Life spirals
in ever widening circles,
elliptical orbits…
passing only once en route
to some unknown end;
sometimes we almost touch the past
but can’t go back again.
Through each mistake, in every trial—
conviction holds the key;
a lesson learned at every turn
upon our path to ‘be’
© Ginny Brannan 2015
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| Image shared by Tess Kincaid/Magpie Tales |
The Golden Spiral is a non-linear shape occurring in nature, for example the arms of spiral galaxies, or in phyllotaxis of
leaves, or the spiral of a nautilus shell, sometimes these are also referred to as a Fibonacci
spiral. Perhaps this term
isn’t exactly impressive on its
own, until you realize that this ratio is the key to everything from encrypting
computer data, to the numbers of spirals on a sunflower head, to our own limbs
and why the Mona Lisa is so pleasing to the eye. The idea of this ever-widening
yet proportionate shape intrigues me, because life in general is not linear, but full of twists and turns. And so this piece was inspired, not just as reference to shape,
but as reference to the spiral of
‘life’ itself…
