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Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 55

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 55 What the human mind can conceive calculate See beyond sight recall aeons lost in time Yet we believe grandma tales spun inebriate How the human brain can even brains create Short-circuit evolution collapsing time What the human mind can conceive calculate Pack thunder and lightning in capsules of hate Harness hidden quark energies for a rhyme Yet we believe grandma tales spun inebriate Earth’s environs run in quantum leaps of late Take pulsar quasar pulse long dead in lost clime What the human mind can conceive calculate Sound the molten hard heart of globe inchoate Find untrodden paths along arcs of space-time Yet we believe grandma tales spun inebriate Let some men through cunning minds subjugate For country conscience caprice incite to crime What the human mind can conceive calculate Yet we believe grandma tales spun inebriate © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015

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