Yesterday, 06:35 PM
This is a very interesting set of images. I'm particularly impressed by that in the first four lines (we're likely to be seen as a dark age in the future once all the electrical charges representing zeros and ones have decayed).
Overall the poem reminds me of the story of the man on his roof in a flood who's offered in turn a ladder, a boat and a helicopter lift but refuses them all in turn becuase God wil provide. Then God tells him as he drowns that he tried to provide, three times. Did you know this story before you wrote the poem?
However I'm not clear about the significance of the blank lines, particularly the second one. I've always considered blank lines to be stanza breaks (equivalent to paragraphs in prose), so the first seems reasonable if optional, but the second confuses me as it occurs in the middle of a sentence. Maybe I've misunderstood though.
(Please forgive any typos - I have arthritis in my fingers).
Overall the poem reminds me of the story of the man on his roof in a flood who's offered in turn a ladder, a boat and a helicopter lift but refuses them all in turn becuase God wil provide. Then God tells him as he drowns that he tried to provide, three times. Did you know this story before you wrote the poem?
However I'm not clear about the significance of the blank lines, particularly the second one. I've always considered blank lines to be stanza breaks (equivalent to paragraphs in prose), so the first seems reasonable if optional, but the second confuses me as it occurs in the middle of a sentence. Maybe I've misunderstood though.
(Please forgive any typos - I have arthritis in my fingers).