphors (artistic and scientific are one class of this) we most often use: On Metaphor (1980) and Philosophy In The Flesh (2002) both written jointly by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, the founders of the field of cognitive linguistics. These books, along with Korzybski´s master work Science And Sanity (1933) wherein he proposed the principles of the General Semantic Theory, inform and guide my ´pre-Simulationist´approach toward the ¨approximation¨of the arts and the sciences.

I will connect to you forthwith, so I can read more of your work, if this is congenial with you, sir.

John F. Walter
Granada, Spain

Beautiful, Dr Saxena. I enjoyed every line of this moral-of-the-story poem. It is soul satisfying. Thank you for sharing it.

Dr Ashok,
Honored to meet you. You have a daughter (thank you Ms. B, for introducing me to the doctor) that any man would be proud to claim. I claim her, proudly, as a friend here in the Gather world.

I am pleased with the balance of this piece of your thoughts. You give natural affection and respect to both art and science here...which I find comforting and enriching. You also see both as humble--and dependent on the other, which...too often is lacking in either and both! But which shows real and allied balance.
(smile)

To seek that which is best between two highly differing mindsets is to look for the good in all paths. I am quite, and quietly impressed with the way in which your mind works.

Blessings on you, dear sir...but having Bhwanna as a daughter may, easily, be blessing enough for this world.

Wilka

I feel an immense pleasure while reading your work. A great story to tell the relation of Science and Literature. Impressive and powerful.You are a sensitive Poet.Thanks for everything.

This is a wonderful poem, Ashok dear! I like it. The last stanza captures the moment; focusing as it is on the "generative" power of art in human affairs. Thank you for sharing.

I welcome you to Gather with open arms.

Beautiful, Dr. Ashok. Glad to have you on Gather. Your daughter is a wonderful human being, whom everyone loves and we love you, too.

'Science shall get lost in a big black hole
Art would die to make man a whole'..
Excellent poem with a true and lovely message. Loved reading it.

Hello Ashok
Your draws attention to the two sides of man. Through your rich metaphor you take our hand and lead us to a point where we look look to the left and then to the right and see the two halves of our being.

You ask us so eloquently why don't we, like your lame man and your blind man, ask our two halves to work together.
Isn't that what our Creator wanted us to do.

First as an engineer and now as a poet, I know the value of welcoming and nourishing both sides of our nature.

Thank you for asking us to look again at our lives and to ask where are we in the living of life?

This is wonderful! I am so glad that Bhawana pointed me in this direction. Now I see where she gets her talent.

" Science shall get lost in a big black hole
Art would die to make man a whole"

Splendid! Thank you for these two lines! The whole poem is amazing, but these lines touch me especially...

Iam reposting it after more than two years to see how the changing times change the beauty and appreciarion o f this poem which was written on the persuasion by my daughter Bhawana who is a gifted artist.

Man has a dualistic nature of being responsible and careful, but yet that of being impulsive and dangerous. Using art & science to depict this aspect of man gives insight into life expectations. Art is the carefree romantic side of man, but science is a needed parameter to keep man learning and growing. One cannot move forward without the other.

thanks u have very aptly described the dualistic nature o fman