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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"And what about a woman? Her way of sending a person spinning"
"Behind the rigid fact there is a dance which is never confined to this moment."
Boy, this is one heck of a lot of information for me. Mind boggling.
This poem held me, the idea is brilliant! There are so many unanswered questions in life.
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
A wonderful write about the miracle of just being in the living cosmic ocean.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
soup of life thrilling word from DNA measure up from the 6ft it mystic greet venturous pathos of melancholic........................................................................../// great 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dear danis Mair..very exquisite poem with minute details....thanks...///
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
You read with an understanding eye. That is exactly the kind of thing I want to get at.
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.
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?
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.
I love this poem.thank you for this piece