Massive statues, ornate pillars, obelisks, hieroglyphs and stone beams. It was fantastic.
The Majesty of Karnak – Luxor – Egypt
Hong Kong – the Waterfront in the gathering evening Twilight.
The waterfront in Hong Kong is magical – particularly as the sun begins to set.
Poetry – Life
Life
Basking in the sun in the goldilocks zone
Dancing between the stars all on our own.
Uniquely living on a rock that has given us life –
A green haven on which life is rife.
But do we value what we have in this place of wonder?
Or do we continue to destroy, to rape and plunder?
We’re spinning around on a great green ball
That seems to have it all
While for many
It’s too dismal.
Basking in the sun in the goldilocks zone
Dancing between the stars all on our own.
Opher – 10.3.2020
This wondrous planet is quite unique. Out of the zillions of planets in the universe this one is special. It is in precisely the right place with the right conditions.
It has warmth, light and water.
They have combined in this unique manner to create life in abundance.
It might be the only planet in the entire universe to do so.
How special is that?
Poetry – Synergy
Synergy
The synergy of gasses;
The synergy of life –
Expressed in droplets
That glisten in the sun;
A beacon in the universe.
Fine droplets,
Creating rainbows
Of delight;
The essence of love.
Every wave that crashes on the shore,
Every stream that trickles,
Every raindrop that falls,
Is an expression of that mystical essence.
For within us all
Lies that iridescence
Of spiritual rainbows,
That flow and sparkle;
Born of a synergy
From which
We are its greatest expression.
Opher – 13.3.2020
Water. The basis of life.
We live on a water world. Two thirds of its surface is covered in seas. Without it we would not be here.
Where did it come from? A combination of two gasses. Probably from comets crashing into us – icy celestial bodies.
We take it for granted. We groan at the cloud and rain. Yet that is what brings life. Without it we cannot live.
The pollution from eight billion lives is altering the climate. Areas are suffering great droughts. People have to move.
They are discovering the problems of trying to live without water. So is the rest of nature.
We do not seem to behave very intelligently.
Poetry – Wonder of life
Wonder of life
Accumulation and compression
Giving light and heat.
Nuclear reaction
Dancing to the beat.
As a universe comes alive
We hear, see and touch:
Spawning life and consciousness
Without which, there isn’t much.
Straight out of the atom –
The substance of life
Pours forth into the cosmos
Until all life is rife.
Opher – 19.12.2019
I sometimes imagine a universe without life, with no eyes to see its stars, no consciousness to wonder at it.
All that majesty, all that might, all that wonder, with nobody to appreciate it.
What a waste that would be.
I cannot help thinking that it is us, all life on earth, that gives the whole universe meaning. Without us there is no-one to ponder, love and glory in its staggering scope and glory.
The universe is a wondrous place. At least we are here to appreciate that.
Poetry – All is not what it seems
All is not what it seems
All may not be as it seems
As substance melts
Before the microscope,
As reality
Becomes subjective,
As mind impacts on matter.
For all of us,
Everything,
Might exist
In two places
At the same time
And misbehave
When watched.
Perhaps imagination
Is taking
A central role
In modelling
The world?
Opher – 16.12.2019
I am always amazed by the latest discoveries of science. They are much stranger than fiction, more extraordinary than any religion.
It seems that particles arrive before they leave,
That things can exist in two places at the same time
And energy behaves differently when watched.
Forget Schrodinger’s cat! It’s dead alive!
Perhaps they will find that we shape the universe with our imaginations?
Poetry – Creating Wonders
Creating Wonders
Within a thin blue layer
Where all the colours
Of the spectrum play;
Where biochemistry conspires
With water
To create wonders
Beyond our understanding;
Where complexity
Is spawned
From simplicity;
Where we awake
For our brief moments
In the sun
And wonder
At the stars
And atoms.
Opher – 16.12.2019
I do think the incredibility of life is wondrous. Our consciousness provides us with the whole of a universe to wonder at.
For a brief time we are free to experience life, to see, feel, hear and taste the wonder around us – just for one brief time – then gone.
Without life, without senses, without conscious, it would be unobserved and pointless.
I believe it is we who give the universe its purpose.
Bali – The Royal Palace – Photos
Poetry – Eternity.
Eternity
I’m writing words for eternity.
Tomorrow I will type them into a computer.
I will collect them together with others
And print them in a book.
In the course of a number of tomorrows
I will be gone,
Yet strangely
The words will live on for a while.
How pointless is that??
Opher 4.1.2022
I often wonder what possible purpose does anything have?
Such human thinking.
The sun just is!
Wonder of Bali – spiders and art
I just love walking around in Bali. Everything is special.
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