We have lived to see so many
Things our fathers never did,
For unto us is now revealed
The things that once were hid.
To see the earth from outer space
And outer space from earth;
To view the womb as from within
And baby before birth.
To watch the cotyledon sprout
By time-lapse photography;
To witness the Oceanic Ridge
Submerged beneath the sea.
To read the double helix book,
Grow cattle and sheep from clone;
Build virtual worlds with avatars
From chips of silicon.
To travel the superhighway
Of knowledge in a flash;
From coins and paper currency
To plastic cards for cash.
We have broken the sound barrier,
Heard the roar of the Concorde;
We have seen His hand in nature
But not yet the face of God.
Copyright ©2009 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
