Imagine an alternate universe, one born in the reverse rhythm of our own Big Bang.
In this cosmos, the arrow of time flows backward, not as a regression but as an elegant symmetry, a dance of retreating possibilities.
Galaxies do not expand into the void but instead coalesce, condensing into radiant singularities, the luminous echoes of futures we can never reach.
Here, light emerges only to fold inward, its journey truncated before it graces the expanse.
It is a universe hidden from us not by distance alone, but by the very nature of its existence—its glow always arriving too late, its truths eternally just beyond our grasp.
Yet, even unseen, such a realm invites awe.
It suggests that reality is not a single thread but a cosmic loom, weaving countless tapestries in both directions of time.
It is a humbling thought, a reminder that the cosmos, vast and intricate, may hold infinities we can sense only in the whispers of our dim imagination.
Categories:
singularities, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I dream in tensors, sleep in curves,
A fabric bent by mass that swerves—
Space and time, a unified song,
Where gravity has whispered long.
A point—no width, no height, no breadth,
A singularity spells time’s death.
But in the depths, a passage hides,
Through quantum seams, where dark divides.
A wormhole yawns, its throat aglow,
Two mouths that neither age nor know
The clocks we trust—what if they lie?
And stars are tunnels in the sky?
Where would it lead, this bridge we name,
From here to there, through flame or frame?
Perhaps to you, or somewhere free—
A loop in space, where I might be
Not bound by now, but yet—to be.
Categories:
singularities, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A lone petal unfurls
not a bloom,
not a flower,
no use to bees,
as one decrepit.
It's on its knees
trying to please
all alone.
It's an echo of a question,
yet to be asked.
It's a pose, unpoised, unprompted.
It's one eye, nose, or ear,
in defaced mask.
It's a one-handed clap,
an air-kiss from poked puckered lips
It's a hand-shake request
never returned.
a promise never spoken
a swing never swung
a trip never begun
a tear shed in solitude
a wave goodbye, never returned,
It's a mantra or
a musical note recited only once.
All these are clones of
of singularities,
koan and kin.
Categories:
singularities, anxiety, flower,
Form: Free verse
there's a death in your glance
that i have welcomed
in all abandonment
and in every instance
that i had become
a planet astray
i feel free in your gravity
there's a mischievous chance
fleeting and random
across the firmament
that you may look askance
so i may fathom
the depth of your gaze
your eyes hold singularities
and i am
already within horizon
so drag me along
my deconstruction
i'll let you murder me
with the stars
with all the lights of an ending night
i'll let you pull me in
through the hours
past the shards of a collapsing sky
and i am
in retrogade towards nowhere
helplessly ensnared
in your black hole stare
draw me in
there's a death in your glance
and i hope it's mine
Categories:
singularities, space,
Form: Rhyme
I, too, dislike poems.
I’ve tried runes (and rampikes)
but that’s affected
rather than merely effete.
So I call them
figments.
When people query
What do you write?
at a barbecue or birthday party
I say soliloquies,
fractals,
fragments.
Self-similarities,
singularities,
sculptures (scriptures), geometric shapes and series,
three dimensional triangles, spheres
and differential equations,
fractured fairy tales,
Rocky and Bullwinkle,
rectal impactions.
On the other hand,
bits, bots, bytes
remnants, scrap, earth
gobs of phlegm in grains of sand,
shards of glass in a slice of hell,
hunks and clumps, curds and whey, sleet and pain, slap in the face
sub-atomic particles, cell organelles,
chunks of energy, cookie crumbs,
rusty trucks stuck in mud, dustings for ghosts,
just plain dumb luck, rocks, concrete, but not tweets.
Categories:
singularities, birthday, earth, pain, people,
Form: Free verse
(dancing
celestial
objects)
o--*--o
******
o--------------------o
o--*--o
_______!_______
....}~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~{....
(revolving
sea of
stars)
o--*--o
******
?_____________?
o--*--o
_______!_______
(cosmic detonations)
....{~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~}....
[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
(devouring
dark
singularities)
*--o--*
**--**
**
*
.
Categories:
singularities, nature, space, spiritual,
Form: Concrete
Concrete entities
dead grass singularities
subliminal quakes
Categories:
singularities, age, conflict, death, holocaust,
Form: Haiku
Black Lives Matter
Bleak moors secure. No!
Legislative restrictions restrict. No!
Artificial equality marble. Yes!
Current runs last. Shooting blacks may be running or not. Why?
Kinematic singularities extend. Politicians and scientific contending?
Late starts resume. This a life, Yes!
Independent runs extend. This is a life Yes!
Very vitals snuff. What percentile is enough is enough
Extraordinary prerogatives exploit. What's the matter with us
Short sprints mean. Don't walk, run or talk be still innocent
Many moors tramp. racism trumps running rapidly distrust
Anti separatists endure. let us all come together
Tribal Bantu carry. More physical than physiological Don't know?
Those tortured vitals incline. Whose drawing the line and when?
Essential singularities run.
Racial equality bleeds. Let's end racist please
6/20/20
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Categories:
singularities, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic
This kindred of separation
this breed apart
this top of the food chain
and its self distinction by the manipulation of thumbs
This arrogance of intelligence
with its pocket-sized reasoning of knowledge
and by default applies its logic
this incongruent species of taking everything for granted
These nations of waring factions
and the tyrannies of their religions
and all their obsessive obsessions with death
and all their cognitive dissonance of life
All the distractions
the desperate intentions
to impart some measure of meaning
some inkling of purpose for a life they have never really lived
Predisposed to elitism
by their own sense of division
this bipedal predator of vertebrate mammalian
assumes all of creation was only created for them
And in their frustration
and with their playground experience
they build all manner of weapons
to beat the crap out of the people living with them
Still the sun shines
and only by its grace do they continue to exist
all the quantum theories and universal singularities
do not help them with catharsis
they survive only by the elements of a planetary symbiosis
Categories:
singularities, world,
Form: Free verse
7/26/16
I'm not kidding you
This is true
Be wary
Things rarely happen fairly
On either side of the estuaries
Will you do what is necessary
When looking into the face of what is scary?
I wouldn't be carefree
Or ever underestimate any adversary
Therefore the burden shall be carried
Across the entire prairie
And across waters frequented by ferries
Not all are buried
Inside a cemetery
At times I barely
Made it out, and was very
Close to death, took a breath to help prepare me
Meanwhile in space there was singularities
And breakthroughs being made simultaneously
All though some end up being only momentarily
At times the outcome apparently
Went terribly
Temporarily changed the environment and air we breathe
By: Dalton Ogletree
Categories:
singularities, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Wormholes winding wackily in space-time
Time twists and turns endlessly in space -time
Pulsars pirouetting with perfection in space-time
Singularities sitting silently waiting in space-time
Nascent nebula nestling together in space-time
Galaxies gorgeously gleaming spinning in space-time
Asteroids appearing aimless moving in space-time
Comets creating chaos as they travel in space-time
Divine deity’s design or quantum chance space-time
Universe unfurling unabated creating space-time
Bejewelled beauty begotten of space-time
Only a poet can promise perfection to match that which we dwell in.
Categories:
singularities, beauty, space, universe,
Form: Alliteration
From April to
September
our children’s ages
comprised
a power series - 2,
4, 8
then 8 turned 9
and the series
crumbled
though 2 & 4
remained
but in February - 4
turns 5
and all is lost
until April
when 2 turns 3
and we have 3 & 9
until September
when all
permutations
disappear.
Acquaintances,
including my wife
think it’s peculiar
that I
a) note,
b) remark, and
c) write a poem
on these vanishing
singularities
Maybe they're
right.
Categories:
singularities, age,
Form: Free verse
Longing floods my soul
For that first time we met
In our secret sylvan grove
Far from prying eyes
Where you first uncoverered
To me your silky alabaster globes
With their darkly crimson rings.
Then did the whole world seem alive
As every fibre of my being danced
In our communion with nature
In the union of our bodies.
How rich was that moment
As we lost our singularities
To become truly one and universal.
Now frailty enfeebles my frame
And I recognise that never again
Will we relive that glimpse of eternal ecstasy.
But the flame lives on in memory
And it will brightly burn
As long as our hearts beat true.
Never will I forget you.
Categories:
singularities, beauty, desire, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
I love this silence
It must have been like this that night
When God gave evidence
Of time hidden in eternity
And said: let there be light
Only God could mute
Immutability, and refute nothing
With his presence absolute
For what absolutely is must
Exist alone, and with nothing else
Can be but cannot be known
And even so I, another creator
Using words to make galaxies
Out of dream, must forever be
Alone. Writing is a silent art
But wait until I speak my mind
Aloud, wait until the lightning
Before the thunder roars
I shall be suddenly still.
Categories:
singularities, religion, science, god, god,
Form: Free verse
These graphite singularities
contain universes
unconceived,
awaiting
the Big Bang
of inspiration, but
narrative particles
escape like
Hawking radiation --
gravity’s diminution
evaporatively slow,
nearly virtual,
and random.
Categories:
singularities, allegory
Form: Free verse
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