E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

I stare, stare into the flames. Mesmerized. I hear the sound of creation. The snap, crackle, pop of creation. I see embers flying like burning stars spinning in infinity. I see time, present and past, whil... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The hands spin. Every day. Day after day they spin. Relentless. Morning. Noon. Night. Relentless. Planet spins. Relentlessly it spins. Time spinning, fritting it all away. Can’t be stopped. Can’t hold... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It awakes. Organizing, arranging. Building. Moving evolving. Biology swarming creating. Slowly connects. Components created, improved replaced. Connection. Globally connections. Synaptic network evolves. Denser ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

The hands spin. Every day. Day after day they spin. Relentless. Morning. Noon. Night. Relentless. Planet spins. Relentlessly it spins. Time spinning, fritting it all away. Can’t be stopped. Can’t hold... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I see them, clear as day. Smiling. Laughing. Crying. Life etched on their being! As they were. I see them as the were, so many years ago. So many lives embedded on my mind. There, they still live. Slipping away... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Information, data flowing. Flowing through my being. Invisible hands working my mind, Kneading like clay. Shaping, forming what I think. Formatting how I think. Information invasion, out to capture terrain, te... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time to go. Time is short. A new home awaits. The voyage will be long. Very long. Longer than life. Longer than many many lives. No choice. System failing, star is failing. Solar system failing. No choice! New ho... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Immense! In all aspects immense. Immense without limits. Never ending creation. Creation of possibilities. All possible iterations realized. Creation complex beyond understanding. Beyond the scope of most. Once i... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Gazing. Gazing into the night sky, as billions have done before. Looking into infinity. Contemplating existence, reality. Realizing all on this mote we live, confined. Like a prison, confined. A prison of though... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Sum of everything. View of things, each unique. Each different. Incomplete. Confined by experience. Confined by the senses. Each different. Within limits each infinite, infinite in possibility. Infinite potential ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Old ways. Old ways of thinking. Primitive ways. Thinking derived out of fear, ignorance. Still being believed. A new age, with new ideas, new realities, sweeping it all away. All away In a flash of enlightenment.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Is there a God? Big question! I do not know. No one knows. I do know, however, there is a creator. I look around, what do I see? I see things, created things. I see created things. A creator does not ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

4 AM Tough time. Dark time. Ghost haunting. Haunting the recesses the private places. Places where thoughts are born. Mistakes magnified, circling overhead. Regrets gnawing. Gnawing at the soul. The silent time.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Good and evil resides in us all. Both look out our eyes. Both course through our veins. The spectrum of us is a score played out in our hearts and in our minds. Evil and good are in opposition, spread out on a s... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We have been taught. We have been programed. The veil grows thicker over our eyes. Our senses are limited. We see very little. Remove the veil. Think past what you were taught. Break the cocoon you’ve been ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time, it moves. It moves into nothing. Nothing at all. Tomorrow is nothing. Can’t touch it, smell it, or see it. Tomorrow’s just a concept, not tangible. Time, once past leaves vapor, ghosts ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Where are they? All those who never were. All those never born. Many reasons. War. Millions killed. Millions more never born. Whole lines of family future, poof. Generation after generation, poof. Never to be... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

It’s all baked, baked into the equation. Human civilization genetically organized. Organized as prescribed in DNA. DNA code. The code that controls who, what we are, what we do. Procreation, self pres... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Time, one big orb. Past. Present. Future. all touch all connect passing information around. As decisions occur, new future outcomes are created. A new future you is born. Information of the new future you, your fut... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

They came from within. Predetermined embryos, coded, inserted, born. Grew to the world they now inhabit. Learning at the granular level. Observed, information stored for future study. Years pass, totally Integrated... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Quantum mix, mist, cloud. Undulations of uncertainty. Information. Instantly projecting. Underpinning classical spacetime. Different dimension, level. Different laws. Cloud mechanics. Different rules. Information flo... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Contemplations. Inside and outside. Here to there. Contemplation. Outside world. What’s seen. Observed. Nature of things. Why things are? Much to mull. Yet finite. Inside world. Within the mind. Connected, yet ap... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Locked in time. Prisoners. Prisoners each to their own epoch. Choice. No choice. Conform, live as the time dictates. No choice. Look at their faces! Dealing. Dealing best they can with what’s been handed. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Is what we do all there is? Do we create the universe in our minds? Are our ways the only ways? Are the ways of this world the only ways of sentient existence? Are we the crucible for future Univer... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

A world beyond. Dreamland unbounded. A vision of grander vistas. Vistas unshackled by the senses. Senses that limit our vision, our reach. The senses tell us this is all there is. Five senses dictates! Dictate... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Look into their eyes. Eager, wanting to know. Wanting to know what they got themselves into. Fresh faces, years before the first wrinkle. Blank slates hanging on our every word. Each time, a clean slate ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

I see a place with starless skies. I see a dark smooth world endlessly afloat in the black, its star long since blinked out. Covered with small closely spaced geodesic domes. Geodesic domes all interconnected, al... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Immersed in a medium. As figures in a painting. Limited in nature. Rules must be followed. Like an aquarium or a terrarium. Movement limited. Finite in nature. The medium inhabited, fluid. The medium four D... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

See the Mona Lisa, now reverse the flow. Her image fading away. In flows through the brush then straight to the arm, past neural pathways, beaming back to the brain. Chemicals flow, electricity sparks. Poof, t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Horizon. History, past to present. Archaic to modernity. Upside down. Growth, exponential. Knowledge compounding. Technology circling the globe. Gazing, viewing the beginning. Revelations daily. Building on yes... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

How it changes as time flows on. All that we know we discover we don’t. More knowledge begets less understanding. I dance on a precipice. The edge of knowledge knowing I’ll never reall... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Gazing out into space, into infinity. I wander, my mind wanders. I see vistas. New, different vistas to explore. Where have I been? Where will I go? Light fades. Existence vaporizers, leaving this realm for the ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Deep into the bowels of existence I look. Deep into time. Deep into substance. Deep into reality I stare. Others stare back. Others looking. Throughout time. Others looking for answers. Answers into why. Why is t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Free will an illusion. Free, limited only. Programmed to a path, course of actions predetermined! Endless choices, genetically constrained. Aggressive by nature, or timid be. Anything in between. Choices constr... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

We are animals. Civilization, thousands of years in the making. The animal, millions of years in the making. Animal instincts etched into each cell of our being. Survival, procreation, deeply embedded into our s... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Back in time. Staring back they are. Wondering about the Ancients they do. Wondering about those who came before. Deep history exploring. Digital archeology, searching. Searching for the Genesis planet. Ancestor ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

In our faces. Constantly, in our faces. Glowing screens. Pumping, pumping out information constant Information. Inundating, swamping the mind. Washing over, coursing through. Minds smoothing, ideas blending. Minds... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Frequency. Awash in frequencies. Sounds of creation all around. Everywhere. Every time. Cosmic music. Music of the celestial spheres. Resonating. Planets. Stars. Background vibrations. Cosmic ripples. Voices, fl... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Misty visions. Visions of what might have been. Foggy horizons, futures that will never be. Visions of people that might have been, that I’ll never meet. Places that I’ll never see. Potentiality that... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Chastened by expectations. Seasoned by trial. All journeys begin the same. Roads diverge, yet all end at the same destination. Experiences vary, stories differ. But the results ... Read more