A Cosmic Labyrinth Part 5 (Country Path & Communications Technologies)

This is the fifth part of a composite poem which charts various pathways each of which ends at a resting place which gives the traveller an opportunity to pause and gain a tiny insight into one of the sciences or technologies that shape our lives today. The havens are, therefore, transitory themselves as every science is moving too fast for all but the most dedicated to fully comprehend. At the end of this section is a guide to the previously published parts and the full version. I hope some of what is written will resonate with your own experience.

A Country Path

I am delighted now to brief, bestride

a broad grassed country trail.

Wild flowers abound, some forehead high

others so minute, they almost fail

to be observed as I tread keenly on:

revelling in a balmy summer sun

which draws out butterflies, brief here, then gone;

provokes aromas in a hedgerow, gunned

by gorse, aiming its seeds far beyond

the confines of the bank on which it grows,

to claim new territory for its kin,

in hope that no-one either ploughs or sows

in that new colony: a hope so slim,

for to humans, land-yielding oft is woe.

All about me, beauty prevails.

As I imbibe this flood of glory,

I wonder at its provenance.

Evolution makes so much sense

Yet seemingly cannot advance

the totality of this magnificent story.

The Hub of Communications Technologies

Relentlessness appears to rule in this roost,

words, tunes, images set to fly

invisibly and with increasing rapidity

from A, B, C, to G, H, I

and well beyond.

Potentially the whole world echoing

vibrating to the sound of massive viral drum

that demands, titillates,

or simply provokes curiosity

and maybe wastes time –

or renders one, upon an instant dumb.

Planned Time Out, perhaps a lesson to be learned

in this particular school,

to be a restorative from the tempestuous wave-forms

of the global messaging pool.

I need to learn, I need to rest,

But I am beckoned on, I cannot stay.

You will find all five parts of A Cosmic Labyrinth so far published  here
OR read a part at a time For Part 2 - Deep Oceanography Click here
For Part 3 - Climatology Click here
For Part 4 - Wormhole and Astrophysics Click here
Part 1 (Nanotechnology) is now only available at the beginning of the full entry, for which, click here

Other poems, meditations and songs with a SCIENCE & FAITH theme can be accessed HERE