Poetry and Science (3)

Poetry and Science (3)

Adding to the comment on the "Meath Books" website, a very Happy Easter to everyone, and having said that I'm still reading a number of books at the same time and dipping in and out as the mood takes me though I've finished "The Blind Watchmaker". Very interesting this theory of  "natural selection, of intermediate steps and slow gradual cumulative selection as the ultimate explanation for our existence" and argument proven perhaps, but sure I'd want to know why? Watching "Master and Commander"  or something along those lines a number of years back I wrote the following. A humorous take, or intended as such, but then comedy is never very far from the other side of the coin. Or was that the parrot in Treasure Island! Pieces of eight!

A Galapagos Moment

Pressed,

To account

There was no use

Flogging a dead horse

The truth was out there somewhere

Birds feathering their nests

And the frogs spawning

Enough latitude

To get you to

The bar.

Dawns...

Spent numbering the leaves

Reported sightings.

Clambering over the rocks

And the spray billowing up

Niche and crag

The skeleton coastlines

Staring into an

Abyss!

Port side out

And starboard home

It was beat to quarters

Dog eat dog

And the lash!

And it was turtles,

All the way

Down!

Frank Murphy.

Photo: Lake Blanchardstown.