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Pearls of the Mediterranean
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Pearls of the Mediterranean |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Tucked away detailing metal machines Invoking such spirits, flirts a jagged mystery Romans, Greeks, Parisians aloft Bursting indentations of influential lumps Greenhouses ticked away the hours Spinning ideas of universal planets Surgical powers, creating pneumatics Discovering insight remarkably surviving All in man’s ancient memories! Pouring drifting climates on chariots of wings Kernels of movement infinitely causing precision Collections within a hall of the muses Three-dimensional numbers of schemes of the universe Earth…the nucleus around which the moon moves Continuous spruce, sways in the wind For students of hues, relinquishing shaman Huge torrential diver, finding the core of gravity Blazed theoretical topography in this massive library Atlas’s of Heaven Dragging death relics of size and distance Rotating turntables delivered atmospheric motives Wavering swollen gates of sand and stone Where scholars lay in tombs of sculptured bones Universal Living Minds Measuring Time Gongs smoldering hydraulics with jagged fingered spins Self-timing lamps, manipulating looping distances Suggesting each oration of moon & sun Circumnavigated by premise, a rotating motion Places Seen by the Mind’s Eye are Infinite Flexions of measure, thinking a great highway ~ Slumbers deep in a knowledgeable biography Moving among a dribbling hose mile after mile~ Wind milling water in great towers known~ Ancient poles ellipse watercourse of life Watchers speaking morning’s willing light Arrogant hoops that spun by drops of dew Metal detailing thoughts of automaton strewn Gears long ago, their reaching hands Technicians of instance, children of inventions Internal calculus 2,000 years before Newton? Relations of borders, naming an increasing sequence ... as Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, dials, spheres, and angles, by which the size of the sun might be measured to the human eye, soldiers thought him to be carrying gold and killed him. Little did they know, he was? |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
LeeJ, Once again the bouquet of your words overwhelm the stage. You are a bright star. Good morning |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
I have to agree with Seymour- a bouguet of words overwhelming take center stage. I too am in awe of the knowledge that those before us had. It seems that we haven't caught up with a lot of it, yet. On the the other hand, incredible advances are being made. Yes, pearls of the Mediterranean. Thank you for sharing your talent and depth. Sadie |
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Grover Senior Member
since 2004-01-27
Posts 1967London, ON, Canada |
An incredibly well-written poem!  |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Quite a write....James |
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