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Ballad of Creation

24 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by myrthryn in Atheism, Poetry

≈ 26 Comments

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amazing grace, aurora, ballad, common meter, discovery, evolution, life, music, Poem, Poetry, Richard Dawkins, Space Travel, tree of life

(a solstice gift for my followers..

since it is a ballad, it can be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace
maybe we can get Professor Dawkins to sing it..)

Amazing world whereon we’re bound
and what a joy to be
and celebrate life’s beauty found
from sky to depths of sea.

And in the twilight of the night
the stars go round about
Auroras’ verdant velvet light
to nestled arms devout.

Do you recall our journey here,
our birth within the stars?
The stardust coalescing near
and lit by solar fires?

The troubled days when life was not,
within a global blaze,
were soothed by comet-waters caught
to wring a steamy haze.

The cooling down did bear a gift,
most marvelous to tell:
improbabilities to sift,
a replicating cell.

And from this one diversified
by generations’ hone:
the fittest of the fit survived
to craft us to this home.

We’re standing at this cusp of time,
a twig on branch of tree;
And though we think our thoughts sublime,
in time, we’ll surely see.

Now if by chance we’ve journeyed far
with thoughts too grand for home
We’ll wander space from star to star,
go past forever’s roam.

“The Meaning of It All” – a Book-Spine Poem

14 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by myrthryn in Photo, Poetry

≈ 10 Comments

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atheism, Ayn Rand, book spine poem, Douglas Adams, evolution, Frank Herbert, hitchhiker, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Matt Ridley, memes, Michael Crichton, Poem, Poetry, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Robert Shapiro, science, science fiction, Susan Blackmore, Umberto Eco, William Gibson, William Golding

The Meaning of It All

The meaning of it all, foundation – the agile gene,
The runaway brain, the meme machine.
What character is that?
The naked ape,
The seven daughters of Eve,
At the water’s edge,
The river out of Eden.
Comanche moon,
Ornamental metal casting,
Guns, germs, and steel.
The Lord of the flies.
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Atlas shrugged Foucault’s Pendulum,
The white plague,
The red queen,
Electronic devices
Unweaving
the rainbow.
Suspended
Animation.
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Next,
Hacking, the art of exploitation,
The elements of artificial intelligence.
The Fountainhead.
Programming the universe, the elegant universe,
The roots of coincidence,
the electric meme.
The ghost
in the machine.
Spook country.
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Atlas shrugged chemical evolution.
The gripping hand redesigning humans,
The human blueprint,
The Fountainhead
Beyond this horizon —
Immortality!
We, the living,
the invisible heart,
live without a net,
the restaurant
at the end
of the universe.
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