Genesis: Creation Sonnets duo.
Imagining six sparkling days of creation
was Wisdom-inspired, a glorious allegory.
Sage scribes enshrined a firmament story
in the lore of The One God’s chosen nation.
Act two, played out in an exquisite garden,
has beauty and hubris astutely portrayed,
as the human-ness that many display,
showed us flawed; so in dire need of pardon.
The authors of these wise-woven tales
drew them out so the thoughtful might comprehend
the ways of a God, whose great love prevails
from Earth’s first light to its ultimate end:
deep richness revered for thousands of years,
but as knowledge advanced, new dimensions appeared.
Research into fourteen billion years
has progressed very fast in the not-long past;
as complex technologies supplement glass,
and the boundaries of the vast cosmos appear
to be deeper and further and longer in turn,
than optical lenses could ever define.
With background radiation implying space- time
began with a ‘big bang’: now widely affirmed.
Thus Earth’s been removed from its pivotal place
by stages, built up on precise observations,
to the arms of a galaxy, spinning in space,
round a star that’s been formed by re-aggregation:
Day by day, knowledge grows, finding more about ‘How?’
but the ‘Why?’ remains wisdom those ‘sparkling days’ showed.
Prof. Tom McLeish, FRS. Author: 'Faith and Wisdom in Science' and 'The Poetry and Music of Science’ said of this duet of Sonnets ‘Wonderful'
Prof. Tom McLeish, FRS. Author: 'Faith and Wisdom in Science' and 'The Poetry and Music of Science’ said of this duet of Sonnets ‘Wonderful'
