E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

I see them, clear as day. Smiling. Laughing. Crying. Life etched on their being! As they were. I see them as the were, so many years ago. So many lives embedded on my mind. There, they still live. Slipping away... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time to go. Time is short. A new home awaits. The voyage will be long. Very long. Longer than life. Longer than many many lives. No choice. System failing, star is failing. Solar system failing. No choice! New ho... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Life, like a drop of rain sliding down a pane of glass. The day we are born, our timeline begins. Slipstream of of existence rippling like rain on the move. Weaving to and fro, as our timeline extends. Decis... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Immense! In all aspects immense. Immense without limits. Never ending creation. Creation of possibilities. All possible iterations realized. Creation complex beyond understanding. Beyond the scope of most. Once i... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Gazing. Gazing into the night sky, as billions have done before. Looking into infinity. Contemplating existence, reality. Realizing all on this mote we live, confined. Like a prison, confined. A prison of though... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sum of everything. View of things, each unique. Each different. Incomplete. Confined by experience. Confined by the senses. Each different. Within limits each infinite, infinite in possibility. Infinite potential ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Old ways. Old ways of thinking. Primitive ways. Thinking derived out of fear, ignorance. Still being believed. A new age, with new ideas, new realities, sweeping it all away. All away In a flash of enlightenment.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It awakes. Organizing, arranging. Building. Moving evolving. Biology swarming creating. Slowly connects. Components created, improved replaced. Connection. Globally connections. Synaptic network evolves. Denser ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Position unique. Circled, enclosed. Complicated. Granular, genetic in nature. Designed, evolved. Expansive deep. Covering everything. Learn, takes time. Learn, fail, learn fail some more. No choice, trapped. Terrarium, d... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Bubbling broth. Raw. Filled raw. Emotional with instinct. Animal instinct. Spiced with attitude, arrogance. Writhing, bubbling, coalescing, searching for equilibrium. Steaming with self importance. Thrashing through t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Step. Step by step. One step at a time. Human limitations. One step at a time. Step by step humanity moves. Moves forward. Arrow of time. Grows. Limited. One human step. No more. Confines of human existence... 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

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 is a mirage. Spun up in a place unknown. Everything seen an illusion. Ghosts, vapors whiffing in an out of existence. Ghosts in the machine. Infinite iterations running simultaneously. Universe one of countl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Immersed in a medium. As figures in a painting. Limited in nature. Rules must be followed. Like an aquarium or a terrarium. Movement limited. Finite in nature. The medium inhabited, fluid. The medium four D... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

They came from within. Predetermined embryos, coded, inserted, born. Grew to the world they now inhabit. Learning at the granular level. Observed, information stored for future study. Years pass, totally Integrated... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Quantum mix, mist, cloud. Undulations of uncertainty. Information. Instantly projecting. Underpinning classical spacetime. Different dimension, level. Different laws. Cloud mechanics. Different rules. Information flo... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Contemplations. Inside and outside. Here to there. Contemplation. Outside world. What’s seen. Observed. Nature of things. Why things are? Much to mull. Yet finite. Inside world. Within the mind. Connected, yet ap... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Locked in time. Prisoners. Prisoners each to their own epoch. Choice. No choice. Conform, live as the time dictates. No choice. Look at their faces! Dealing. Dealing best they can with what’s been handed. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We have been taught. We have been programed. The veil grows thicker over our eyes. Our senses are limited. We see very little. Remove the veil. Think past what you were taught. Break the cocoon you’ve been ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Is what we do all there is? Do we create the universe in our minds? Are our ways the only ways? Are the ways of this world the only ways of sentient existence? Are we the crucible for future Univer... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Look into their eyes. Eager, wanting to know. Wanting to know what they got themselves into. Fresh faces, years before the first wrinkle. Blank slates hanging on our every word. Each time, a clean slate ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I see a place with starless skies. I see a dark smooth world endlessly afloat in the black, its star long since blinked out. Covered with small closely spaced geodesic domes. Geodesic domes all interconnected, al... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

See the Mona Lisa, now reverse the flow. Her image fading away. In flows through the brush then straight to the arm, past neural pathways, beaming back to the brain. Chemicals flow, electricity sparks. Poof, t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It’s all baked, baked into the equation. Human civilization genetically organized. Organized as prescribed in DNA. DNA code. The code that controls who, what we are, what we do. Procreation, self pres... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Horizon. History, past to present. Archaic to modernity. Upside down. Growth, exponential. Knowledge compounding. Technology circling the globe. Gazing, viewing the beginning. Revelations daily. Building on yes... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

How it changes as time flows on. All that we know we discover we don’t. More knowledge begets less understanding. I dance on a precipice. The edge of knowledge knowing I’ll never reall... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Gazing out into space, into infinity. I wander, my mind wanders. I see vistas. New, different vistas to explore. Where have I been? Where will I go? Light fades. Existence vaporizers, leaving this realm for the ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Deep into the bowels of existence I look. Deep into time. Deep into substance. Deep into reality I stare. Others stare back. Others looking. Throughout time. Others looking for answers. Answers into why. Why is t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Echoes! Faint echoes abound. Ghosts in the ether. Faint, subtle. Barely discernible. Information never lost yet nearly so. The void, filled with echoes, forever. Echoes of once was. Echoes filled with civilizatio... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Back in time. Staring back they are. Wondering about the Ancients they do. Wondering about those who came before. Deep history exploring. Digital archeology, searching. Searching for the Genesis planet. Ancestor ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Need to step back. Wound tight we are. spun up from birth. Force fed all we know. Everything we know from one tiny place. One mote of spacetime. Self important are we. Self important we think. Controlling, ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Black holes spinning. Radiation pulsing. Explosions Exploding, elements created. Gravity. Gravity collapsing. Collapsing the brew. Creations cauldron, mixing coalescing creating. Creators spark ignited. Ignited ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time, one big orb. Past. Present. Future. all touch all connect passing information around. As decisions occur, new future outcomes are created. A new future you is born. Information of the new future you, your fut... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Where are they? All those who never were. All those never born. Many reasons. War. Millions killed. Millions more never born. Whole lines of family future, poof. Generation after generation, poof. Never to be... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The anthropologist came a great distance to observe and study the recently discovered subjects. Nothing was know about them Nothing at all. The anthropologist was anxious to get to work to set up the study. The wo... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are born into an unknown world. Slowly we learn as we go. Taught by those who came before. Who in turn we're taught by those who came before. Generation after generation passing knowledge forward. Knowl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Cloud. Inward flow. Information accumulation. Flowing up. Cloud absorbing, storing. Archiving data, information. Mental generation. Ideas phase in from a different realm. Thoughts pinch off. Mind to cloud. Mind... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Walking thru a hazy mist. Incomplete vision of things I see. Mere shadows of underlying reality. Constituted thus, missing most of what is. Spinning. Spinning thru a make believe. Living in a foggy dream.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sense of size. Sense of dimension, scope and energy. Feels empty yet filled with energy. Surging energy. Levels of creation beyond scope, beyond understanding. Intellect directed. Seemingly invisible yet everywhere... Read more