Poetry in Symmetry

Poetry in Passing is a free sampler from Poetry in Symmetry, the complete collection of 296 poems and fables by Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II.

We are all of us on a wire. The wire is thin and it is narrow, but it is solid, woven from everything that holds a life together: our feelings, our faith, our friends, our family. And no one crosses on skill alone. What steadies the equilibrist is the pole he carries, and the pole is Love.

In four short movements, this book walks that wire from the inside out. The Interior names what happens within one person at three in the morning: hope, doubt, forgiveness, joy. The World gives those ideas bodies and street addresses: a luthier in Mittenwald who fixes a Stradivarius by moving it a fraction of an inch, a street vendor in Portoviejo who saves the life of the man who just humiliated him, a boy in Tromsø who walks up a mountain for six years. The Inheritance carries across the tales of older traditions, retold rather than quoted: a boatwright who saves thirty years of shavings for a lost son, a swordsmith who folds his grief like steel, a confidence man ruined by a fake clock that gave a town the one thing he could never sell. And The Threshold turns the same question toward a mind made of code, and stops where we are actually standing: hand raised, deciding whether to knock.

One question runs through all of it: what can be held, and what cannot. The hour, love, courage, a story. Everything worth having arrives free, to everyone at once, and cannot be hoarded.

Read it where it falls. If a poem here follows you out of the room, the rest of it is waiting.

Poesía al Pasar es una muestra gratuita de Poesía en Simetría, la colección completa de 296 poemas y fábulas de Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II.

Todos estamos en el alambre; lo que sostiene al equilibrista es la pértiga, y la pértiga es el Amor. En cuatro movimientos, el libro recorre ese alambre de dentro afuera: lo que ocurre en una persona a las tres de la madrugada, las historias de un lutier, una costurera y un vendedor ambulante, las fábulas heredadas de otras tradiciones, y una última pregunta dirigida a una mente hecha de código.

Una sola cuestión lo atraviesa todo: qué se puede retener y qué no. Ábrelo por donde caiga. Si un poema te sigue al salir de la habitación, el resto te espera.

A collection of poems, essays, and fables that make up The Equilibrist Series.

A painstakingly crafted work with clear, direct, and accessible verse that connects with readers of all ages. Through artistic and universal language, the author awakens profound emotions and invites reflection.

With poems that flow naturally and seem to spring from the page, Cromwell-Smith traverses the full circle of life: hope, inspiration, self-reliance, true love, happiness, optimism, faith, gratitude, doubt, duality, forgiveness, adversity, resilience, coherence, geniality, and joy.

Una recopilación de poemas, ensayos y fábulas que conforman la serie El Equilibrista.

Una obra cuidadosamente elaborada con versos claros, directos y accesibles, que conectan con lectores de todas las edades. A través de un lenguaje artístico y universal, el autor despierta emociones profundas e invita a la reflexión.

Con poemas que fluyen con naturalidad, Cromwell-Smith recorre el ciclo completo de la vida: esperanza, inspiración, autosuficiencia, amor verdadero, felicidad, optimismo, fe, gratitud, duda, dualidad, perdón, adversidad, resiliencia, coherencia, genialidad y alegría.

A precious craft of artful verses that are straightforward and easy to understand.

Through art that speaks to all, the author seeks to elicit emotion while provoking reflection. With verses that leap easily from the page, Cromwell-Smith traces a full circle of life through perseverance, grit, kindness, discipline, impetus, tenacity, and greatness.

Una preciosa obra de versos artísticos, directos y fáciles de comprender.

Mediante un arte que habla a todos, el autor procura despertar emociones y provocar la reflexión. Con versos que parecen saltar con soltura de las páginas y cautivar el corazón, Cromwell-Smith recorre el ciclo completo de la vida con temas como la perseverancia, la determinación, la bondad, la disciplina, el ímpetu, la tenacidad y la grandeza.

Three books. One question. Six hundred pages of answers.

For years Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II wrote what he believed were three separate books of poetry. Laid side by side, they turned out to be one: a single long argument about what a person can hold and what a person cannot, and the discovery that the things most worth having are exactly the ones that cannot be owned.

Poetry in Symmetry gathers all of it: 296 poems and fables, complete and unabridged. It begins inside a single life, moves outward into the world, journeys through enduring traditions, and arrives at a threshold no generation before ours has faced: asking the oldest questions of the newest kind of mind.

From the equilibrist on his wire to a mind made of code, this is a book about what we can hold, what we must let go of, and why the second list is always the better one.

Tres libros. Una pregunta. Seiscientas páginas de respuestas.

Durante años, Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II escribió lo que creía que eran tres libros de poesía separados. Colocados uno junto al otro, resultaron ser uno solo: una larga reflexión sobre lo que una persona puede conservar y lo que no puede, y el descubrimiento de que aquello que más merece la pena poseer es precisamente lo que nadie puede poseer.

Poesía en Simetría reúne todo: 296 poemas y fábulas, completos e íntegros. Comienza dentro de una vida única, avanza hacia el mundo, recorre la sabiduría de tradiciones perdurables y llega a un umbral que ninguna generación anterior había enfrentado: plantear las preguntas más antiguas de la humanidad a la mente más nueva.

Del equilibrista sobre el alambre a una mente hecha de código, este es un libro sobre lo que podemos sostener, lo que debemos soltar y por qué la segunda lista siempre es la mejor.