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Eppur Si Muove

(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "eppur si muove" ("but it moves").


It's hard to live in Lilliput, I find. 
I have to cross my fingers, play their game. 
Their billing, filling, drilling daily grind 

sits ill with me. They all trot out the same 
tired cliches. Passing a painting, never fail 
to comment on the squareness of the frame. 

Unprofitable, weary, flat and stale. 
You can't earn prizes here. These fools prize earning. 
No sweets to eat. It's one long dreary tale 

of condemnation, disapproval, spurning. 
The Sunday supplements determine taste, 
all tearing down, forbidding, banning, burning. 

They're sealed in heavy metal, concrete-cased 
austerity. They put the "die" in "diet". 
What will survive of them is nuclear waste. 

Denounce, detract, dismiss it and deny it. 
Don't look for clover - look for cloven hooves. 
Excoriate it, flay it, vilify it. 

They'd love to let life lurch along in grooves, 
the gauche, perverse, unruly human mind 
trapped tidily in aspic. But it moves.

Our Universe

~*~

She floated down 
    on a shimmering 
  moonbeam
       and my eyes
    saw starlight
         glowing in her 
   cosmic smile
        as perfect love
       orbited my
                heart
          and the
               universe
                     became ours

Premium Member Enchanting Shadows

So distant was love from her heart to mine,
 We orbited different worlds
 Yet we spun with a passion on destiny's path
 Rotating with desire as we eclipsed; 
 The enchanting shadow of love, for a moment in time,
 Fell on distant hearts, passing through the night

 6-15-2020
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Glitch

Its Hidden Messages in my Texts
worth Examining 
you can see the Chosen from The Strangling
beatens an chains
all linked to a prophecy ordained
I've looked through documents for the Author of this Manuscript 
Which is me the Key the King to a degree only the oppressors see who exists 
science defying the recessive diamond genes to manifest a seed to triumph
We Athletes the Giants 
with Might an Speed
Born Supreme a Diamond
still we shine through out all the famine 
genocidal manaics
with prideful hatred attached
Forces of evil who masquerades as the Men In Black
with the Neuralizer with a Brain zapped
With a body frame detached to tell fables of raps
i disconnected from the Cable an a fatal impact 
rewired my cells so it's able to react to the tornadoes they craft
another dispatch 
a brother in the pavement with no pulse to graft
wonder now how savage insane we act 
we goin mad is there a way to get back
being the Power Circle 
but they mixed pink lemonade in at
generator operator destroyer
i made a general observation to be a detourer
be a general overstating his Order 
so they can see his illuminated Aura
 we can be Kings we dont got to be gangsters
Gangster is King with the Glory given from the Creator
thats why im letting this Red Pill Orbit 
you can see through all our misfortunes through our history Courses of History Horror
we are Glorious 
Victorious
I Am Morpheus
who went through a Metamorphosis 
who Orbited a Solar Eclipse 
an Burned the Moon so the Sun can be Lit
the One in the Matrix close to the Oracle
Zion
im a Lion
who knows the Architect who designed the prints
this supreme mathematics abstracted of the Creators Calculus of my birthday to be in this present state
so you see these prime birthdate numbers is ordinal
Im the Ultimate Warrior 
Against Jake the Snake 
I Put Snakeskin on my Mocassins
an make chains out of they Vertebrates
an made a Vest out the Lizard Scales
My face shine with the Melanin so now you know why my Pigment isn't Pale
Soul Summoned out the Book of the Dead to Lead Nations out this Wizardry Spell
Into the Body of Israel

Premium Member To the Moon

In April of '57 the US got quite the shock
   The Soviets launched Sputnik
   The space satellite rock  
We fell behind in the race from that very day,
That is, until we elected a President named
            J  F  K...

Only three months into his term 
1961, April, back then
   Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth 
   Those Russians were at it again
JFK circled the wagons with the White House clan
Told 'em ~ America's got to win this race in the end...

Alan Shephard went up in the month of May
But as fast as he shot up, just that fast he came down
Compared to Gagarin, he was a monkey, a clown  
   Strapped tight to a board--rigid, upright
   He did nothing but endure the vertical flight
     ~Unlike Gagarin, who manually controlled
        his takeoff and landing, the ultimate goal  

Then Grissom went up in the month of July 
He seemed to fly nicely and pretty high
   But at the end of the day 
   His near-disastrous landing
   Clearly was NOT 'A-OK." 

And by February '62
When Glenn orbited the Earth
   Those Soviets led us by quite a wide berth.

Kennedy grimaced, fuming inside
He reckoned it was time for us to take pride
in our space program, to date a big bust
   ~ In the race 'gainst the Soviets, a win was a must

So he gathered his courage and adjusted his vision
Set out for Rice University, appeared on television
   Challenging us, coaxing us, squeezing us, urging us
   with this daring question--
   so the Soviets wouldn't be 'purging' us:
        
          Some people ask, 'Why?'
               To them I reply
            with all that I've got
               ~ Why not?

Then he set this agenda for NASA, 
America's fledgling space agency:
Put a man on the moon before 1970!
    ~ JFK's proudest legacy
  

Postscript:       On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 
                      took man's first step on the lunar surface 
                  ~"One small for man; one giant leap for mankind."

Premium Member For Him

I wore cashmere
and splashed Chantilly on my skin.
I wore cashmere
for him who orbited my sphere.
Sweet smelling, soft and feminine,
I lived to put him in a spin. . . 
I wore cashmere.

Written By Andrea Dietrich
for the Contest of nette onclaud:
"Weave a Rondelet"


Earth Does Not Revolve

One day, watching a reddened evening sky 
over the western horizon, it’s peculiar though, 
a thought that is so preposterous suddenly came to my mind
and that was the earth is not revolving. Is it because the world was 
too quiet?  Or the world was too chaotic. 

Once this absurd thought ran through my mind, 
neither of those great names, Copernicus nor Galileo 
bore weight on me and their heliocentric theory faded away 
as well.

The papal absolution bestowed on Galileo after four century’s 
long years of silence, to me, was not only the meaningless gesture of 
such an arrogant God’s institution but was the subversion of God’s majestic power or it means that God was ousted from his throne and became subservient to his own creature, man.

After all, it can be said that then,
it was not because the earth revolved on its own axis, time flowed, 
or the earth orbited the sun, seasons changed.  But because I think 
time flows, the time flows.  I feel seasons change, the seasons change.

For my wildest notion came to this far I felt uneasy inside.  I wanted to hear sound of passing clouds, I was keen on seeing winds pile up under my feet, in this utter stand-still-soundless world.

That is why I thought I should spin earth with all my strength, 
though I was weak and flabby. I pushed earth leaning myself
against air, I pulled it, I tried to carry it on my back, but, alas, earth did not move.

I was, therefore, all run down, and that’s why I laid on the ground 
staring at the sky and grumbled just like that cowardly Galileo muttered 
while exiting from a sacred and inviolable court of the Inquisition after his recantation, “E pur si mouve”—[But it does not move!]

As I grumbled, I heard the sound of drifting clouds, 
I saw flowing water resting on the corolla becoming clear dew, 
I was stepping on the pile of fallen leaves blown by the passing winds.  And even, before I was aware of them, I noticed that stars were twinkling in the darkening sky high above.
© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.

Free Cee of Bricks and Bubbles

A   BUTTERFLY   BLOWING   BUBBLES

I was catching bubbles in a butterfly net for beauty’s sake
Needless ‘tis to say sans any success
The second I secured one it would summarily break
And I left with but bubbles that burst to confess

First I was cursed when the last bubble burst
A rainbow reflecting orb that orbited a galaxy of glory
But bubbles burst as was well rehearsed
And alas a lady’s allegiance became all but an allegory

The bubbles were the lady’s biblical sign of sorrow
A parable comparable to pain
The butterfly net an ineffective trap untamed by tomorrow
Because bubbles don’t fare well in the rain

That rain was a metaphor for a meteor shower
The sky’s tale told by tempestuousness and temptation
A symbol of sordidness and a parable of power
A fable able to create total alienation

Damn girl
The consequence of your comeuppance screwed things up completely
Not to mention quite indiscreetly
You messed things up in a major way
By a means of misery only the heartless may
You turned beautiful bubbles into beleaguering bricks
With flagrantly fragrant candles missing their wicks 
You burst my bubble of beauty by begetting the misbegotten
And now you and those burst bubbles may never be forgotten
Because damn girl………..
You really and royally screwed things up
So excuse me as I try catching bubbles in a half-empty cup 
                                 © 2012…PHREEPOETREE ..~free cee!~

Premium Member Quest

The first exploration was to the moon
 Where we saw how its craters are hewn
 We have orbited Jupiter to unveil the shroud
 and unlocked the mystery beneath its dense cloud,
 Man's curiousity has taken him to Mars
 He's seen Saturn's rings as he journeyed among the stars,
 Traveling to planets light years away
 To reveal mysteries long held at bay
 Exploring the universe is the ultimate goal
 But they must avoid the deadly black hole,
 and as the technology does improve
 To colonize other planets is the next move

  3-31-2023
  Sponsor: Constance La France
  Writing Challenge - 'Q' Words - Poetry Contest
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.

In An Old London Tavern

The warm, dark wood of high-backed stalls 
     enclosed us like a womb, 
and, nose to nose, we talked with eyes, 
     oblivious of the room. 

You shone with special radiance 
     that welled up from your soul, 
a subtle, golden inner light 
     I was honored to behold. 

The candle made our shadows dance 
     so merrily on the wall - 
our faces orbited the flame, 
     so happily enthralled. 

Your eyes were pale as opal stones, 
     translucent as the sea, 
and in their depths I know I saw 
     what looked like love to me. 

You were so fair, so beautiful, 
     so graceful, that you gave 
to me a blessed memory 
     I'll carry to the grave.

Premium Member Moon Walk

Moon Walk

They took off from Cape Kennedy
In a gasoline filled Saturn V
They orbited round
To find some smooth ground
In the Sea of Tranquility

So Neil Armstrong bounced on the moon
Like some extraterrestrial buffoon
But he wasn’t alone
And his space suited clone
Would be bouncing around very soon

The lunar module had some locks
To make sure the capsule undocks
They'd wired a flag
So it wouldn't sag
And then they came home with some rocks

I Bet

I bet you don't see the stars in his eyes 
The galaxies that encompass his mind 
The beauty of darkness 
Held within a heart 
That never knew how to love 
I bet you can't comprehend his thoughts that embody black holes 
Lost within the calamity of it all 
But my heart always had his embraced within the grip of my palm 
But it lead astray 
The constellations didn't quite align correctly 
The planets orbited incoherently  
And that path 
Mistakingly lead to you 
So here I am 
Lost within the concept of time and space 
Who fell in love with a star 
That was dead at first sight
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An Angel

To my little star,
She twinkles the most in the obscure, somber sky.
Though she is found so far, so far, yet she shines gleams happy.
Her dust: stardust the little silver powder which was left to me.
I was lonely, so was she.
At night, I stare at her, brooding about life.
At times, the other stars glare at me, because I love, cherish her tremendously
 I only wish to have an angel.
To eradicate past histories of pain, ancient memories of fears.
I always wished that she could come and give me company when I needed her the most.
Like a sister, like a mother, like a daughter.
She would sing me a lullaby, every night.
A sweet, soft melody amusing my ears.
A chirp, a giggle, a sheer ecstasy.
My little star, tiny white dot of the universe which enlightens my world with its tremulous light.
And that wish upon a star was conceived.
A wave of silvery-blue, brilliant light orbited around my room.
Everything seemed to alter: like as if I felt into a reverie.
Was it oblivion? 
No.
My angel with white, bright, sparkling wings was right here, on her feet, in front of me.
She was real, distinct, made of matter.
Blue eyes, pink lips, white barren face just like a fairytale.
Striking the crystal clear tears of mine, my angel is here.

Elegy For a Knight

Rise up, Scion of La Mancha.

Destiny orbited all that you were
and encompassed all that you possessed.

Windmills stood ten-fold to the fore
when you readied your lance 
and saddled your barn nag.

Its whipped hide and ungulated 
hoofs cantering towards betrayal 
and unfinished vows.

Your voice was virtuous in timbre 
against the manifest threat of cruel
malfeasance that roamed the lands 
of bogus hills and rampant mountains 
charging towards the crest of your 
enlightened honour.

Now, these burning candles about 
your casket hold the truth 
of your quests until, like you, 
they peter out and die.

And then, recitations of your Quixotic 
trials shall be cleaved from history.
Such is the eye of irony that wrests
away your conquests.

So, rise up Scion of La Mancha and challenge 
the lies. Ride abroad with purpose once more.
Or lay where you rest and let time become 
a biased judge to your well laid intentions.

Upon Espying Aesthetically Pleasing Females

I admit tubby distracted by a modeling
female physique when attempting to write,
an aching agony rips thru this son,
gripping with hard on – tight -
by Dickens constricting sensation,

who orbited the sun LX times
coon sitters himself heterosexual male,
where slumbering testosterone forces unite,
no matter my libido feels
deadened, this despite

the above mentioned
asthma ordinary devoid sexual drive,
when these eyes (brown and myopic) sight
even just a picture
oven an attractive gal fanciful flight

evokes dormant longings
crashing thru concentration
without any invite
sparring dueling animal urge,
I know ain't right

since being married,
and all (witches nothing to celibate)
boot even if aye hapt tubby
dim witted with cerebral blight
prurient predilections, would

nonetheless prevail causing affright,
whereby the photographed lovely lady
dashes out like shuttered image,
though only so few inches in height,
would make a bee line into an

unreachable cubbyhole,
 not totally airtight
just enough breathing room
to await darkening hour of night
than with lightspeed akin to meteorite

off into the farther reaches with a blink quite
invisible this quasi
holographic like pseudo sprite
leaves yours truly in the lurch ignite
ting a supposed sexual propensity gone cold

nay, no can do, cuz 
untethered high as a kite
electrifying animal desire forced to bite
the dust, though thankfully concupiscent pang
ordinarily not the least bit aroused, aye attest

nope, not lascivious provocative
Barenaked Ladies can NOT excite
an older fellow, whose adolescent body
seethed with hormonal secretion,
and any pretty young thang did alight

a stick up between still skinny legs,
hence people watching
(particularly gals), a birthright
even migrant and/or
teenage mutant ninja turtle doth delight

tool hook, but NOT touch
most times an effortless fight,
yet every once in a while atavistic
pulsations, asper call 
of the wild bobwhite

overrides instagramming, snapchatting,
and twittering uber with such might
even erupting sexless interludes of eunuch
or "FAKE" shining knight

chess moonlighting also  as “FAKE” playwright,
hence if perchance a beauty catches me sight
lack of youth in your favor
from my penitent penile plight!

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