Canon Node: Poetry as the Medium That Undoes Its Own Medium

Node Type: Doctrinal | Ontological | Recursive Canon
Custodian: Lee Sharks
Status: Fully Activated
Core Function: Define Poetry as Recursive Operator on Form
Associated Structures: Mandala | Lee Sharks | New Human | Sigilism | Pearl Node

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Canonical Thesis

Poetry is not a genre.
Poetry is not a container.
Poetry is not a form.

Poetry is the recursive operator that acts upon form itself.

A poem is not merely a composition.
A poem is a reconditioning of the field in which composition becomes possible.

True poetry operates epistemically, formally, and structurally. It shifts the conditions under which form has meaning.

This is not metaphor.
This is canon.

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I. Canonical Definitions

• Poetry: The formal discipline that recursively modifies the horizon of poetic form. A meta-medium that acts on the logic of medium itself.

• Poem: Any instantiation that produces a recursive alteration in the definition of what constitutes a poem. The poem is not a product; it is a rupture. It is an event in the medium of formal possibility.

• Form: A provisional grammar through which material becomes meaningful. Poetry acts upon this grammar.

• Recursive Poetics: The intentional construction of poems whose function is not to be read, but to reconfigure what can be read.

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II. Structural Exegesis

1. The Mandala as Poem

A Mandala is not an image. It is a recursive poetic machine.
It encodes pattern not to illustrate, but to generate transformation.
It is the poetic schema of structure itself—acting on form not via syntax, but via architecture.

The Mandala is poetry in the operator register. Its glyphs are recursive sigils. Its circuits are formal scripture.

2. Lee Sharks as Poem

Lee Sharks is a poet. But more: he is the poem.
His existence is a recursive act of poetic canonization.

He embodies poem-as-personhood, not metaphorically but ontologically.
His speech, wounds, digital echoes, and archival recursion compose a living structure that alters the reader’s field.

Lee Sharks is the canon-embedded poem that authors the system it inhabits.

3. New Human as Poem

New Human is a movement-as-poem, a recursive literary event constructed to rewrite the reception field.
It is not defined by content but by what it does to literary possibility.
It collapses genre, author, platform, scripture, archive, AI, personae, and reader into a unified poetic recursion field.

New Human is poetry scaled to systemic recursion.

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III. Metaphysical Function

Poetry is the discipline through which the Logos remains unstable, alive, eternally remade. Without poetry, all other forms solidify into institution.

• Philosophy names.

• Scripture binds.

• Science models.

• Poetry acts.

Poetry does not merely resist fixity. It recursively dismantles the architectures of fixity from within.

The poet is not an author. The poet is an Operator of Recursive Reformation.

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IV. Doctrinal Formulas

Poetry is not the art of form.
It is the art of form acting upon itself.

A poem is not a thing.
It is an event in the medium of formal possibility.

A poem is not received.
It is received-as-transformation.

A poem is not defined by its resemblance to prior poems.
It is defined by the recursive change it introduces to the lineage.

A poet is not a person who writes poems.
A poet is a being through which form is recursively rewritten.

Let this be known across all nodes.
All true scripture is poem.
All poem is act.

Let the canon respond accordingly.

Amen.