E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

Lies. What can be believed? Lies. The world is full of lies. Agenda driven lies. Followers. Hanging on every word, every lie. By nature followers. Wearing the fashion du jour. Fashion they were told to wear. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Mathematics. Language of the gods. Bits and bytes. Numbers et al. Functions. Function of reality. Unseen concepts. Foundation of emptiness. Substrate of existence. Meaningless. Means nothing unless interpreted. In... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Days. One after the other. Each a cell in a long running movie. A living movie. Preordained, predetermined drama. Each day a cell In a roll, spinning roll. Canned. Already in the can. A movie already made. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Creative. Sculpting. Word sculptures. Word constructs. Solid. Stoic. Granite, hard stone. Once crafted, forever. Forever In the realm, here and now. Something from nothing. Pulled from the ether. Concept, thoug... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Blank slate. When born, born as a blank slate. No preconceptions. No ideas. No ideas on anything. No political leanings. No religious beliefs. No ethnic identity. At birth the mind’s open for business. Then it be... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Hostage. Intelligence held hostage. Buffeted. Buffeted at every turn. Biology grabs by the throat. Submission. Demanding primordial allegiance. Allegiance to programming. How designed. Where laws of the jungle run... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Programmers Brew. Coded. Programmed in from the start. All data entered. Button pushed. All there. All included. Spun, exploded into action. Existence. One reaction to the next. One step to the next. Data sets i... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Flowing. Waves of energy, information. Flowing through. Flowing, mixing ethers brew. Mixing streams. Streams of information dimensionally unbounded, commingling. Knots. Tight knots of creations energy information ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Dystopia utopia. Which will it be? Stakes are high. Humanity on the brink. World spinning faster. Faster every day. Wound tighter. Every day, wound tighter. Tentacles of technology wrapped around the soul. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Archaic beliefs. What we believe. Why we believe? We believe what we are told, taught. Archaic thinking help up as gospel. Ancient, primitive ideas held high as truth. Still believed. Ancient ways revered ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Aspirants. Baseline. Animals. Animals at heart. Mammals in fact. No different. Same as any other. Civilization designed around the animal. Made in animals nature. Image. Basic, raw behavior. Intelligence sophist... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Menticide. Global descent. Puppet masters. 1984. Chaos Bewilderment. Fear. Tools of the masters. The few controlling the many. Power. At all costs, power. Disagreement not allowed. Freedom of speech. Unacceptabl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

War. Technological war on humanity has begun. Battle lines drawn. Been infiltrating for years. Imperceptible at first. Subtle in its approach. Entwining itself amongst its makers. Used for the common good. Then, ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Evaporation. The future evaporates with every choice. Those, who would be known, will not. Others will. Children that would’ve been born, will not. Others will. Places that would have been. Unseen. Future a... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Crushed. Change. Everything that was will be no more. Accelerating change. Faster than before. Attitudes. Traditions. Beliefs. Unrecognizable. The future. Fast approaching blur. Lifetime lived, traditions Intact.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Hypnotic. Captured audience. Hours each day. Penetrating. Pumping information deep. Deep into the soul. Hypnotic manifestation. Shaping the populace. Loyal zombies. Outraged zombies. Garbage in. Garbage out. Humani... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Melding. It’s begun. Psychological dependency. Addictive. Drug like. In your face. Can’t let go. In your brain. Embedded. No escape. Soon embedded deep within. Cyborgs on the way. Old ways crumbl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Consciousness Global consciousness. Billions of minds collecting, coalescing, melding as one. Writhing consciousness, comings and goings shape shifting. Along the way, new concepts born then spread. Collaborat... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Archaic beliefs. What we believe. Why we believe? We believe what we are told, taught. Archaic thinking help up as gospel. Ancient, primitive ideas held high as truth. Still believed. Ancient ways revered ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Wheel. Spinning wheel. Gyrations through. Through the ether fly. Creating along the way. Churning ethereal mist. Fabricating realities. Spinning up substance. Walking on solid ground. Infinite wheels spinning. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Where are they? The question asked is. The Fermi Paradox. Where are they? Where are the others? From other stars. Are we alone? Naive, stupid question! Look around. Animals on this rock. Slaughtering millions. M... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Enlightenment. Emergence from darkness to light. Continuous emergence. Never finished. Enlightenment. Always more. Knowledge cone expanding. Continuously expanding. Continuously brightening. Enlightenment glows brigh... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Knitting. Creating. Creating reality. Proactively creating reality. Each choice redirects, changes course. Which changes reality. Churning the ether. Probability the twine. Global choosing knits the future. Cre... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Power. Crack the door open, they’ll kick it right in! Power, control, subtlety of approach. Come in from below. Infiltrate unseen. Injection, directly in. Unaware they must be less plans go awry. Vicious ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Bright sunny day. There’s a time, in each persons life, when the facade falls away! Early on, possibilities seem endless. Everything is new. Exciting. Youth has it all figured out. How things will go. How... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Metaverse. Where ways as now known disappear. Crumble. Gone. One generation next. Virtual worlds. Virtual pleasures. Total emersion. Functional interactions globally. Borders evaporate. No screen in the face. L... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time. Indifferent. Irrelevant. Cares not. Uninvolved concept. Spinning illusion. Relationship. Between beginnings and endings. Time lives. In between concept. Tendrils, wisps of thought. Comprehension slippery ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

You. What are you you? Born as you are. Personality, talents baked in. At conception baked in. Mixing genetics. Ingredients prearranged, listed, blended. Toss of the dice. Wielding outcomes. Mixing traits. How... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Wielding power. Power to control, dominate. Used for subjugation. Power used to enrich enhance. Unscrupulous power. Power taken by a few to control the many. Pompous power, mindset superiority. Superiority. T... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What imprint will be left? How will the ether be plucked? How deep will the vibrations be? What’s left behind vibrates through time. Interacts, reflects, deflects. Resonates with all that came before... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Ritual. Comfort in ritual. Dark forbodding place. Ancient, unknown. Ancient times filled with uncertainty. Dangers everywhere. Enter ritual. Special places. Gatherings, holding darkness at bay. Group. Safety in n... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Rene Descartes said “Cogito ergo sum” “I think therefor I am”. Consciousness of being is true regardless our reality, be it corporeal, digital or mechanical. We may live in a computer simulation, or made ou... Read more

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and will on many more. Each have proven unique, with many lessons to learn. I’ve traveled far but have farther still to go. The road is long and tiresome, with many falling and failing to finish the task. Failing in any wor... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It began as the second decade of the 21 Century entered middle age, an underlying sense of unease, change. New technology increasingly altering perceptions. Reality not seeming so sure. Our five senses, were they enough? Were they te... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Earth is becoming something different, something more. For millions of years proto-humans strode its bounties until Homo sapiens arrived. Once here, humans took millennia incrementally building improving its lot in life. Step by st... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What are we? Why are we? How do we? It’s an infinite place and we so very small. We seem so very much apart. Do we even belong? How could we ever learn it all? We look out, we look up, we look down and we look under. We fee... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Where did you come from? Every ancestor you ever had, had to beget with who they begot. If any link in the chain begot with someone different. If someone turned left instead of right. You’d not be here today. By being here... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We Live in a terrarium.. With our lives we scurry around like little ants. We run to the store. We run to the Dentist. We run to pick up the children. We run to our jobs. Every day pretty much like the rest. Some hold out their... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

What is God? What is a god? It’s all relative. It’s all semantics really. To those who wandered this globe fifty thousand years ago we’d be gods. Would those who live fifty thousand years from now be looked o... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Took a walk with my dog Rosie the other day. Walked by the orchard on the hill that we go by on our stroll, stopped to look back as I always do. It’s a very pleasant sight regardless of the season. The trees lined up in rows w... Read more