E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

Modernity aspires but is built on shaky ground. Our knowledge so finite, much built on superstition and ignorance. The infinite beyond ours to know. Slowly, so slowly our knowledge grows, building on itself expanding faster as tim... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are the visible manifestation of a much deeper design. Like the tip of an iceberg most of what we are is out of view. Science tells us that only four percent of what makes up the Universe is visible to us, ninety six percent is u... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

When I was a young man I chased them by the score. They were fast, young and lean. Conquest was my aim, seduction was the game. Procreation, I was playing with biology's rules. I cared very little about much more. They were yo... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Out of the bog it rose. Slowly it grew, expanded. Complexity increasing. Controlling, ever increasing. Evolving in the beast. Fighting the animal. Struggling to survive. Struggling to grow to escape. Breaking ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Old timer. Reflecting. History, experience. Around the block then back again. Many times. Seasoned. Learnerd. Veteran of human existence. Worldview molded. Tempered under fire. Years in the making. Hammer, chise... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Eyes, where have they gone? Fixated stares. Focused stares. Mesmerized. Eyes, conduit to the soul. Entrance to the heart. No longer looking out. Seeing others, reality. Cyberspace holds sway. Streaming in, i... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Future you changes everyday. Who you become, who you will be is fluid. We, control the future, our destiny. Every choice made creates a new path, a new future you! Whether you be rich, whether you be poor, ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We enter this realm, like a pebble into a pond. Immediately we leave ripples. As we move along, the ripples grow interacting with other ripples an ocean of ripples. Our ripples commingle influence. Cascadin... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Since the first twitch, life’s been on the move. Moving. Always on the move. Growing. Expanding. Evolving. Devouring. Devouring to survive. Kill or be killed. Progress, on the backside of war, conquest.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Some say we’re born, we live, then die. That’s it. One grasp at the brass ring. That’s all. Therefore, do whatever it takes to come out on top. Step on, step over do whatever to win. Why not... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are fused, fused to reality. The reality we know. Not apart from but integral to. Our vibrations spread out imprinting this realm. Absorbed, our energy is reflected back, we are enveloped in what we a... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Eternal or nearly so. We see what we see. Nothing more. We speculate on the rest. Vastness beyond our world, unfathomable. Universe to multiverse to eternal, or nearly so. Universes budding one from anothe... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We live on an orb in the vastness of the void. Here, we are the apex predator. Humanity has risen to the top of the heap. We’ve organized the place as we see fit. Our intellect is unmatched. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Some say we live in a virtual world. A matrix. Our existence, digital. What does that mean? We’re not real? We’re not alive? I think therefore I’m not? How real is real? If virtual here,... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Toggle flipped. Spark of energy, program ignited. Universe born time flashes. Universe begets others. Huge numbers sparking into existence. Waves moving, universes born, live, fade away. Left in the wake. Frozen ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sailing through the crimson fog to places never seen. Soaring past strange worlds, stars, galaxies and time, I be. Seeing universes as they once were and yet to be. Sliding through alternate realities se... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I saw a women in a video. She was old walking slowly. The Video was seventy years old. It was made in Berlin after the war. Smashed buildings everywhere, smashed lives too. Where she was headed, I had no idea. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Bright beyond description. Local spacetime begins. Nothing before. Nothing in this realm, others in numbers unfathomable. Dance of creation, spinning into existence. Trillions of years in the making, beginning t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Just out of the womb are we. Still in the cradle naive beyond belief. Center of the universe we were. Made in “Gods” image we knew. Now, the veil begins to lift. Looking out of the cradle we ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Waltz of humanity. Spinning. Spinning out of the goo. Landing on our feet. Look around then organize. Organize to survive. Organization requires hierarchy. Hierarchy requires power, power to control. Humanity ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Humanities underbelly. A place less visible. Yet, true nonetheless. Why? Why this seedy aspect of human nature? Writhing influence on the soul of mankind. Hidden in the shadows. Pervasive. Bubbling to the fore. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Exteriors varied. Different colors, different shapes, different sizes. Each unique. Each a universe unto itself. What emanates from within? What can be known about the core? How does the shell move? How does ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are animals. Having the same instincts as any animal. Law of the jungle courses through our veins. Hormones flush clouding judgement, wrecking havoc on reason and intellect. Procreation, self preservation stro... Read more

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Why arrogance? Some, believe themselves superior, better than others. Why? Money makes some arrogant. Power makes some arrogant. Birthright makes some arrogant. Arrogance alters perceptions, perceptions of reality. Cr... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Clean slate at birth. Filled up, programed over time. Information force fed, pushed into minds. Created. Created by location, environment. Information from the past. Ancient information told as truth. Whose tr... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

DNA, computer code. It dictates all. Gender, physical features. Personality, intellect everything! Instinct, how does a baby know to suckle at birth? Instinct? What’s that? It’s coded to know. Just l... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Crickets sounding their enchanting sound. Peeper choruses from the pond, finely tuned, while Bullfrogs barup their baritone song. Swooping bats devouring, warm breezes dancing. Owl hoots deep in the woods. Coyotes h... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Flowing through space and time. Wandering dimensionally through ethereal realms and back. Sliver of reality we live, oblivious of all that exists. Writhing in the bog, clawing to survive. Looking up looking... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The other side. It happened. In a flash. Event horizon crossed. Singularity A.I melding. Brains connected, all connected. Gaia born, global brain, intelligence all connected uploaded. Cloud, all now live in the c... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Hand on the wall, creation complete. Mouth full of pigment, sprayed on the hand. Artist signature for the eons to observe. I was here the artist shouts out. You don’t know who I am, but, I was he... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Is there a God? Big question! I do not know. No one knows. I do know, however, there is a creator. I look around, what do I see? I see things, created things. I see created things. A creator does not ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Immersed in fog are we. Spirits moving. Moving in uncertainty. Sprung up from fog. Basic reality quantum uncertain. Sprung up from nothing, nothing at all. Spirits are we, spring up from, then falling back into noth... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We who walk this world, who are now alive. Trapped! We are trapped. Trapped in ourselves, trapped on this rock. We live, we think, we die. What to do? What do we do while we’re here? Trapped in our exist... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It will be painful, generational. Hard to keep up. The old will resist fight the loss of their world. Change will be blinding, the fabric of civilization fraying turning to dust. Everything known will be ob... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Jockeying for position. Defining pecking order. Defining power. Sea of motion. Pushing for control, supremacy. Carving out a place for survival. Quagmire of resistance. Humanities dance of existence. Has always ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Look around. A world designed. Billions of years in the making. Fine tuned, made perfect. Flowing water. Warm temperatures. Sustainable. Look around a world designed. All things made came from Gaia. All things ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Souls. Countless souls have past this way. Appearing out of nowhere. Heading to the same. Volume of spacetime inhabited. Briefly. Morphing biology. Evolving matter, energy. Orb of genesis spinning in oblivi... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Ascent of mankind. From the deep forest of Europe, to the Serengeti in Africa. Man evolved. From the great cities of Europe through the deep cultures of Asia. Good vs Evil. Rocket fuel propelling things along.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Everything will die. Then what’s the point? What’s the point to life? Why life? Why live at all? I think therefore I die. Was I here to learn, to experience? Was I here by chance, kismet? I... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Beyond the seeable. It awaits. Around the bend it hides, plotting. Over the horizon the trend disappears, where unknowable resides. Today, not guaranteeing tomorrow, not resembling the soon to be. Trave... Read more