Aldous Huxley and Jacob Bronowski
fire is earthfire is air
fire is water
fire is fire
and that is
in 12 words
the essence
of fire
except to note
in passing
that fire was never alive
and well (or even dead)
down there in hell, and
not one speck of ash was ever found
in that non-existent place
fire is the purifier
the creator
the bringer of light
and life
fire is energy
unlike absolute zero
which is a dead
nothingness
and which is
whichever way you want look at it
only to be found in
a cold place beyond bitterest cold
colder than the brass monkey's proverbial balls
created in the roaring fire
of 1942
and then fallen without hope
the demi-god Prometheus knew it,
and today it's true
that we all do too,
hell is a cold dead and dismal place
where one single atom
(or one single sub-atomic particle)
if it could exist
wouldn't
and doesn't
no. 273 on kelvin street
in downtown
deathsville
is an address
you wouldn't want to know
it's kind of
below
here,
and
that kind of
below bit,
at least that little bit,
is a fragment of an un-
intended truth
a spark of light
escaped
in a manner of speaking
said the brass monkey
to himself
on examining his own reflection
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gw2010
image: Stanthorpe brass monkey (wiki-commons)
As usual Poet - you have a little absence from my computer screen and then you pop back with a profound truth.
ReplyDeletePop over and look at another of my friend Joan's poems, published on my blog today. What do you think of it?
Poet.. this is a glory of a string of words. I'm loving the rhythm if the science is a bit beyond me. Thankyou.
ReplyDeletehappy i found your blog... wish it'll run for long.
ReplyDeleteThanks Weaver and Abludu. Gerry, the brass monkey science is sound (as far as anyone knows!).
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