John Prophet

poem by John Prophet

Time! Divides. Dictates. Segments one from the next. Isolates one from the other. Epoch to epoch. Imprisoned within, impregnable. No escape. Twain shall never meet. Trapped. No escape. Live as prescribe. Era decid... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Personal odds. Personal time, space. Personal existence. Being. Birth, entering the realm. Probability. All that occurred. Ensued, for personal existence. Incalculable. Stars are born. Stares die. Planets form.... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Uniqueness obliterated. Ancient stories bubbling up. Bubbling up from the distant past. Generation after generation for millennia stories pass. Belief systems past forward. The archaic sliding into the future thro... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Corporeal. Encased. Trapped within. Separated from universal. Imprisoned. Sentenced. Serving time. Serving corporeal time. Time in the finite. Time in the restricted. All serving time. All suffer through. Separat... Read more

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Teetering. Humanity on the edge. Pace has quickened. Accelerating change, overwhelms. Inundating the senses. Power surges, crisscrossing the globe. Generations apart like never before. Fractures, tears in the mos... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Packaging. What’s outside. Wrapping, covering, hiding. Packaging. Different sizes, shapes, colors. Some shiny Some dull. Some simple. Some complex. No two alike. Packaging irrelevant covering. Shielding wh... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Product. Designed as such. Milled and honed. Hammered into shape. Devised in flame. Cooled by earth, and water. Molded into form. Programmed. Environmentally coded. Created in a tempest. Behaving as such. Battlin... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Sprites in the machine. Counting out infinite realities. Infinite possibilities. Sprites, existing cross realms. Wafting effortlessly betwixt and between. Sprites eternal, pausing for a while. Etching out time. ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Valley of the dark. From one rim to the next. Sojourn. Navigation from one side to the next. Fraught with peril. Valley deep, dark. Serpents full. Journey fraught with peril. No choice. From one rim to ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Thought Machine. From out of nowhere they come. Not here then here. Pop into existence into reality. Many simply fade away. Some become. Some materialize. Solidify. Occupy space. From ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Granite. Pounded. Chiseled. Formed. Daily routine. Pounded. Chiseled. Formed. What becomes. Years in the making. What once was no more. Earlier versions ignorant. Incomplete. Uninformed. Sage wisdom accumul... Read more

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Gauntlet. From birth to death. The gauntlet run. Staying alive, ancient course once laid out. Running the gauntlet. From physical to mental obstacles evolved. Survival of t... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Barren, devoid of soul. Black and white. Lifeless. Nothing to see. Artists required, pallet in hand, medium infinite. Painting reality. Imagining the art. Each decision. Each thought. a stroke, a stroke of the ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Dark. Dark forces await. Align. Lust for power innate. Innate in some. Some less scrupulous souls. History replete with examples. Humanity racked with war. Throwing stones, to dropping nukes. New dark actors e... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Clay. Clay People. Malleable. Time/location sculpts. Shapes. Forms. Dictates. Anyone, anything. Easily manipulated, controlled. Time/location, determines. Determines what we be. Who we are! Hunter/gatherer. Greek... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Perceptions. Understanding. View of things. Processing. Processing input. Informational input. Capable. Only so capable. Processing unit provided, only so capable. Limitations. Severe limitations. Like a do... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Scope. Scope of existence, reality. Personal reality. Like fish in a pond. No concept of the whole. Of what’s around. Living in slice, a pond. Instincts created, adjusted. Adjusted for the pond. Derived... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Coursing. Coursing through existence. Eyes open, journey begins. Starting point determined. Accident of birth. Genetics laid out. Accident of birth. Path? To be determined. Who we become will be the result. The r... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Being. Simply being. Awareness of being. Consciousness of being. Why? Why being at all? Luck of the draw? Decisions made by ancestors? Lineage to now, nothing more? Merely thinking animals, designed to f... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Estrangement. Severed. Cleaved, past from the here and now. Flopping. Flopping as it fades away. Smaller now. Memory dims. Pain lifts. Ceasing to exist. Never happened. Different future. Shifting. Shifting cou... Read more

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Culmination. All just culmination. Modernity. Reflection. Reflecting countless decisions, choices. Ancient choices. Recent choices. Choices made by others. Others long dead. All played a part. Essence, still in ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Formulaic. Life. Reality as designed. Everything, formula derived. Mathematics, algorithms unfathomable, deeply employed. Created. Universal designs. Infinite variations worked. Worked into each realm. Evo... Read more

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Grip. Mind grip. Consciousness encased. Encased within. Corporeal facade. Il­lusion. Clouds of consciousness. Each plugged In. Quantum clouds of potential. Endless fluctuations of probabilities. Foam of reality.... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Strangeness. Look. Look around. What the hell. What’s going on? Accepting what’s seen, what’s said. Flicker of existence. Firefly flash. What’s the point? Screaming headlong. Coming t... Read more

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Synergy. Interactions. Touches. Cross currents. Stuff of change. Lubricant of evolution. Driving force moving forward. Towards the future. Interactions, change engines synergy creating. Touches. Accelerat... Read more

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Incomprehensible. Beyond human scale. Look deep, deep into time. Through the beginning, through the darkly orb to another time. Then again, again and then again again. Limitless. Scales incomprehensible. Human limit... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Grand scheme. Grand truth. Grand wisdom. What’s known? Broad proclamations. Knowledge spouters. Blurry thoughts. False wisdom. False visions abound. Truth sayers. Experts all! Experts, charlatans laying down ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Mind. A malleable thing. Easily molded, manipulated, fooled. Constructed. Scaffolding erected. Materials layered. Sculpted to design specifications. Desired results programmed. Controllable. Group think. Garbage in, ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Grumpy Old Men. Always wondered. Grumpy old men. Where do they come from? Why do they exist? What made them so grumpy? When young, everything was a promise. Everything was possible. No limitations. Oysters on the ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

God no God! Battle rages. Some say yes. Some say no. What’s the point? Who cares? No one has proof, no proof whatsoever. No proof either way. “Faith”! Faith is a weasel word. What’s said w... Read more

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Understanding. Knowledge. The scale. Knowledge scale. Zero to infinite. Knowledge. Humanities boat barely leaving the dock. In relative terms, scarcely farther along than a salamander. Yet humanity ponders, asking... Read more

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Wonderment. What’s going on? Why anything? Limited capabilities. What’s the point? Why bother? Wonderment. Wonderment with the unknowns. All around infinite unknowns. Looking out. Reaching up. Infini... Read more

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Owned. Unaware. Information! Information flowing. Grabbing. Holding attention. Shifting perceptions. Warping attitudes. Mind control, global mind shaping. Unaware! Technology holding, grabbing control, causin... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Blue Marble. Terrarium! A terrarium really. That’s all it is. Around only void. Birth place. Consciousness, conduit. Great and small, all the same. From a distance all the same. Blue Marble. Compend... Read more

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Great or not. Those who were once, are no more. Firefly blink. Deep woods firefly flash. Most unnoticed, nothing left behind. Majesty and grandeur, mere dust in the breeze. Self important, indulgence. Self impor... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Technology erasing, folding, shaping. Viewpoints created, canceled. Heads in the cloud. Losing perspective. Fading away. Tech zombies. Constant influence attached to the face. The soul. Views erased, dictated, f... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Grid. Systems in place. Circling the globe. Overhead. Underneath. All around. Grip tightens. Mind grabbing, strangling the soul. Free will denied. Canceled. The grid reaches. Reaches into the mind. Asimov’... Read more

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Vortices. Life. Existence. Energy vortex. All, vibrations, fluctu­ations. Oscillating in a field. Field of never ending vibrations, energy. Base level quantum foam phasing in and out of realities. Dancing, pu... Read more

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Realms within realms. Within realms. Cascading, flowing realities. Never ending. Reality begets reality. Layered, fractals. Above, below, sided by side. Each a cosmos unto itself. Infinite multi realms. Fin... Read more

poem by John Prophet

All. All human endeavor. Millions of years in the making. All who ever lived. Great works of art, literature, music. All conquerors, great and small. All the great minds. All known intellect. All religions. All wh... Read more