A Glorious Dawn

Posted by Eric P. Metze On September 25, 2009 1 COMMENT

What happens when you mix art, poetry, music, science, philosophy, and genius? This video. Easily one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen. I haven’t felt this numinous since I first read Cosmos. I can’t thank the author of this video enough, and I look forward to enjoying more like it. If you only watch  [ Read More ]

My Statement of Aesthetics

Posted by Eric P. Metze On December 4, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

Initially, I took my first poetry class because I thought that poetry and prose were two completely different things, and I needed to explore my poetic side. But, as the semester progressed, I quickly discovered that they are imperatively inseparable. Poetry keeps prose fresh, healthy, and beautiful. I have compared some of my prose from  [ Read More ]

Trinity

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 26, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

In a time before Ground Zero meant something else, After our cousins Einstein, Teller, and Oppenheimer, In an empty desert guarded by squat mountains, Humanity took its first step into another age With the detonation of a bomb named Trinity. We viewed the Opening from miles away, As creatures with fragile bodies must do. Even  [ Read More ]

Sphere

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 20, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

sphere infinite sides and points generated within the Euclidian geometry framework, expressing natural beauty, finite in design yet infinite in possibilities, creating truly unlimited sides and angles and points complex actions are condensed into simple equations, as the pie are squared, bringing all points together

Dog Spiel

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 19, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

In our schools and public places The meme of submission minus reason perpetuates; Replicates like bacteria in our sweet minds. We live, some learn, and work ourselves to death, But that was why we were created, wasn’t it? So much needless and mindless discussion, Of things that do and change nothing. Philosophists invent discussions, decorated  [ Read More ]

The Gospel

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 14, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

God, protect me from your people, With closed minds and blind third eyes. Misinformation and half-truths Are barely discernable from the lies. I’ve felt your presence and your power, My biology is impossible to deny. But I do not fear to think these thoughts, I’d rather know uncomfortable truths than reassuring lies. I appreciate all  [ Read More ]

Out of Palce

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 12, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

I was not in my right mind, I think. While on vacation in Constantinople, I thought I found a nice local café Where I could snuggle up with a dry martini. I thought I’d found a cozy place, But discovered my mistake too late. I sat down at a round table, with only one chair,  [ Read More ]

Cosmos XI. The Persistence of Memory

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 5, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

Information is important to Life, and Earth is positively rippling with both. Quasi-intelligent beings that never see the light of day live on inside us, While mindless molecular machines copy our biological biography With the guided precision of a skilled craftsman. All living creatures store libraries of information in their genes, But many beings are  [ Read More ]

Cosmos VIII. Travels in Space and Time

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 4, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

Before the Sun rose and set in the sky of Earth, A giant blue-green rock spun lazily around its star. Then a being, mostly calling itself Man, Gave names to these gods of the ground and sky. Our solitary sun floats with its family of planets. A grain of sand in a beach too massive  [ Read More ]

Cosmos XII. Encyclopaedia Galactica

Posted by Eric P. Metze On November 2, 2002 ADD COMMENTS

Ethereal lights in the sky, unexplainable phenomena, And alleged astronauts older than any nation Lead many to believe we’re inundated with uninvited guests. Though I wish it were so, it probably just isn’t true. It could be that we have not been discovered, And our xenophobia causes us to see lights in the sky. Besides,  [ Read More ]