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!
Domesticator of the human race!
How splendid is thy kernelled face !
This poem is based on perspectivism and anekantavada. There are a more than on view point for a single seemingly objective reality.
ReplyDeleteThis 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