Evolution

[NobodyNothing]

For me, this is a many-read poem, my mind needing/wanting to unpack all the cleverness in its inventiveness.

But my very first impression of it was simply how sheerly entertaining it was to me (that's a compliment, I assure you). These lines made me especially chuckle and smile:

Far suns from history illume us, a trillion miles away they lie,
then caught in orbs of human humour; a photon dies, a star is born.

Tall trees fall in silent places, distant yet by theory near.

Evolution grows the man to morph and model each new trait ;
anthropomorphic genes hang from us, pinned like medals to our chest.

Anyway...me like.

Me like you liking. Any bits you no like?
Best,
tectak

Nothing that I don't like, as in *irk*. Honestly, need more time to unpack.

My mind did hitch a tiny bit at illume, but probably because I am so used to either the word illumine or illuminate in such a case. I had to pause and figure out how it wanted to be rhythmically read there, how was illume pronounced, and was history pronounced as his-tor-e or his-tre.

I mean, we're talking hair-split here.

And such things can be quirky/funny in this way. Even when I finish one of my own poems, it's like I have to learn how to read it, how it wants to be read. This is usually the case from being so focused on the minutias of the poem that when I'm FINALLY done the poem as a whole is somewhat of a stranger to me.

Does that ever happen to you? lol