A Miasma of Ignorance
Sometime in recent history an unknown ether descended on
earth,
Spreading from country to country enveloping all the
peoples.
All the works of Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Darwin and
Einstein faded,
Like a giant medieval book burning party all knowledge
disappeared.
Soon the very ignorant of the world were praised and
elevated to power.
People felt secure in the knowledge that they were all equally
stupid!
Science, mathematics, evolution and reason, a complete
lexicon vanished.
The evolution of Spiritual awakening reversed direction
and marched backwards!
The seas became confused and started spinning in circles
of rage.
Winds picked up the vibe and furiously strengthened into
massive vortexes.
The creatures of the planet retreated but soon found no
safe abode.
Blindly people started to hurl deadly fire and
projectiles at each other.
….and so
When Earth recovers and rejuvenates all the wonders of
living organisms.
Millions of new species will thrive and rejoice and
vaguely remember the species,
The species that did not return, and wonder why and what
legacy did they leave?
Oh yes Mankind, they were masters of a few things, lying,
pretending, pretending not to be pretending, and making noise!
……..Isn’t the silence wonderful?
Down the concrete corridors
thru the smoked clogged plumes
waves of gray cascade along
Entombed for the greater of a day
they serve an infinite incarceration
for acts against the background
for acts in conflict with the order.
A sentence that has no termination
a doom that prevails in perpetuity
a prisoner for one's very life
no end, no commute even by death.
The cruelty has even a bleaker side
not even conceivable by all of evil.
The incarcerates are not awake
to them prison looks like freedom.
So scrambled are their inner works
darkness looks like pulseless light.
Their sentencers are perceived as benefactors
If for an instant they awake
this is mistaken for slovenly sleep.
If perchance they catch a glimpse
it does not register, it makes no ripple.
In the presence of greater spirits
they wrongly see lesser beings.
In the presence of pure perfection
only chaos, only confusion appear.
They worship their glittering captors
and lovingly fondle their barbed whips.
Incessantly their tongues do oscillate
spewing and spitting strings of nonsense.
As the light grows very dim
again the concrete vibrates to life
and a wave of transparent grayness
slithers to it's nighttime cell.
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| Rough Day at Sea |
The Gravity of all Things!
We live our lives unaware of the invisible force.
Yet our very existence is at risk every moment.
Newton figured out the math but never the why?
We travel the solar system with ease and precision,
As gravity sling shots us from planet to planet,
Allowing us to stretch deeper and deeper into space!
Physicist discovered sub atomic particles in an atom,
Naming them quarks, bosons, pions and gravitons?
Much is known about these particles, all except
gravitons!
Gravity is our constant companion and our executioner,
Every molecule in our body is being tugged at all times,
By a force once forgotten for a second will be instant
death!
Mountaineers know this danger well and wisely fear it!
As do roofers, painters, window washers and the like,
Every successful move is the result of gravity’s grace!
Scientist struggle with black holes, anti-matter and dark
matter,
And theorize about alternate and parallel universes,
They readily admit that it’s all a mystery to them.
Dark matter makes up 84.5 % of all mass in the universe!
It appears mathematically but has never been detected or
observed.
It makes the math work thru gravity calculations but
offers no logic!
The holy grail of physics is discovering a universal
force theory
Tying together the strong and weak forces and of course
gravity,
And gravity is the most pervasive and least understood
phenomenon.
All of existence sprung from the big bang 13.8 billion
years ago,
Hurtling everything known into existence including
consciousness and life!
Nothing can exist without this mystery, dare we call it
God!
December 22, 2017
December 22, 2017
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| Fitzgerald Marine Reserve February 2018 |
Ephemeral Utopia’s
In the morning rain, a flash in the night sky caught my
eye.
An errant electron traced a zigzag path thru the air.
Silently it continued until it collided with a mountain.
I felt the minuscule vibration of the earthly impact.
I climbed the mountain for more than half a day.
Until I reached the place where that meeting of spirits took place.
Fortunately for me the impact creator was about my size.
I squeezed on in and saw that some tunneling had been done.
Black tunnels scare me but something drew me in.
It was a long one least a city block deep.
I crawled and I crawled and I crawled,
Until my knees were bleeding and my head hurt from scraping the walls.
Finally I came across that negative twit.
All nervously shimmering brilliant black.
Upon closer inspection it revealed no form.
Just a mass of hysteria, no beginning, no end, no bounds at all.
Quickly, succinctly I was totally engulfed.
A new world emerged, majestic, luminous, devoid of any previous thought.
It had a sky bluer and higher than any before,
Mountains more beautiful and larger than the universe.
I willingly became a resident of this new paradise.
I danced to its rhythm’s, I swam in its fluids.
I hiked its valleys, rivers, mountains, forest planets and moons.
An existence so elegant, a symphony so enchanting.
I was skimming across a steel blue glacier just about this time.
I saw the unmistakable trace of a wild electron.
It smashed into the ice, knocked me off my feet.
The melting ice propelled me into the newly formed abyss.
4/20/1981
Resistenialism (ri-zis-TEN-shul-iz-um) The seemingly
spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects.
How the Conspiracy of Inanimate objects can lead to
Mindfulness!
She swung her arm to add feeling and accent to her point.
Knocking over and breaking a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle
Bourbon!
While checking e-mail the Hawaiian clerk inattentively
flipped the wrong switch
Sending thousands of Hawaiians and the world into
unbridled panic!
The tight end sees the football hurtling accurately to
his waiting hands,
Sensing the massive defensive end closing rapidly in on
his position
Quickly he plots his dash and path to glory, six points
and the end zone,
Losing attention on the ball for the briefest of seconds
it slips thru his hands!
Distracted he carelessly places his smart phone in his
open shirt pocket
He spies an object on the ground and bends over to pick
it up,
Spilling his phone from the pocket on to the asphalt
street
Methodically and miraculously the phone disappears down an
open sewer!
Recently a vengeful crack in the sidewalk tripped me and
knocked me to the ground.
While slicing vegetables one day a sadistic knife decided
to nick my hand.
An angry can of paint forced my foot to kick and spill
its contents on the floor,
In frustration I hurl a pickle at the wall it bounces
back and smashes my face!
I was dumbfounded, why were inanimate object conspiring
to sabotage me?
Seems when we are inattentive earthly object take
advantage and attack!
As I contemplated this, I realized my hurried life was
making a mess of me,
And I needed to slow my body, my mind and soul to a more
attentive state!
Some ancient teachings came back to me, when you walk
just walk,
When you eat just eat, when you talk just talk, this is
single mindedness!
Mindfulness is deliberate attention to the wonder and
power of now!
My mind is quiet and peaceful; inanimate objects are not
misbehaving!
February 2018
Jack I loved reading the poetry and essay and beautiful photographs! I'll be tuning in often for the sheer pleasure of deep thoughts and inspiration.
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