E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

Einstein called it spacetime, opposite sides of the same coin. The Universe is expanding. In fact, science says the expansion is speeding up. But what is it expanding into? Time gives us a clue. What is time expanding into? Yesterda... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What is truth? We live our lives being told what is true. Truths in science fall by the wayside when new “truths” are discovered. But, how true are they? Religions will tell you their truths. Problem is, few agree. So... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Where do we live? Is this place even real? How real is real? We open our eyes and find ourselves here. But, where is here? We accept what we see, what else can we do? We move through life doing what we do. It all seems normal l... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It slips in at night. Stealthy and low at first. A few flakes pick up speed as the first low howl can be heard. Wind howls against the house, branches scratching at the window like a cat trying to get in. Heavy wet snow can be hear... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The waters have calmed. The kayak slips by while the warm breeze blows light. The loon eerily sounds it is near. Sun drenched clouds ooze vanilla cream. The sunset throws an orange purple light over it all. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sun glistening off the tropical bay. White cotton balls float by reflecting Suns rays. Surf down below melodically soothing the way. Vistas of ocean from the left to the right, spotted with green jewels enhancing the sight. Sea b... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What do you believe? Why do you believe it? How did you learn it? Who taught you? What where their motives? Ideas not men rule the world. Some believe in religion, some do not. Some believe in life after death, some do not. So... Read more

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Simmering on a distant shore, my minds eye floats upon. Swirling thought upon swirling thought do my reflections grow. Infinite realms offer fertile grounds to burrow through. Mountains of realities the minds eye sees one as real a... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What does it look like? What does it sound like? How does it read? Is there beauty in mathematics? Are physics formulations beautiful? Is artistic beauty in all its forms discovered or created? Did Isaac Newton invent his mathemat... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We delude ourselves, always have, still do. Center of everything, gods’ favorite, we knew. How immature! We follow rituals begun thousands of years ago. Started by those who knew next to nothing of where they lived. Their p... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What kind of God would treat us this way? In mankind the wide spectrum between evil to good can be found. In some, such kindness, while in others a wickedness not to be believed is in play. The ancients believed the gods in Olympus... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Lives have been lived by millions of people that have been forgotten or worse never known. People that walked our world, looked at the same sun, the same moon that we see today. Lived lives, had families, lost loved ones, held jobs. T... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The universe above my head massive in size with spinning galaxy’s and exploding stars. I sit in my little home warm being content. None of that really bothers me. I got up to adjust my blinds and see the birds in the bird-fe... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Some say it all started with a violent explosion, let there be light, a Big Bang. White hot plasma swirling around expanding in an amazing bound. After a while things cooled, came together, began to slow down. Hydrogen and helium gas ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Photographs are time machines to the past. Instant moments in time reflecting back to current eyes. A street scene of Boston is hung on my wall, a moment sliced out of time from 1893. Trolley cars side by side waggling down the ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Some say the Garden of Eden was a myth, that such a beautiful place never existed. The Universe is a cold forbidding inhospitable place, a place filled with frozen gases, balls of fire, cosmic radiation that can fry one alive, dea... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are so different, but we’re so much alike. We all look different, but we all look the same. We all think alike, but we believe differently. Evil lives on earth but the divine is in play. We all love our children, but we ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I was born here. You were born there. I was raised here. You where raised there. I was educated here. You were educated there. I have my beliefs. You have your beliefs. We do not agree. We may go to war. If I were born there... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We enter the scene but do not hang around, shortly back into the ether we bound. We are just flesh and bone, in the end just ashes and soot is all that is found. It’s what we leave behind that may make a difference, that may ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We see good and evil in our world. To make sense of it great myths of the light and the dark have been born. Great stories down through the eons have flowed, great battles fought, forever being told. Gods in the heavens, demons in th... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The Fermi Paradox: Where is everyone? The Universe is nearly 14 billion years old say those in the know. Enough time to populate our galaxy they say! But is this really so? The elements in our bodies were created in the stars, bl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

How does a bird know how to build a nest? Does it learn from its parents? Does it watch other birds? No to either. Instinct is what is said. How do baby Sea Turtles know to head for the ocean after hatching? Were they taught? No on... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Are we ready for what’s to come? Will we know how to behave? Never before in human history has there been such disruption. It was once a much simpler place. No more. The future is arriving faster than ever before. Gaia now h... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

A speck of blue in the limitless black. The infinite of existence. All we know so finite. Like a fish in an aquarium whose universe consists of the aquarium and what little is observable in the immediate surrounding. The fish has... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are born when we are born. We look around and see what we see. We then get on with it. We deal with what we have. This was true for those born one thousand years ago. It is true today. It will be true for those born one thous... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Watch the people. They are changing right in front of our eyes. Slowly, incrementally, they’re evolving, becoming something else, something more, something different. A new paradigm is emerging. Not very ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are all surfing the wave of time. In times immediate wake is the frothiness of near history. Smooths out as the wave moves on. The wave churns and gurgles as the past is being created. We the flotsam and jetsam along for the ri... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What did it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human? What will it mean to be human? Humanity has fought and clawed its way to the current. Wars and superstitions filled our hearts and minds. King of the mountain was the g... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sciences has opened our eyes on many fronts. We have learned much, but there is infinite knowledge to go. The Universe is larger than humans can possibly know. Our Universe as large as it is, is dwarfed in the Multiverse. So much ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Humankind has been grasping for knowledge from the beginning, fear of the unknown was always forbidding. Why does the wind blow? Why does the sky crack open with light, sound and fury? Why do the oceans roil with such anger? Ho... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What the human mind can conjure.There is a Creator, in my mind there is no doubt. To some degree I can know a mans mind, but the Creators mind is beyond mine to know. There are charlatans amongst us who’ll tell us they know.The... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

was conducted on a global scale, taking billions of years in local space time. Mere moments in the time of the Initiators. Their quantum computers able to crunch numbers beyond human comprehension. The simulation experiment would ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I pray every night, have all my life. Have no proof anyone is listening, but I hope there is. It just may be a reinforcing technique, I'm not really sure. A prayer is a harmless thing hurts no one in its passing. I've lost faith i... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Why do we feel love? Do we even know what loves is? How do you know when we’re in love? Does anyone really know? Songs have been sung about love for thousands of years. Stories, poems, books and movies flood our senses abo... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Fading. Transformation. Pivot point. The past’s dissolving, fading away. Always has. Different now. Memories altered. Rewritten. Movement forward. Faster. Blurring. Acceleration. Fond past memories few and far b... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Traversing the hills, caressing the trees, gently swirling the scene. Life's medium moves, ebbs and flows surrounding all with subtle sensation. Moving all with jocularity. Ripples across an endless water. Lifting wings, s... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What's the point? To life I mean. Here, we find ourselves following The crowd. Doing as those who came before. Why? Did they know something, anything, about anything? Mindless lemmings are we? Are we... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Like a bottle into a sea, I toss thee into the infinite. The never ending roll of waves that make up a brave new brine. Like a bottle into a sea, I toss thee into a new roil.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Hairless Ape. Thinking Ape. Eons in the making. Struggling to understand. Understand its place in things. Understand how It came to be. Understand what being even is. Time passes ideas arise. Competing ideas. Ideas ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Convergence. Technology disruption. Forthcoming. Blending as one. Moving forward as one. Feeding one off the other. Entangled. Never before such speed. Such growth. Cracking reality as understood. Blurring lines. ... Read more