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The Last Illusion

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by myrthryn in Atheism, Philosophy, Poetry

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discovery, free will, illusion, knowledge, Poem, Poetry, Religion, science, superstition

The gods were angered once by man
who did not understand their plan;
and so, disasters struck by will
of random gods who’d had their fill.

The child half-grown feared vengeful strike
of god for straying from the right.
The good or evil battles known,
yet still he reapt what he had sown.

The youthful man began to doubt
creation tales, to figure out
the way things worked, and still he thought
that man was King, just as he ought.

The man now grown does comprehend
that nature’s arm can only bend
so far until the balance breaks
and man the gravest mistake makes.

Yet even when man thinks he’s free
to live his own reality,
he’ll learn the beneficial con:
No nail to hang free will upon.

And so we live, our choices made,
continue on or twilight fade?
For does it matter, if no plan?
Continue on, as best we can.

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Five part-blind wise men,

23 Sunday Dec 2012

Posted by myrthryn in Atheism, Poetry

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Albert Einstein, astronomy, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Isaac Newton, Neil Tyson, Poem, Poetry, quantum physics, Religion, science, scientific method, Shrödinger's cat, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything

an elephant and a cat
went to drink
at the Reality Pub.

The elephant made busy eating
fig Newtons and spraying
peanut shells everywhere
until the bar-tend
stopped Hawking his wares
and began Hitchen it
to the Cosmic Jukebox.

The cat half-gorged itself
on the Tyson buffalo wings,
feeling full, then famished
out of existence like the Cheshire,
and back again to another stool.

The nameless men drank
whatever was poured ein stein.
They drank themselves to a Unified stupor.
Silly fools still fell off their stools,
stubbing their T.O.E.s on everything
as they left.

The elephant got stuck in the door
of the Reality Pub,
and the cat…..the cat,
scarcely even noticed
the position or movement
of anything else.

They say it isn’t true,

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by myrthryn in Poetry

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bliss, joy, love, night, Poem, Poetry, science, sex, space, stars

My love, as my eyes can only falter
and trip
over your form nightly
with the sacred ointment of candles.

My hands can only fumble
as they caress
the sable gossamer luxuries
falling about me, undulating
in soft tender mysteries
that bear dreams of children.

My nakedness standing, vulnerable, enfolded,
suffering your frosted kisses
to newly minted goosebumps
at this boundary of forever.

I am blinded by your depths,
my love, my vision clouded
by your milken gaze,
my movements slowed
by your enticing dervish dance.

Always grasping, out of reach!,
my eyes humbled, yet fathom your glories,
my mind seared by your cold distance,
my spirit consumed by your thoughtless stare,
tears burning my face
with a joyful sadness.

My feet remain rooted, alone,
at daybreak,
the terror
of terra firma.

(posted for open link night at DversePoets)

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