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Poetry – Synergy

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Opher

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

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Opher

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

Posted on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 by Opher

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

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Opher

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

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Opher

Poetry – Eternity.

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Opher

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

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Opher

I just love walking around in Bali. Everything is special.

Poetry – Wonder is the beginning of wisdom

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Opher

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom

Zillions of galaxies,

Cascading in whirls,

Complex human beings –

Men and women, boys and girls.

Peering up at the skies

With questioning eyes.

The biology of a cell

And nature of thought.

Like green chlorophyll

Mysteries cannot be taught.

They make us ponder and try

To understand why.

Infinite universes

Where time has no end.

The evolution of life

And the way characters blend.

Until time passes by

We’ll be wondering why.

The creation of life

So complex and strange.

The way atoms and molecules

Join and arrange.

We can ponder until Kingdom come

For wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Opher – 13.11.2019

Socrates said that wonder was the beginning of wisdom. I always used to tell my students to believe nothing. We did not discover new wisdom by accepting the old stories.

This is an infinite universe. To understand it and how it works is the imperative of life. Curiosity is what makes us human. To wonder how things work is the way we move to understanding.

Life is wonder.

Life is another great mystery. To understand how life was created would be incredible. Nobody knows. To create gods to explain the things we do not yet understand seems irrational to me.

We should wonder, explore, think, investigate and delight. That is life.

Angkor Wat – Temples and ROOTS!!

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Opher

The temple complex had lain abandoned in the forest for centuries. The trees had grown through them. The resultant complex of roots and temples was a living work of art.