ESCHER IN A TEA ROOM: An Epistemological Exploration

    If Escher conducted a tea ceremony
    what would we see?

    Would teacups turn upside-down
    as bamboo utensils
    were bent into incongruities?

    Would slippers slide smoothly over tatami mats
    while curved geometries turned oddly flat?

    Do all things spin towards some
    hallowed sort of satori?

    Or is that merely a myth
    tea lovers tend to believe?

    When teacups touch our lips
    isn't it clear that transcendence
    when all words vanish
    is the only bliss?


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from POEATIONS: Explorations in meta-poetry by T Newfields
Summary:  Some thoughts about cultural space, bliss, and reality.
Keywords: tea ceremony, M. C. Escher, constructed realities, epistemological conjectures

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2011 in Tokyo, Japan ☆ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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ESPAÑOL:  https://www.tnewfields.info/es/escher-es.htm
NIHONGO:  https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/esshaa.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/aisheer.htm