Cosmic Fireflies Comments

A great message here. Exploration is good but not at the cost of humanity. Together we can build a better world. The urge to conquer the far-off worlds might estrange us to what's within reach. Well penned.

A sad outcome of mankind to always look beyond the poverty, injustice, evil and cruelty. To want to conquer new territories when people are being destroyed as the war for power is forever. We have to create a better world before we destroy new planets. An outstanding write.

I'm into me a secret mine, sentient treasure walking on me, a pavement of thinking maybe a knowledge or light I learn every atom of inside with insight sometimes imperceptibly I come out and behave outside as the light of power to prove and acquire the limitation of unlimited dream, compose a battle of biased argument or shed the cosmic ignorant blo0d!

Fireflies! ! Life, Earth, mankind and other planets. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

I love the message of this poem. This is how I felt reading it: Why do we spend so much money and energy to find out what happens to far away stars and celestial bodies. We really see only lights and darkness alternating, and interpret perhaps completely wrongly from our very limited conceptual framework of what it present on earth. Why we spend so much energy on fusing atoms, when our simple problems of not enough love and care among ourselves are not yet solved. Excellent poem, Denis.

1- Great interesting poem. We the sentient beings are aware of ourselves as superior species. Still in the eternity of time our presence may be short lived. To meet some other intelligent being is certainly the dream of mankind.

2- But the bigger question that comes to mind is what the human beings will do if given a chance to encounter another superior being. Would we try to subordinat like we have been doing with animals and our helpless brothers and sisters or will we change for better to learn to live in harmony. Thought provoling poem! Like the title!

I wonder if the self-destructive element in sapient beings will deny us the opportunity of meeting other " firefies" from other parts of the universe. The time scale of highly developed societies could be remarkably short in view of the current world problems. Your poem is very thought-provoking and of genuine quality.

Part 4: Oh right - sapient! sapiens..., of course. Ok, I get it. I don't read science fiction; -)

Part 3: Did you perhaps mean to use one word that differentiates us from animals? I’m struggling to find one. Thought of “intelligent” - animals are too; “savant” with the idea of being conscious of being conscious, but it apparently refers to a type of autism. Not sure. By the way, I read this - “what makes our minds unique: language, foresight, mind reading, intelligence, culture, and morality.” Would you agree?

Part 2: I’m wondering if you’re referring to humans as being the only “sentient species” on earth? I understood that sentient means being alive and able to feel, which I guess is true of all creatures with a central nervous system.

I like the idea of looking at humans from space and through time (I think that’s what you’re doing) and seeing them as fireflies - short lived creatures that in living, do it destructively. “Flashbooms flicker in the sweep of time” is an excellent image, with your own word coinage, I suspect. Ok, ow I see that the idea is from Michio Kaku. That figures... Great poem!

I think I should research cosmic fireflies to better grasp this great sublime poem in brevity. The title is very intellectually poetic and attractive to me. Those that fuse atoms to make terrible weapons ah very sad whoever they are. They should fuse atoms to make more telescopes instead. Kudos. Plz do review my newest poem too titled, ' smart phones and flashy cars....'

An excellent thought, written concisely.

High quality poetry, my friend. Excellent!