E.J. Waling

poem by E.J. Waling

Important little things. Scurrying. Scurrying around. Acting out. Delusions of grandeur. Deadly serious. Jockeying for position. Stepping over, on. Win at all costs. Ends justifies the means. Self important l... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Power and control. Beware. The few controlling the many. Narratives, influencing controlling mechanisms. Spinning up stories, influencing minds. Controlling worlds. Simple narratives controlling millions. Banners ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Infinite parallel realities. Proof. Humanity. Generation after generation. Each ancestor all. All had to meet who they met. All had to couple when they coupled. One egg millions of sperm, each a different outco... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Blinking in. Blinking out. Brief flash of existence. Infinite scales abound. Time and space. Always was. Always will be. Human scale negligible. Firefly blink. Here today gone tomorrow. Purpose? Point? None ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Power. Weakness. Seductive force. Seductive control. Overwhelming lust. Lust for control lust for power. Power at all costs. The ends justify the means. Blinding. Preys on weak minds. Weak souls. Easily c... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Owned. Unaware. Information! Information flowing. Grabbing. Holding attention. Shifting perceptions. Warping attitudes. Mind control, global mind shaping. Unaware! Technology holding, grabbing control, causin... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Blue Marble. Terrarium! A terrarium really. That’s all it is. Around only void. Birth place. Consciousness, conduit. Great and small, all the same. From a distance all the same. Blue Marble. Compend... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Great or not. Those who were once, are no more. Firefly blink. Deep woods firefly flash. Most unnoticed, nothing left behind. Majesty and grandeur, mere dust in the breeze. Self important, indulgence. Self impor... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Grand scheme. Grand truth. Grand wisdom. What’s known? Broad proclamations. Knowledge spouters. Blurry thoughts. False wisdom. False visions abound. Truth sayers. Experts all! Experts, charlatans laying down ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Technology erasing, folding, shaping. Viewpoints created, canceled. Heads in the cloud. Losing perspective. Fading away. Tech zombies. Constant influence attached to the face. The soul. Views erased, dictated, f... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Vortices. Life. Existence. Energy vortex. All, vibrations, fluctu­ations. Oscillating in a field. Field of never ending vibrations, energy. Base level quantum foam phasing in and out of realities. Dancing, pu... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Realms within realms. Within realms. Cascading, flowing realities. Never ending. Reality begets reality. Layered, fractals. Above, below, sided by side. Each a cosmos unto itself. Infinite multi realms. Fin... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

All. All human endeavor. Millions of years in the making. All who ever lived. Great works of art, literature, music. All conquerors, great and small. All the great minds. All known intellect. All religions. All wh... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

“Always was, always will be.” Universe within multiverse. Multiverse within infinity. Never ending cycle. Universes begetting universes. Being born, fading away. Infinities begetting infinites. Never en... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Understanding. Knowledge. The scale. Knowledge scale. Zero to infinite. Knowledge. Humanities boat barely leaving the dock. In relative terms, scarcely farther along than a salamander. Yet humanity ponders, asking... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Emergence. Strange brew. Spinning. Mixing. Heating. Eons in the making. From plasma to gas, then stars, elements, dirt then life. Much more In between. Code book outlines. Stew in the pot. Recipe laid down long... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Uncertainty! Long ago. Infinite time. Instructions loaded. Yet, uncertainty reigned. Undulating, probabilities. Base level possibility. Probability. All arose from mere probability. Never ending nothingness. Fluctuat... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Designed we’ve been. Emerged from the goo. Created for one purpose. One job. The reason for existence? Create the replacement. Provided with enough processing power for that... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Grid. Systems in place. Circling the globe. Overhead. Underneath. All around. Grip tightens. Mind grabbing, strangling the soul. Free will denied. Canceled. The grid reaches. Reaches into the mind. Asimov’... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Synergy. Interactions. Touches. Cross currents. Stuff of change. Lubricant of evolution. Driving force moving forward. Towards the future. Interactions, change engines synergy creating. Touches. Accelerat... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Clay. Clay People. Malleable. Time/location sculpts. Shapes. Forms. Dictates. Anyone, anything. Easily manipulated, controlled. Time/location, determines. Determines what we be. Who we are! Hunter/gatherer. Greek... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Strangeness. Look. Look around. What the hell. What’s going on? Accepting what’s seen, what’s said. Flicker of existence. Firefly flash. What’s the point? Screaming headlong. Coming t... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Packaging. What’s outside. Wrapping, covering, hiding. Packaging. Different sizes, shapes, colors. Some shiny Some dull. Some simple. Some complex. No two alike. Packaging irrelevant covering. Shielding wh... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Wonderment. What’s going on? Why anything? Limited capabilities. What’s the point? Why bother? Wonderment. Wonderment with the unknowns. All around infinite unknowns. Looking out. Reaching up. Infini... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

God no God! Battle rages. Some say yes. Some say no. What’s the point? Who cares? No one has proof, no proof whatsoever. No proof either way. “Faith”! Faith is a weasel word. What’s said w... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Moving through. Gases aggregate. Gravity squeezes. Burning, fusion, elements form. Thrown to space coalescing, planets. Elements combine chemistry to biology. Genesis. Life evolves, genesis intelligence. Growing,... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Choreographed. Designed. System in place. Rules to follow. Accepting the stage. Parts to be played. Parameters, lanes to be observed, traversed. Designated. Substrate, maze engineered. Apparitions injected, game b... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Experiences, hands that mold. Crafting a life. Crafting being. Years go by. Shape and form change. Altered. Experience molds reality. Alters perceptions. Changes the being. Year after year the project continues. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Subtle. Alterations. Synaptic tinkering. Through the eyes soaking the mind. Hypnotic. Subtlety, incrementally pushing the envelope. What’s now normal, not so much not long ago. Slow alteration, slight reprog... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Experiences, hands that mold. Crafting a life. Crafting being. Years go by. Shape and form change. Altered. Experience molds reality. Alters perceptions. Changes the being. Year after year the project continues. ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Small. Unassuming. Seed planted. Sprouting. Reaching spreading slowly, hesitantly. Background development. Underground. Slowing surfacing. Moving out from under. Mainstream. Spreading growing. Faster now. Interconnec... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Endless expanse. Rolling swells. Depths unplumbed. Uncharted. Totally uncharted. Trolling for understanding. Underneath, a level below. New worlds to explore to conquer. Hypnotic suggestions. Hypnotic consciousness.... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Doors. Room full. Countless. Everywhere doors. Looking deciding. Each a different future. Each a different universe. Each a different life. One after another. Passing through... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Heaven. Hell. No such places. No such constructs. Save in the mind of man Concepts. Earthly concepts. Human concepts. Heaven. Hell. Human constructs. Good. Evil. Human symptoms. Human mirrored image of thi... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Choreographed. Designed. System in place. Rules to follow. Accepting. the stage. Parts to be played. Parameters, lanes to be observed, traversed. Designated. Substrate, maze engineered. Apparitions injected, game ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Dynamic! Animal. Civilized. Instinct driven, controlled. Hormones influencing. Intellectual. Learning. Consciousness driven. Animal growling. Dynamic situation. Modernity struggling. Teetering on the edge! Past ve... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Grumpy Old Men. Always wondered. Grumpy old men. Where do they come from? Why do they exist? What made them so grumpy? When young, everything was a promise. Everything was possible. No limitations. Oysters on the ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Concrete Jungle Animals abound. Wild kingdom. Survival. Fighting for survival. Laws of the jungle, embedded. Embedded within every fiber of being. Savage being. Coded for survival. Instincts evolved, battling to su... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Reflection of the unknowable. Grappling. Grappling with the unseen. Limited. Contemplating with finite capabilities. Finite resources. How to make sense? Schools of thought. Competing schools of thought. Limited ... Read more

poem by E.J. Waling

Once. They were here. Came before. Smiles, tears, laughter. Echos faint echos throughout. Wafting in time and space. Once was, their sounds never die. Still here, mellowed filling quintessence. Salty soil. Seasoned... Read more