Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Original Soup Of Life Comments

Rating: 4.8

Tell me, how can six feet of DNA get wound up inside a nucleus that is measured in microns?

How can so much thread get unspooled without tangling? And how does it get wound up again like a hawser?
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Denis Mair
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Itohan Stephanie # 27 June 2025

I love this poem.thank you for this piece

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Rob Lamberton 15 March 2024

"And what about a woman? Her way of sending a person spinning"

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Rob Lamberton 15 March 2024

I used to be a biology major too!

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Rob Lamberton 15 March 2024

"Behind the rigid fact there is a dance which is never confined to this moment."

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John Carter Brown 05 March 2024

Boy, this is one heck of a lot of information for me. Mind boggling.

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Ruth Walters 05 March 2024

This poem held me, the idea is brilliant! There are so many unanswered questions in life.

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Indira Renganathan 13 August 2023

Too inspiring...as Susan puts it this poem should be given multiple visits to enjoy...this poem teaches many things to me...amazing write...thank you

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Jim McGill 01 June 2023

Thank you for sharing this.

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Prabhata Kumar Sahoo 30 April 2023

After a long days.....

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Thomas Case 11 March 2023

This poem is powerful

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Tom Allport 13 July 2022

A wonderful write about the miracle of just being in the living cosmic ocean.

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S.zaynab Kamoonpuri 02 May 2021

Cont/. Thus God the creator of the well spring of life with clay and water, the one who cooked the figurative primordial soup, the one who planted the microbial mat the first form of life, the creator of the matrix that your clever complex poem talks of. Kudos for a scientist calibre poem.

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S.zaynab Kamoonpuri 02 May 2021

A bright stellar awesome muse on coding and DNA, intellectual and eloquent questions indeed, the answers lead to the higher power who is the intelligent reader and writer of the DNA info and more, as author of the universe,

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Akhtar Jawad 27 December 2019

How Amino Acids were produced, and how matter started reproducing, a very difficult topic and man could not understand it yet completely. We the believers have a very easy reply that there is a God who did it. However the poet is a great philosopher, he thinks and has succeeded to explain the evolution of life up to a certain extent.

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Denis Mair 27 December 2019

Thanks for the encouragement, Aktar! Sometimes I come close to believing in the Creator. By learning about life's complexities, I hope to get an inkling of what was/is going through the Creator's mind. Maybe this is my way of paying tribute to the Creation. Of course, I mustn't forget that loving conduct is a more fundamental way.

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Denis Mair 09 January 2020

I wrote this poem in 2004. Since then I have continued my delvings into the wellsprings of life. I invite you to read them: 1) PALACE OF WATER; 2) IN THE FOAM; 3) MOLECULAR BEGINNINGS; 4) INVOCATION TO KUN THE RECEPTIVE; 5) THE PREMISE OF BEAUTY.

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Savita Tyagi 27 August 2019

Not a science person so leaving the facts aside, there is an Intelligence that extends itself to everything and capable of replenishing itself according to the designs it creates and destroys.....and leaves us to wonder and wonder.....brilliant poem Denis, one that catches and keeps the the attention like a crossword puzzle!

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Jane Campion 17 July 2019

No one knows why. This poem confirms life's complexity in all forms. It also confirms how unique we are from others. There will never be another like each individual. Intelligence is fluid and not definable. The mind with its electrical chemical nature changes in microseconds. It is never the same at any point of time. How could it be defined? I think the second half of the poem confuses the first. Two poems?

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Denis Mair 19 July 2019

That is a valid critique. I admit that the two halves are mismatched, but I yoked them together, because I'm not content to leave the facts of biology naked. They seem to be waiting... to be brought into a lyrical dance, or a symbolic structure.

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Adeeb Alfateh 27 June 2019

soup of life thrilling word from DNA measure up from the 6ft it mystic greet venturous pathos of melancholic........................................................................../// great 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Prabir Gayen 31 December 2018

Dear danis Mair..very exquisite poem with minute details....thanks...///

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Hans Vr 07 October 2018

I loved to read this wonderful eye-opener. So true, Denis, DNA is not intelligent. It is merely a code. The matrix, the wonderfully intelligent cosmos, the director of all processes, something our human mind may not be capable of understanding. Let us tune in, into that wonderful power of the universe, that versatile, endlessly creative and 'kind' Universe

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Denis Mair 07 October 2018

You read with an understanding eye. That is exactly the kind of thing I want to get at.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 18 September 2018

TWO: The writer of this comment and compliment is not intelligent, but the one who reads this and understands the true perspectives....A 10++++++++++ for the voting/rating. Denis, you get the greetings from my genius bro in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Denis Mair 18 September 2018

I am curious, Sylvia. What kind of work does your brother do? What area of biology is he delving into? // Recently I have been enjoying books that peer into life's origins. I am interested in why there are two sexes in the plant and animal kingdoms. Why is so much beauty woven into the fabric of life?

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Denis Mair 18 September 2018

I love books like THE RED QUEEN by Matt Ridley, NATURE'S DESTINY by Michael Denton, and THE VITAL QUESTION by Nick Lane. I am not knowledgeable enough to read highly technical books, but if your brother recommends something, maybe I'll have a look.

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