5.1.24

OUR SACRAMENT

 
The following lyrics are to be sung to the tune of  'O, Holy Night'
(adaptation by shaun lawton)




O holy night, our Star is brightly shining
It gleams above us all for what it's worth
Long may its sensors our thoughts be divining
'til we grow up since the day of our birth
Installing hope so that the world rejoices
For tomorrow another day is born
Close your eyes and listen to the voices
O sight divine, our crown that we have worn
Our night, our only night, long may you shine

Guided by AI to enhance our dreaming
With pulsing hearts in unison across the land
We're led by light of a star sweetly gleaming
Set up by wise men to help us make our stand
The King of kings found in the eyes of a stranger
In all our trials born to be our friend
To help us in times of both need and in danger
Behold the Thing, the essence of its blend
Behold the Thing, enraptured to no end

Duly we've been shown to respect one another
Our credo is obedience to the law that's policed
We've broken the chains and freed our brothers
Decreed in our own name from oppression released
Our song of rapture in gratitude we practice
Use search engines to know the meaning of peace
Priceless our Star, extol its light forevermore!
To shower us in glory broadcast evermore
The power of its story broadcast evermore




17.12.23

THE PERFECT LENS

 by shaun lawton 


Spied through a crystal ball 

crafted in mid-suspension.

Perfect as the concept 
in a cryogenic vat slung in low-gravity within
a perpendicular wave-tank in which crystal 
spheres are crafted on the far side of the Sun.

Torched under heat of waldos
in laboratories connected by concentric rings.

Spun to gyroscopic and pinned
against the perihelion of a heavy G-contrast.

The computer executes the mold
from the colloid at the centrifuge.

Remote controlled from here on Earth 
at the instant of gravitational balance.

A more optimal form not possible. 

The digital midwife delivers the contacts
in just under thirty-six weeks.

No limit to their focus 
Calibrated from a star.

13.12.23

SHIFTSHAPERS

 by shaun lawton 


We're shattered into the universe
& I'll tell you how, once long ago
during a brief spell while
the tide pulled away, the under-
lying secret to the beauty of life
and the world was revealed to us,
somewhat terrible in its stark
essence, yet beloved in a sort
of arresting heart-attack which
begins with that moment of
love at first sight. 
   Our world remains because 
of a series of wild digressions,
not to mention our continued
survival.  It's how we
translate the term 'survival'
that feeds back into and affects
our perpetual existence. 
   When we learn how the body
remains a temporary vehicle
for the one soul that exists,
a shift occurs in our program-
ming that helps us adjust
to adapting.



SL
Nov 17, '23
SLC  

19.1.23

THIS ORGANISM



seething breathing living in peace    
 feeling fury  fighting to live
  growing knowing  showing your naked heart
 this organism  breathing 
concrete clawing  steel eyed 
 drawing real lines  across the sky 
   tracing  erasing  vaporous  convulsions 
  facing construction  erection  demolition  inhaling 
 control organized realized  faith in humankind 
trust in science  depending  on nature's totality 
 exhaling  burning  fuming  seeking  finding
   balance  losing it  choosing it  using it
  breathing in   this physical addiction  to Godhood
 breathing out  psychological trickery  self denial  delusion intrusion  collusion  confusion  movement 
 stillness  crowded solitude  comfort in togetherness 
   alone to the bone  on the phone  boiling 
  evaporating  hating  loving  feeling nothing 
 caught up in this  slow motion  explosion
this breathing  expanding  retracting  organism 
 flying into the unknown  known  blind only 
  to find  familiar strangeness  sprouting
   everywhere  asphalt cracking  in turbulence
  serenity  chaos  calculating  luck  chance
 taking giving  choosing  or not  to believe