Hi Graham,
Thanks for explaining your ideas and the theme of your Mercury poem. I knew about its day being 2/3 of its year. And I just did a bit of research and found this helpful Wikipedia article about the colonization of Mercury, which you might well have seen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mercury
As in your poem, the article mentions Mercury's valuable resources, such as (possibly) helium-3 —
"an important source of clean nuclear fusion energy on Earth and a driver for the future economy of the Solar System," as well as
"a crust rich in iron and magnesium silicates, with the highest concentrations of many valuable minerals of any surface in the Solar System, in highly concentrated ores."
After reading that poem again, I like it even more.
And your new, rather philosophical one ("Collect"), is excellent too. I like the chiasmus of "gathering-in" / "in-gathering." It's an interesting catalog of things people collect. The last two lines are inspired.
Question: Is the purpose of meditation to
marshall thoughts or to
clear one's mind of them?