I recently posted to a poem review forum My February 2013 written poem
on temporal paradoxes , alternative
Earths and
theories about time in modern physics
see below but was surprised that every reader comment had confused
the subject matter with it
being yet another of my Greek
mythology epics.
I know my poetry has
been referred to as having "hidden meaning, double meaning and downright unknown confusing meaning"
but thus time my intended meaning escaped the readers
time and the
triumph of reversibility
What is history
straight pillars
broken pillars
talk over coffee in a cracked galaxy
or it happened in an
avenue of era statues
finding names for bases
and fall apart greening strangers
only one monument remains
a same cube Delian throne scribed with dart letters of gold
" Time And The Triumph Of Reversibility "
no one was here
their grandfathers were never born and that was the paradox
pennies in a tide
well
coins from dead mans eyes
brass cent of lost causes and if emperors
metals from the city
of Sakria
time and the triumph of reversibility mark
littler 2013
comments 1-3 that miss
my point completely
"A short but very well written piece based on the Greek
war, the imagery you have interwoven in this makes one want to delve more in to
this history, which was personally never and interest of mine, but I certainly
enjoyed the reading of this and particularly the last stanza...Truly a great
piece of work"
"The best piece I have read from you, mark.
Great epic tale full of mystique and mammoth
characters"
"I'm not so clued up on mythology, so some of the
references may have escaped me, but I think the overarching theme seems to be
more universal and timeless, and I couldn't help but be reminded of the old
adage about history being written by the winners of wars."
The mythic direction of these fair honest critical reader comments must have picked upon Delian not from Delos
or any remotely Greek it
is the famous Delian
cube problem an exercise
in mathematical doubling
the pennies .... coins....
and brass cent
of lost causes and if emperors
are symbolic not of Charon
boats but of other alternative
existences appearing as the new reality as our
previous real Time and past real history
changes due to a single temporal paradox
note "only one monument remains..... and no
one was here ........ PARADOX of grandfathers never born
"straight
pillars broken pillars" well
that is from Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles when Tomas
meets the long dead Martian who sees
the ruins of dead Martian cities
as they are in his
time
my symbolism is
that what we see is simultaneously broken and straight pillars
"Sakria" and "Laxaria" are not Mycenaean
towns but derive from
Charles Fort and one of his newspaper
cuttings about a man suddenly appearing out of nowhere in
pre war Europe
wearing a strange costume and
talking an unknown language claiming to be from "Laxaria a
city in the country of Sakria" i
changed them around as it sounds better to symbolise
that they are now and have always been post temporal paradox
our own Nations and our
only reality.
I recently
posted "A Pirates life" ( see blog 1st August) to
the same poem review site
expect it will remind my traditional readers
of "Telemachus on the island
of Apollohanes"
Now know why I scrapped the July 2013 weighty epics "Argo,
Ariadne, Medea" and "Venus
ridiculed at the court of Amor"
My latest poem " Atom
Spider versus Radio Killer Space
Mystery" is inspired by Golden Age
Comic Books so even in that unintentionally the Super Heroes may be taken as
Greek ones
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