April 26, 2006—Phenomanon

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    April 26, 2006—Phenomanon

    I watched the upturned faces frozen
    by the flashes and splashes
    Of lightning that
    Displayed themselves so
    loud across the canvas of
    The sky.
    I thought it amusing
    That something so common
    as electricity still
    has the power to awe
    our finite minds and fill
    us simultaneously with
    terror and wonder,
    and I wondered if perhaps
    our prehistoric forebears
    were affected the same
    way. And if so,
    then I suppose
    we have really not
    advanced ourselves as far
    as we would like
    to think,
    because –
    after two hundred years of light
    bulbs and switches,
    compelled still, we are, to watch
    this force we’ve somehow harnessed,
    showing off what we,
    in human shape,
    will never be able to do.


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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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