The Writers' Circle

A wonderful piece of writing. If I were a publisher, i'll snap you up. This is a gorgeous poem. Love it.

Thought-provoking theme!  Great metaphors!  Interesting structure!  Expert use of words ... a MASTERPIECE!

Thank you, Evita 
Ah, the Bible - the Big Book of Poetry , of Literature. Those poets wrote what others couldn't see about their history, wisdom, philosophy . . . their sensibilities. And then critics and theologists picked it up from there and spawned religions based on the stories.
RESURRECTION is not spiritual or religious or scientific . It's about what has been happening to our world; and right now being more pronounced.  I just put pen and paper and the Pebble of Thought just blazed.
I wish scientists would write poetry. Then we could see what they see in a revelation -- like a eureka moment -- instead of just being informed by, say, Scientific American. Then we could see the reality, as in Einstein's Theory of Relativity,  as the poets strip the mystic layer by layer. Then we can feel ownership of the science. I think Whitman wrote poetry about science. Unfortunately, the pseudosciences had been used with liberty in poetry but not true science.  Architecture is art and science. I wish poets, with poetry as art, would write more about the art of (or in) science.
I haven't read much of the Bible except Genesis, The Psalms, Jesus . . .  I checked the Book of Revelations, aka The Apocalypse. Didn't know it was at the very end of the Bible. It's supposed to be replete with symbolic language in extravagance . . .

Thank you for the compliment and your magnanimity, GrampaPogi

Thank you, Possum
I'm pleased that you're pleased and I've pleased you . . .

Thank you for the compliment, elaineh

Thank you, lomliyavi

Such a great poem!  Reading your work, I thought I was in a different dimension.

A kaleidescope of thoughts and ideas, a poem that radiates off the page (and screen). Has a strange momentum that self-energises (if that is a phrase?) and reads sometimes like a sermon, other times a revalation.
Proof if any were needed that anti-matter does in fact matter!

Shall return to reading this one I think.

Great stuff!

This is excellent.  It's what's happening now on planet earth.

WOW!

^_^

Thank you for your comment and vote, churchmouse.
I've been waiting for your comment on this poem, knowing you're one with a scientific background being a heating engineer.
And you know I respect your writing.

You say, you still don't understand this poem completely. Perhaps you already did.
The poet and critic Karl Shapiro said that the rational person is least able to understand poetry.
Or that his understanding of it prevents him from seeing it as anything but meters, rhetorical devices, levels of meanings --
rather than a way of seeing things, and not saying things.
Perhaps you're thinking too rationally.

I tried to to reach out as much as I can to as many readers as possible . . .
with  the hope that the reader apprehends the overall impression of the spirit of the poem.
As with first impressions, readers respond with a purely qualitative evaluation of the poem. They sense the whole - as how the poem moves them. They sense the mood, the poetic expression, the impact . . .
One don't need to know meters, rhetorical devices, . . . to react to the poem.

I thought of deleting the Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc^2 which is really a re-statement of the first law of thermodynamics, which goes "Energy can be transformed, but can't be created or destroyed." (Implicitly, what we say as creation could be transformation.)
But deleting it wouldn't be true to my vision and authenticity of the poem.
It occurred to me that the readers need not know everything about the formula to grasp what the poetry is about; they just have to be aware of such formula without going into scientific explanations.

As I said in my previous comments, the poem is not scientific or religious or spiritual. But it attempts to use the spiritual, the theological and the scientific concepts symbolically or allegorically. I was writing about the global issues, of man's inhumanity to man, of the human condition especially in developing countries, and the power of thought.

Hi mnmnl. 
You are quite right in what you say with regard to understanding of poetry. I have to admit that I look at most poetry and it leaves me cold. Which is why I rarely comment on it.
I do tend to write rationally rather than emotionally - A house burns down so they re-build it in ice, rather than A house burns down, the owner becomes depressed and thinks.... -
I still don't get the inhumanity and developing countries aspect of the poem. Perhaps they will become apparant as I read it again.
To me it is about the creation of life and e=mc squared holds it together.
Anyway, I think that you have a winner on your hands.

How could I expect people to read my mind? 
You're right, churchmouse.
All the while I've been saying I was writing about our global issues, inhumanity . . . developing countries.
I was . . .
But you won't know it unless you read my mind.
My faux pas.

Sudan, Afghanistan, The Philippines as the sick man of Asia, Ground Zero, global warming, earthquakes, tsunamis, deluge, Too Big to Fail  . . . They were the INSPIRATION of the poem.

Perhaps a global transformation from ground zero would be the solution.
Perhaps it's happening right now as we speak, 
although we're not feeling it, 
although we're  aware something's happening.
Like we're not feeling the rotation of the earth at 30km/sec.

You're poem is so wonderful and unique, any comment I could say would sound incredibly stupid!

Audrey

Thank you, Audrey
Not at all
Your comment's just sublime
And I welcome all comments from the sublime to the ridiculous
It's in the writer's spectrum

Thank you, Possum
I'm grateful for the kudos and the recognition

Thank you for your comment, wolfy