Tuesday, 22 November 2011

AMAZING MAIZE


Kernels of sweet gold,and blades so green!


King of the grasses you always been!


Oh! Amazing maize! How mighty you seem!


Plains and mountains, you've spread your seed


Taming the farmer, to help you breed

                                                              
Forming bread, milk and eggs; and miserable meat


You feed my flesh, with all I eat


From plastics and fuel; to candy and clothes


You build them all,  from  thin air!


Oh amazing maze !!


Domesticator of  the human race! 


How splendid  is thy kernelled face !

                                      

1 comment:

  1. This poem is based on perspectivism and anekantavada. There are a more than on view point for a single seemingly objective reality.

    This poem describes the world in the egocentric perspective of the Maize plant. In this view the maize plant thinks it has domesticated the human race to cultivate it. This view is inspired by Michael Pollan's Omnivore's dilemma. The idea expressed in the poem is based on the ancient Jain philospy " Anekantavada" and "perspectivisim" of Fredrich Nietzsche

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