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about deep issues: Mother Mary, stars are falling,frightened, spent among the beads.Schizophrenics eating moonpies,string them on your rosary.Sixteen candles pierce the frosting,Every moment tis of thee.Thirteen Fridays make a season,Aces four, a symmetry.Al Khwarismi, HemachandraFibonacci’s PlagiariesAlgebraic Algorithmsinvented by Rome’s ...
Posted to Poems by catnapping on November 2, 2009
Re: Where Once Famed Babel's Gardens Grew
I ought to be ashamed for my forgetfulness...thanks for the refresher! Not long ago, I visited the British Museum. My favorite parts had to do with Mesopotamia, and in particular with the cache of musical instruments found at Ur (here, here, here, here and here; slideshow of the whole set of trip photos, here). You probably remember how the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: "Religion" - for Denny (and Jonathan Swift)
HUMANS AND RELIGIONBy D_deridex the Romulan(Reworked from a prose report to the Praetor) Humans have an annoying wayof putting idols upon pedestalsand then knocking them off.It's how they themselves describe it.All that really changesis the sophistication of the artworkand the caliber of the weaponrythat they direct against it.Left to themselves ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Photon - An Ode to Light
How about ''foresaw'' or, perhaps better yet, ''foreknew''? Dr. Wheeler's exact phrase was that the Universe ''someknow knew we were coming'', and after looking at the online tangle of cosmological arguments revolving around that idea just now, I figure that for the sake of the poem, it would be best to not go too far beyond that. So far as I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Migrant - Comments welcome
In reply to a concern pointed out elsewhere, what could the narrator have done about the situation? He had no ''pull'' with the policeman, let alone the ability to usurp his authority. Yes, it would be a nice ''morality play'' for the narrator to try anyway, but it wouldn't be true to life. There is such a thing as trying to grab a passing dog by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Photon - An Ode to Light
And passing through a cosmic lens,Its dual nature's rather queer;Its travels show the UniverseSomehow foresaw that we'd be here.(*) (*) A famous insight by astrophysicist John Archibald Wheeler wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: Three Silly Science Poems
Whatever anyone else says, I think you've found your calling. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009
Re: denny with a "d"
I LIKE that poem, denny. I really think you should focus on original poetry revolving around such themes. If (as Sir Arthur Eddington said) ''the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it's queerer than we can imagine,'' then surely there is a place for your slightly askew perspective in trying to imagine it poetically. And this is surely ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009
Re: More of Maxwell's Poems HERE
Maxwell sounds like a Jungian NT who supports my hypothesis as to where such a one should find his niche in poetry. What a riot some of those poems are (that is, once one grasps their vocabulary)! Maybe you should consider emulating THAT poetic example, Mr. Apparent ENTP? :) Better yet: has William Shatner written any poetry? I'm guessing that ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009
Thanks! Here's an analogy for you and for others...
...and it's one of my favorites (which I owe to another). When a government agent goes looking for counterfeit currency, is he accused of being anti-money? No, he very much wants to preserve the real thing. Would that clear-cut sort of thinking were more universal. Believe me, I know more than I want to know how that plays out in real life. I see ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009

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