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| Meal Beach, Burra Isles, Shetland by Robin Gosnall |
It was here,
long ago in time before,
Earth wept a sea of salty tears
and from within
this briny broth, a genesis,
and life began, emerged,
crept inquisitively upon the shore;
primitive,
it evolved became mankind
diminutive
Anna :o]
it evolved became mankind
diminutive
Anna :o]
Also entered at dVerse Open Link Night - hosted by the lovely Claudia.
(Would love to share a cup of tea Claudia!)
33 comments:
if that was how time began, i would like to have been there to watch the first crawl out the sludge....if nothing else you have to imagine the tide have been here forever...
Hi Anna .. the seas churned and life evolved ... this is a wonderful view of early life and early man ...
Loved it - thanks - Hilary
Hi Anna, this was wonderful. I love the sharp images telling the story. It works wonderfully with the prompt. What a cool subject for your poem.
Do you think Earth cried because she knew how mankind would turn out? This is thoughtful and elegant Anna - well done you!
The mind boggles, 250 billion years. Whoa. They recently found fossils of massive sea monsters in outback queensland , a little place called Eronmanga , shes old hey ?
Really enjoyed this take on the prompt. And the quiet, concise way you told the story.
Lovely.
=)
interesting! I wish I had been there to watch it :)
Wow ... what a lovely story !!!
A thoughtful poem!
salty tears...
Think of all the life that has come and gone! Nice.
Wish I'd been there!
Great minds think alike. I just used "briny breath" for another poem that used ocean imagery. Not the one on my blog, but one I submitted to a magazine.
I like your take, taking us back to the beginning.
I specially like this:
Earth wept a sea of salty tears
Wishing you happy day ~
Interesting poem.This means we are all part fish:)
Evolution - I was just commenting on Kutamun's - there are chapters in old Malay legends that refer to life under the sea...
The Malay Annals is based on manuscripts written over 500 years ago - a fusion of historical fact and mythology over a millennia.
Will we ever know...
I love this story of Genesis story.. beautiful.
A fun evolutionary biology poem -- great way to make science more palatable to some folks, I'd imagine. We should build a collection of such things -- "Science Inspired Poetry"!
New evidence points a comet tails as the breeding ground of the molecules needed for life on this planet. Life may have come from outside in a sense -- it just landed in the sea? Fun stuff -- thanks for a poem to get me thinking.
Love this and what a gorgeous photo!
Quite a beautiful telling of the story of evolution/creation. I especially love the line about earth weeping salty tears. Deep sigh.
A beautiful evolution here Ana!....Lovely!
The image of earth weeping is just beautiful...
love how you capture the magic...and oh it would be lovely to share a cup of tea with you...smiles
Now this is a clever take on the prompt. You drew a perfect picture of the beginning of life. I really like it.
Lovely way of presenting the theory of evolution...
Absolutely perfect!
a highly evolved peace :)
Thank you for your kind and welcome comments folks.
Brian ~ it is a view of how life began my friend. The Universe continues to evolve and we can observe this on our own planet and in our own galaxy – and parts of it die a natural death – as in the future will our planet – maybe sooner than expected with mans influence… (Man is so small in the scheme of things – but the impact of his presence on this world of ours – so unbelievably large…)
Have the tides always been here? No. Interesting piece here in which the author agrees that science and religion do share common ‘beliefs’ - even if differently presented…
And of course (in human evolution) there is Neanderthal man to mess up the Adam and Eve beginnings…
Other Mary ~ I do think Earth wept for this very reason…
Kutamun ~ the mind boggles indeed (at the history of evolution). I found a fossil forever printed in limestone at Berwick many years ago when holiday there with my family. Estimates are that it is 330 million years old!
Cressida ~ perhaps we are! Please see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15591343
and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2004&news_id=346
Sabio ~ I had read this too (subscribe to PhysOrg) and googled further. ‘Creation’ is fascinating stuff and I don’t know the answer. Where is the beginning of the beginning? How can we explain it? Religion – who made God? Science – where did the ‘Big Bang’ gasses come from? Oh – I just love it!
Anna :o]
Magical! Love this -- a superb response to the prompt.
What, you’re not a believer in intelligent design?
Great treatment of the prompt, and a very good poem.
short.. but makes one think...
well, we never know how it all began :P maybe...
Thanks for your welcome comments Dave, Friko and deeps.
Friko - No, I don't believe in intelligent design for if this were so, surely birth defects and disease shows a lack of intelligence...?
Anna o]
I like the oceanic images of life.
beginnings..
we always wonder how it all started.. we have so many theories and often we find them all fascinating..
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