{"id":7,"date":"2010-08-18T00:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/Moontanman\/?p=6"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:52:39","slug":"life-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/2010\/08\/18\/life-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered across the sky, points of light to the naked eye<br \/>\nFiery orbs of red to blue, storms of violence unimagined to the mind<br \/>\nMagnetic flames caress companions held in gravity\u2019s bond<br \/>\nCreating colors of heat-less flame in the sky<\/p>\n<p>Curtains of light shimmer and race<br \/>\nEvidence of magnetic defense from the companion\u2019s heart<br \/>\nAllowing a strange twist of entropy to multiply, exist and expand<br \/>\nDefiance! Of the law that binds time and space<\/p>\n<p>Order and arrangement, chemical reactions grow more complex<br \/>\nIn spite of the necessity to become simple and scattered<br \/>\nThings that move and should not exist,<br \/>\nMostly their form is no more than specks<\/p>\n<p>Completion spawns in entropy\u2019s mirror<br \/>\nCooperation magnifies the mirror\u2019s effect<br \/>\nForming masses of pulsating beings with no sense of time<br \/>\nNeoteny allows the young to steal from the old, that which is superior<\/p>\n<p>Complexity drives the defiance of law<br \/>\nSoon awareness of surrounding space<br \/>\nDrives the increasing awareness of self and others<br \/>\nThe more aware leads the less to their maw<\/p>\n<p>While others escape to new spaces the aggressive can\u2019t pursue<br \/>\nOther less mobile forms raise antennae to absorb<br \/>\nAll the energy of the glowing light from the sky<br \/>\nCompetition is fierce between the motile and those that look to the blue<\/p>\n<p>Competition and cooperation step up the pace<br \/>\nWhat will grow, multiply, dominate, or die<br \/>\nSoon the liquid that dissolves the chemicals from others<br \/>\nNo longer surrounds those that have moved to the surface<\/p>\n<p>The surface is dry most of the time<br \/>\nRequires sex cells to become motile<br \/>\nWhen the rain comes, unknown and unseen, sex covers the wet earth<br \/>\nSex cells swim up the trunks of trees allowing growth to dizzying heights<\/p>\n<p>The ones that move will not be left behind in this assault on the land<br \/>\nHatched in the water but able to walk and slither<br \/>\nAnimals join the plants in conquest of the land<br \/>\nEating not only the tall forms that feed on light but each other as well<\/p>\n<p>Eons pass neoteny makes the grade again and again<br \/>\nAnimals revert to their larval forms again to hasten change<br \/>\nSoon warm beings rule the cool dry land<br \/>\nFirst four legs then two strut out of the forest and across the land<\/p>\n<p>On of these tall neotenic beings walks into the morning sun<br \/>\nHis mate and child walk with him<br \/>\nLarge brains, opposable thumbs, reach for the ground<br \/>\nPulling up a flower yellow as the sun<br \/>\nThe man holds the yellow sex organ of the plant and sees beauty<\/p>\n<p>His mate smiles, they turn to continue on towards domination of the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered across the sky, points of light to the naked eye Fiery orbs of red to blue, storms of violence unimagined to the mind Magnetic flames caress companions held in gravity\u2019s bond Creating colors of heat-less flame in the sky &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/2010\/08\/18\/life-poem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/moontanman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}