This word describes an action that transforms and continues. Poietic work reconciles thought with matter and time and man with the world.
In all begetting and bringing forth upon the beautiful there is a kind of making/ creating of poiesis. In this genesis there is a movement beyond the temporal cycle of birth and decay.

Such a movement can occur in three kinds of poiesis:
(1) natural poiesis through sexual procreation
(2) poiesis in the city through the attainment of heroic fame and finally
(3) poiesis in the soul through the cultivation of virtue and knowledge.

Martin Heidegger refers to it as a ‘bringing-forth’, using this term in its widest sense. He explained poiesis as the blooming of the blossom, the coming-out of a butterfly from a cocoon, the plummeting of a waterfall when the snow begins to melt. The last two analogies underline Heidegger’s example of a threshold occasion: a moment of ecstasis when something moves away from its standing as one thing to become another.

Somehow when i play a game with my father the dictionary isn’t big enough. The words we invent seem to be perfectly fine, they’re just left out. My father always wins. Although 88, he’s especially inventive. On the board in the picture we used all the pieces except for the Y!

In our Garden near the Sea we investigate Communities of Plants.