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Not a Mystery

It's no mystery the tools the engineering just the understanding of forces the way Robert Frost walks a neighboring wall * raising fell'd stones to reverse gravity That's all we do all the time reverse gravity The poem's talk of commons too beside the futile labor It's just math in simple terms a simple truth that governs and love which lifts no stony hope for sinners . no neighbor to argue their side as night's legions never bare children and silence has no say Only math Just math where radii might transit a point Not love Just gravity and death YOUR death Just to die or die just My mother died A law governs but love with no measure no rule confounds to see beyond our waking the proverbial heart not physiologos . transectal . geocromes . that strike the minus ( a kind of understanding ) but love's transgenomes unbinding in space . time form in exhalations capitulation ' heart throws the strike-line beyond star's intransigence stands-in for an absent moon and sketches out the ashen eye's refrain where the rule of . no command . commands . no thing as line & light & labor fail __________________________________________ * Ref: "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44266

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Date: 6/8/2017 6:48:00 PM
Robert, I think I recall Mending Wall but only vaguely. I like how you did your free verse here. the formatting is very cool!
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Robert Warlov
Date: 6/9/2017 3:17:00 PM
Thanks Andrea. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" --- The proverb “Good fences make good neighbors” is old. Found in Poor Richard’s almanac Format felt right.
Date: 6/7/2017 2:35:00 PM
Ref: Robert Frost: "Mending Wall" --- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44266
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Date: 6/6/2017 12:42:00 PM
epic :D
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Robert Warlov
Date: 1/2/2018 9:33:00 AM
thanks for comment. sorry so long to reply.

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