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diff --git a/txt/poems.txt b/txt/poems.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..c6879e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/poems.txt @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +Joy of the grind +--- +Life is but a long farewell +Clawing at eternity's shell +A hopeless fight face entropy's might +This fleeting hare brings grave dispair +But pointless is our daily dread +Of closing circuit in our bed +So keep the pennies on the shelf +Existance is the prize itself + +--- +Emperors summer +--- +Of what ego did Augustus suffer +To name the month of dermic blusher +Did Julius reap the wheat himself +To name month fore weodmonath +Did butterflies of light divine +Flutter through their regal shine +Or was it summer's extasy +That lent this insight pleasantly +Make down the ages people utter +Their names while bathing golden butter + +--- +The universe observing +--- +The redshift of dim distant light +A foetus of the first bomb site +The universe's shock debut +Cast baryons, then me and you +Our evoluted thought process +Shaped science and our mind's egress +Man looked upon the pale redshift +And thus the cosmic mirror gift +Of universe's constant oeuvre +Enabling it to self observe + + +--- +A pointless myth +--- +I don't have the propensity +To appreciate god's density +To me the ecsis of humanity +Has no need of an almighty +Beliefs don't fly, they're all at sea +Comfort for some, a spirits decree +Cannot escape the reality +That life that's born of chemistry +Can assemble someone just like me + + +--- +Slices of a giant +--- +Mangled by biting teeth of iron +A giant falls impotent, still +The forest witnessed its lost scion +Dragged through ferns its lignin shell +Hefted, chained to diesel barrow +Sectioned and reduced by mill +No longer heard the song of sparrow +Shaped and nailed to form man's will + +--- + + |
