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Derrick Jones Aug 2018
The only constant is change
So evolution produced the brain
No matter what nature may bring
How fearsome, how clever, how strange
Man has the tool to play the game
To adapt, to upgrade, to remain
So the human is built to survive
But what does it mean to thrive?
The weight of it boggles the mind
When one contemplates being alive
And we long for the days of simplicity
That we left so far behind
So let’s use this miracle of plasticity
To channel our neural electricity
And maybe one day we will find
A way to hit rewind
And evolve toward a goal we agree
Can actually make us happy
Why should we let Evolution run the game?
This is a new page.
Empty;Deep Love and woes fill;
The former is me?
Fresh start same games but different play that is the sentiment don't want to say anymore
Paul Butters Jul 2018
Life clings on
In deserts, ice sheets and hot acid pools.
Those selfish genes persist:
Batons in a Marathon relay race.
Generation follows generation.
Clone adds to clone.

So life spreads:
The mightiest empire,
Covering all the globe.
A world full of living wonders.
All manner of plants, insects and animals.
Oceans teeming with fish.
From tropical paradise
To awesome glaciers.

We must be mindful
Of this glorious beauty.
Mother Nature reigns supreme.
Sing and rejoice,
Party hard
And put aside
The awful truth -
That in the end
Everyone dies.

Paul Butters

© PB 26\7\2018.
A thought I cannot escape.
Aa Harvey Jul 2018
Monkey In A Tree


I am a monkey sat way up in a tree,

Looking down on humanity.

You wish you could climb up here and be as high as me;

But you have evolved so much, you’ve begun to decrease.


(C)2011 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
Johnny Noiπ Jul 2018
Dinosaurs are a    |    diverse group of reptiles
        of the clade Dinosauria.
They first appeared during the Triassic period,
     between 243 and 233.23 million years ago,
although the exact origin and timing                                of the evolution
of dinosaurs is the (      |        |     |         ) subject of active research  . | . | .
They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates
    after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201
million years ago; their dominance continued
through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Reverse genetic             engineering and the fossil record
both demonstrate             that birds are modern feathered
dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods
during the late Jurassic Period.       As such, birds
were the only dinosaur lineage to survive [                  ], (            )
the       Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
                        event 66 million years ago.
Dinosaurs can therefore be divided (                )
into avian dinosaurs, or birds; and non-avian dinosaurs,
which are all dinosaurs other than birds. [              ], [          ];
Children love  dinosaurs    as is well known;
Pre-mammalian                     life flourishing
in a global garden of jungles & ice;      
why don't children idolize
                  the Great Heroes who shaped the (         lost ancient
        world stone by stone;
what do dinosaurs lead              to?   it's discovered poets who founded knowledge itself )
(                       ) they were not so fearsome  
as once thought; - clumsy, slow;
         birds flying around;      where did these creatures come from -
where did                the first human
                     woman emerge - more importantly - (  ) how?
roxanne Jun 2018
A man born without wings into the ashes of a forest
dead leaves and a valley of butterflies
Bleached to be ethicless
effortless as it is
To go without pursuit of question

A mind of matter
Wherein death lies one doesn't know
You're feeling all these expectancies
all these dependencies
Energy of yours, unhinged

The screens written
with the bastardisation of simple truths
Rhythmic as a creature
as spoken wavelength navigating
A wondering memory standing in front of the collectives

Transcendence above the impermanence
A palace on the grounds among us, but separated
dangerous minds of a phenomenon, in sequencing
Unceasing in divinity and untempered
by the indignation of his companions

Free to be, among the meadows of ourselves.
A tribute to X. My prince, a brother, a spirit gone to the wind but never departed from the atmosphere he breathed for us.
Johnny Noiπ Jun 2018
of all mammals        the human male
is among the few that has no
bone in the *****;       the coccyx
still functions as a vestigial         tail;

there are active parts of the brain
for which doctors  &    biologists
can find no known function;    when

women evolved the *******,    whose
sole purpose is to activate the libido;  
men lost the bone in their *****
thus ending their perpetual hard-ons
BMG Jun 2018
My scars tell a story
Of the person that existed before you
Before the person I am now
They explain how I become
Who I am today
Reminders of my past

I may not talk about them
That doesn’t mean
I am ashamed of them
I may not explain why
That doesn’t mean
I don’t remember each time

I use to be someone
That needed each scar
I use to be someone
That couldn’t fight back
Fragile little girls grow up
Forces to be reckoned with

Just because I carry my past
For you to see
On my arms
On my thighs
Doesn’t mean
you have a right to my story
Does not mean you know
Where I have been

You see a faded delicate red line
You can’t see it still alive within me
I use to rely on those sharp edges
Rely on the pain it brought me
I still rely on sharp edges
Now they exist within me
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