Long Quanta Poems

Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...

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Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...

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imagine, wonder, ponder, think
  nebulous nothing is "surely something"
  more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
  let's fantasise, let's dream awake
  utter the dubious name of nothing
  impostor corralled...

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POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION



Peers
by Michael R. Burch

These thoughts are alien, as through green slime
smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope,
positioning my bright oscilloscope
for better vantage, though I cannot see,
but only peer, as...

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AI POEMS

These are poems about AI (Art-ificial Intelligence) and poems about science.

The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch

The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.

It is years now
since they were first...

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Welcome, dear children of light...We are star seeds from the Galactic Federation of Planets...many of us are from different worlds, galaxies, universes and dimensions...working together for the harmonious existence of all life...and have been here...

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Oooh now then. Oh just wow. A scarlet salivating sentinel sentiment is wafting air at that door. Blowing. Blowing is not bubbling so do not count powder puffs or smoke globules that radiate sideways. It...

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To quantify an equation,
takes more than mere calculation,
Take the sun and moon, 
now consider they’re coordinations,
One 8 light minutes from earth, 
other just a single light second,
Both appear the same size in the sky, 
more...

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First there was oblivion, before emptiness began
Then everything grew from a (dot) and so forth into man
Using reverse extrapolation, large brains, and a plan 
Intelligent beings worked this out, as only they can

Logic itself explains...

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How refreshing to experience
     a reprieve from sultry weather
when hazy, hot,
     and humid warm front
     unleashes a very short sweaty tether.

Man hat tin...

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"Reduced, the mechanical universe -- 
which includes man -- 
naught is but countless quantum particles of force and matter 
in one vast void."
-- the Reality 
minus the magic

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In youth,...

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"The most vicious of all species, the human is reddest in tooth and
manicured claw."
-- the countless animal organisms
killed
on Beast Planet
 
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"Together let us mourn the gruesome death of...

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I
There is a revelation in nature
How does a beast nurse it's future 
generation?
Be it a vulture, wild boar, or Tasmanian Devil
Who teaches nature to sit, hungry for a day, on eggs, 
As reptiles sndcserpents do,...

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I fumbled across it, 
whilst tunnelling under a tree
The one superfluous atom,
left over from reality 
Now positioned straight ahead, 
looking directly into me
Emerging from some quanta,
imperceptible yet I can see
The missing nucleus of balance, 
and...

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Billowed in black by my schizophrenic ponderings, these personalities are somehow resolute.

Within a matrix of survival; they coincide.

Fractals of quanta and wavelengths that fall from grace, will soon depict a Homunculus face.

Spanning out into oblivion...

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"In and of itself bad, Pain alone has Objective Value for all conscious, feeling beings -- 
none, for instance, Rationally desiring bolts driven in its neck."
-- Logic 101
for monsters

*   *   *

Vomit...

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Evening gulped down our coffee 

                             ...

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Quantum Virtues

By Mark D. Stucky
The cosmos consists of infinite
        infinitesimal interactions
        of particles and energy.
The largest everything
    ...

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To pass through dura matter, leave the wilderness behind 
Exit above vast spaces, join imperceivable dots 
Have an out of body experience, each and every night 

Uncover reality, burn away banality 
Know why, observing a...

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As I gaze upon my shadow, 
it appears to grow a hole 
Just where my heart belongs, 
morphs a void into my soul 
Open to all the elements, 
sunlight shines right through 
split second after...

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why...the speed of light?

sit...a moment please   : )
cofcof...
each neural network dimensions time fractionally as
all...
be change and relative
nothings...
with respect times days passing without exact repeats
but...
that they are here then gone as all the tomorrows...

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In the labyrinth of thought, where neurons weave,
A cosmic dance, where perceptions deceive.
Synaptic constellations in a quantum trance,
Reality's illusion, a cerebral dance.

Thoughts, elusive particles, in strings entwined,
A kaleidoscope of consciousness, enigma defined.
Perception's prism, refracting the...

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or

Cool Physicists on the Bestseller List

"Outer space is another of life's great mysteries for an infinite number of 
 romantics who flunked out of basic physics."
         ...

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"Comprising countless quanta moving through space, Nature's nature reduced indifferent is to Pain."
-- the integrity of physics

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A lark on flitting east to brightly sing
a raven flapping west asudden met,
and...

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Its singularity is insular
until it stirs itself
and throws its restless particles away,
out to the blackened, hungry sea,
the heaving grace of irony
whose understanding is but to receive
and never to return.

Now in the steady beam of sacrifice
there...

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