This Week’s Poem
3rd May
I wrote this one to help raise money to fight Meningitis
Howard’s Marathon
Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge left behind,
Parishioners still in his memory,
Their images linger here, to remind
Him of support from the church family.
His preparation has been quite thorough;
He’s done hundreds of miles in practice runs;
But now’s not yesterday or tomorrow,
Today it’s one of London’s Marathons.
As over fifty thousand run the race,
The waiting seems like an eternity,
But soon he jogs within his chosen pace,
Selecting times for his pre-destiny.
The aim, beyond the end-now-in-sight, is
Raising more cash to fight Meningitis.
Howard has so far raised over £2,000 following his charity run. Any wishing to make contributions could do so through this site.
The Sequence can be downloaded from "Peter's Latest Sequences"
15 Jan 2008
In The Image of Love
In the beginning there was nowt at all,
Not even owt for t’Spirit to move on;
But then God decided summut should fall
Into His vacuum and so this was done..
All the sea and land stuff came out of Light;
Equations could show how much was needed;
But life on our Earth was still out of sight
Till this light energised the brew it fed.
And so we evolved from initial slime,
To find God in His Garden of Eden.
But we get fed up with just passing time
As our atoms flow for three score and ten.
So what’s this creation of man made of?
God made us all in the image of Love.
In October 2007 I had just been reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Those who know me well will maybe understand why I found most of the book predictable and boring, but toward the end there were some excellent ideas: he quotes from another book by Steve Grand: "Creation: Life and How to Make It"
"Steve Grand invites his reader to think ....
... of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you/ How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place .... Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important."
I was impressed by thoughts expressed here so I ended up spending an hour or so today writing the following sonnet:
Your Star
"I think therefore I am"; a quotation
From Descartes in the sixteenth century;
Philosophies from his generation
Have now already almost ceased to be.
We recognize the atoms which made us,
When we played around as little children,
Have all been gradually replaced and thus
We’re not now the same stuff that formed us then.
If we are more than these mobile millions
Space waves continue through their replacement
If faith, hope and love are more than bygones
New thoughts evolve from those which Descartes meant.
To begin to imagine who you are,
Know you’re from God, not just part of your star.
Posted: April 5th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 1
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Comment from Roger
Time: November 29, 2007, 12:20 pm
<p>I enjoyed the poem, peter, and l;ook forward (or not) to seeing the related sequence. How about calling it “The Dawkins’ Delusion”</p>
Thanks Roger.
I think there is already a book called “The Dawkins Delusion”. I found Dawkins’ book exceptionally boring - all that repetative stuff about Darwen, as if the majority of folk did not already give this their serious attention! But towards the end the book did get a bit more interesting.
The Sequences is currently in preparation (and currently called “Your Star” - I had no images so I start from scratch - but I frequesntly try and use images I already have - I mean by that select from the half-million.
I am about half way choosing and programing, so I will put something on this site by about Christmas time, with a bit of luck and a reasonably quiet Christmas.
11 Decemeber: The Sequence is now on site for 14 days; it is called “Your Star”.
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