You're the one running my PR. Something you're not telling me?
Posted on 12/27/2001 2:04:17 PM PST by Sabertooth
As a New Year approaches and an old one wanes, we think about the passage of time. Yet this year seems different, because a more profound change occured to our time back on September 11th. More than any recent New Year's Eve, that date looms ever larger as marking the birth of our current millenium.
But what, exactly, is different? We're at war, but we've been there before, and wars end.
It seems there must be something else, something underlying and overarching our world that went unnoticed in that earlier time. And something occurred to me...
Chronoglyphics
I.
Here… hush… In days like these, the soft din swells…
A silent voice resolves within the waves,
And epicentral, everywhere, it tells
Of currents and recurrence… wombs and graves.Between the echoes under whispers, much
Is hidden, little heard, and some is dream.
Swift ears may sift true silences and touch
The babbling drift of time's relentless stream.What mythic pool has this way overflown,
Precipitated from what endless deep?
What History engulfs all we have known,
And sweeps us to what certain, secret keep?When memory and prophecy cohere,
They flood the tides that lap across our sphere.
II.
Awareness to the surface realm is steep;
The broken waters mirror sacrifice.
Awakening from rems of liquid sleep,
Our daylight drops between the fire and ice.As waters eddy 'round a stone in draught,
And ebon flows of void will sluice some matter,
So time will wake about a turn of thought…
So myth moves from a moment's gravid patterDark origins and ends still ripple space.
What notes the light year where you'd find your star?
What marks true meaning of our time or place?
How do you know just where and when you are?By gravity and surge the clever steer…
The spiral to abyss is ever sheer.
III.
Like vagabond ellipses planets trace,
The dancing sprites of ions shell their ova.
White dwarfs and blood red giants haunt our race…
What atom's eve might light a supernova?Look through the shallow tension of modernity
And plumb the spinning depths down under time:
The quirks and quarks and shards of far eternity
All overwash the present pantomime.Our conscience is a dream without a slumber,
Where chronons seep and stream from hidden wells.
Whose watch elapses ours without a number,
Where scrolling singularity indwells?A clarity springs silently, and near.
True myth is drawn within us. Listen… Hear?
You're the one running my PR. Something you're not telling me?
'I see the sea'
However, prolonged use has been known to give one an irrational desire to become a roofer.
...
A clarity springs silently, and near.
True myth is drawn within us. Listen… Hear?
Unfortunately, not always.
All your brain cells are belong to us!
Thanks for the Silverberg link. I need to check him out.
I tried to address entropy, especially in "Where and When."
Yeah, I think we can.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Deeper and deeper with each read.
Tick and Tock
two chronons rock
and roll entropic.
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