Poetry and ScienceStill working my way through "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins, a sort of pilgrim's progress if you'll pardon the pun, and a little over technical at that, at least for the ordinary reader. A picture would paint a thousand words Still it's one of those books that every one should read whether you agree with him or not, and if you don't you'd better get your facts together, for all that and regardless of what direction you come from it is still an argument one step removed. What then? Working off some of the same bleak perspective and a once upon a time I penned the following ....
Marionettes
The stall laid out
Trinket and tawdry fare
Marionettes dancing.
And one blind to
Another
Threatening.
The gods of circumstance
Spinning their web,
A mask,
Abstractions,
The unredeemed
Small mercies.
And one concept
As mad as the next.
Ornaments...
All hanging by a thread
A thin film of insanity.
Purpose to
Its own
Regards.
Frank Murphy.
Photo: Cover: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.
4 comments:
Nice one Frank.
Thanks for the comment, Michael, good write up that for the Boyne Readings. Head down and observe and watch for the cross hairs!
FM.
You will want to be careful that you are not influenced by the Dawkins fellow , He's a wrong one
Tommy
Thanks for the comment, Tommy. Impossible to influence my good self.
FM.
Post a Comment