A lot (abridged)

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    A lot (abridged)

    Part I: Freak accident

    Out of none came all
    Quite convenient mindbender
    All we’ll see, feel and love
    All you’ll sentence to the blender

    From light dark
    From wet dry
    From living dead
    From land sky

    The universe is everything
    Or maybe there’s two, who knows
    The world is somewhat constant
    Our perceptions of it that comes and goes

    Part II: Genesis

    Closer, closer, closer still
    Something’s moving in this pit
    How did it come to be?
    There’ll be billions of it in a bit

    Feed, grow, duplicate, repeat
    A suddenly busy terran sea
    Increasing complexity
    Ferns reaching for the sky freely

    Subtle little changes
    Fins, eyes, bigger brain
    Mutation across generations
    Legs as to only get wet by rain

    Part III: Big Teeth

    So you wanna survive selection?
    Grow teeth, grow claws, grow stronger legs
    Eat whatever vermin
    Outrun tyrannosaurus rex

    Haven in the treetops
    Stalk your imbecile prey
    Keep your young warm
    Live another day

    Still around as they petrify
    Adapting to icy weather
    Monkeys tracking mammoths
    In fur, felt and leather

    Part IV: Mind over matter?

    Let’s stay here a little while
    A couple of generations or so
    We’ve got fire, we’ve got goats
    We’ve got hemp and food to grow

    Some sticks and you’ve got a house
    Some more a picket fence
    More offspring survive
    Future starting to make a little sense

    It’s us or them I guess
    Axes, swords and arrows
    No reason not to fight
    Brown and blue eyes narrow

    Part V: Bipods with iPods

    God died and we’re quite dandy
    Claimed Everest, Moon, even life
    Machines no bigger than a speck
    Botox for my future wife

    Good music and good wine
    Fine life, credit card might 
    Elsewhere they’re less fortunate
    Prey to consumptions flipside

    The view from my hotel room
    Skyscrapers and tiny tiny men
    The world at my remote clutching fingertips
    ‘Till the nightmare ridden sleep takes me again

    Part VI: We had a good run…

    Up it goes, down it falls
    Gravity, we off all should know
    Don’t think too much of it
    It’s as easy as going with the flow

    Vines covering the million dollar estates
    Elk grazing on Main Street
    Men wandering aimlessly
    Not knowing why they bleed

    Tales of electric lighting
    At the late night campfire
    Death visible once again
    Children born out of desire

    Part VII: Ending

    The universe itself
    Someday unable to sustain matter
    Our remains to be photons
    Reality to shatter

    But what’s this knowledge to me?
    A stroke could end everything
    Morality a choice, really
    Let’s just let freedom ring

    Stars, asteroids and galaxies
    And all we’ll never know
    Gone like Kafka to the shredder
    Eaten like march eats the snow 

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    winterkou commented on A lot (abridged)

    02-18-2011

    You really have some deep raw talent you draw up out of your soul, a passion that carries your words and the words seem to speak for themsleves. another great write.

    shallenemcgrath commented on A lot (abridged)

    01-04-2011

    Poems know not conventional time. I like it Stig. What a roaring effort at such a young age. Tell Deva (Diva?) that its the first in a series of great works which will not be complete until after he, and I -for that matter, are both dead. I get the contemplation of mortality and change. Cheers to you for coming to such deep realizations at such an early stage in the game. Just make sure that you don't get caught on the dark side of your days. Not everything is Kafka and Brahms. Seize every moment -you bright and shining sun!

    devaamido commented on A lot (abridged)

    12-23-2010

    This is a very ambitious poem, the reach of which is greater than the grasp. The sentences sometimes sacrifice specificity of meaning to make the stanza rhyme; usually by simply leaving a word out. The topic of the overall evolution of man is too vast to write IN THE DETAIL YOU'RE TRYING TO DO. Try to find metaphors, analogues, & other shorter ways to deliver what you wish to say about the evolution of the species. Nice try but NO CIGAR..... yet! It's just not done yet. Keep working!!

    AlysonAlive commented on A lot (abridged)

    11-15-2010

    Wow. I'm a dork. My first thought after reading this was, 'Yummy.' Very beautiful poem...and apparently it's yummy too. (x

    Olan01 commented on A lot (abridged)

    11-15-2010

    I think this is excellent, my young friend. It is a cyclical view or interpretation of existence and well written. Love, peace and freedom, Olan.

    Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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