Tuesday 13 September 2016

Imagine


Imagine all the people living life in  peace - John Lennon

Imagine an age 
of total #surveillance

(as we have now)

Where 
humans construct
every move 

Where humans play God
but we#RE WRONG

THAT is TO SAY

Wrong! 

Machines 
make the moves 
they play God

Machine 
picks a man 
walking along 

let's say in Yemen 

No more
need of plagues 
or heavenly signs

Target in sight 
Its end
is pro–grammed, 

Yes, 
there 
is OUR God 

Of the drone

The drone
now sent down 
from heaven above. 

Target's A MAN 
who must be 
the man

Viewed from above 
on the screen's 
grainy image

NOW . . . . . . .. . . ... .... .. .. . . ...... ... . . ....

Target's 
despatched 
and 

?
is heavenward 
bound. 

Schnell 
is
The END 

OUR
#God must be
Proud




9 comments:

  1. It’s nice to see that someone apparently still believes in a personal God if I read the poem correctly. God forbid, He’s not a big deal in American that much anymore and those who do believe in him are largely classified as Right Wing Fundamentailists or more recently, Deporables of Trump. I don’t fit in either category but have always believed there has to be more to life than the aggravation we live with here. Not expecting 77 virgins to greet me. Just a little peace and quiet and maybe the chance to ask why He chose to create all this and how did He do it—one Big Bang or the way it’s stated in Genesis, no longer thought by many to be a literal account. All this commotion stirred up by a poems on Someone many don’t this is real anymore—at least in the States. All the best and thanks.

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    1. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. Is Heaven in Genesis 1:1 a place where God lives, or does the author mean the Universe?
      If he means the Universe then we could date the beginning to 14 billion years ago. The Earth was not there in the beginning. The Earth appeared much later. About 10 billion years after the beginning. What if Heaven is meant as the place where God lives. Of the age of that Heaven we have no idea but it must also predate the Earth. I cannot even understand the first sentence in the BIble, let alone the rest of the book, or even my own poems :)

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    2. The sea sponge is the oldest animal on Earth. There are 5,000 species of sea sponge. It can claim to have been there in the beginning if anything can. Perhaps it knows more than I do. Maybe God created the sea sponge in his own image. Is it a valid thought.

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  2. I find this a bit depressing to say the least Gwil.

    With regard to your comment on my blog picture. The farm is Ravenseat Farm and it is about a mile beyond Keld in Swaledale. The walk took in part of the Pennine Way - but the view from the farm is up towards the Tan Hill pub. And definitely in Yorkshire.

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    1. Things I regret (no. 26) I've never had a pint in the Tan Hill pub ;)

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  3. Very thought provoking Gwil. Wonder what John Lennon would think about the world today? Politicians playing God and technology being their infantry.

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    1. Dave, it's a very good question. Yoko Ono might know the answer.

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  4. We are all in this together but we are not all responsible. This is what I find hard to get my head around.

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    1. Somehow I find it poetic, Rachel, that your apposite thought appears alongside my Samuel Beckett thumbnail.

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