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Odd's Laws?
Odd’s Laws? Since all the Universal Laws that rule Existence are discoveries — they’ve been In operation since before the minds Of humans woke to their effects — not one Invented by an act of human thought — What […]
Astronauts
Astronauts (‘Challenger’: 28 January 1986) Riding flaming columns Into unknown space, Monitoring instruments Juddered by displaced Huge kinetic pressures Outwith your control; Juggling with computer-data — Utterly involved — Until some sudden defect Cancelled your bold try With incandescent epigraph […]
Cycles
Cycles “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…” […]
Life's Mirror
Life’s Mirror Our future is only our past Reflected, as though in a glass But made mysterious by Time’s Refractions through vague surface-dross That mars its lustre and distorts The details of its imaged shapes. When […]
Implosion
Implosion A nuclear reactor, when its heat Exceeds a prescribed limit, may implode With cataclysmic force, destroying all In its vicinity. To help prevent Disaster it is carefully controlled By stringent safeguards that can be deployed To dissipate excessive energy Whenever need […]
Quantum Theory
Quantum Theory (After reading Other Worlds by Paul Davies) My mind seems cosmologically large Because all things I see — or touch, or hear, Or merely sense — become absorbed by me. The world, its […]
Evolution
Evolution All things are atoms in a cosmic flux. Though almost insignificant alone, By their collective influence they form The sum of universal interchange In a closed physical environment. It is their interactions, each with each, That generate the […]
Astronauts
Astronauts Riding flaming columns Into unknown space; Monitoring instruments Juddered by displaced Huge atmospheric pressures Out of their control; Juggling with computer-jargon; Hoping unseen defects Won’t cancel their bold try And write a fractured epitaph Upon the smoking sky. […]
Under the Ice
Under the Ice Reputedly,Antarcticais rich in oils And minerals of every kind; sufficient spoils To whet our appetites in raw materials For industries. Constantly rise political Disputes over the ownership of such rare store Under its miles-deep, age-protected ceiling-floor. Yet, far more precious than these minerals are those […]
The Space Between
The Space Between We’d marvel should it prove some mind devised Planets, bright stars and complex galaxies: Placing them in relationships so fine That they, (from ancient times through to this day), Stayed recognisable upon the skies As astrological phenomena Balanced amidst unstable cosmic flux. Nor […]