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What Happened Today?
by Leland Waldrip → (All Poetry by Leland Waldrip)
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We should be excited about time travel. We can't not time travel. It is in one direction only, into the future. It occurs increment after increment, on an extremely regular basis.

What was it that happened today?
Sun trod its path in the Milky Way,
Planets, elliptic orbits tracked,
Moon ‘round the blue earth tacked.

On earth, tides rolled in and rolled out,
Waves tossed to, fro, and about,
Rivers ran off hills into the sea,
Winds were drawn and blew endlessly.

All matter, as properties demanded,
Joined, separated, shrank or expanded,
New molecular compounds arrayed,
Phase-shifts continued non-allayed.

Myriad processes continued apace,
Not heeding whim, or waiting for grace,
Locked in nature’s deadly embrace,
Must continue competitive interlace.

Dynamic events did wildly unfold,
Yet we can’t buy influence for fortune sold.
But looking backward to a point in time,
We could’ve had leverage for a silly dime.

Intelligence applied with rational respect
Gives us the power, future to affect.
Tidal waves crush every harbored boat—
Yet if warned and moved, are still afloat.

With bold stroke we bend coming events,
And initiate sequence no force prevents.
So remember past gain, all the glory,
But look ahead for a different story, 
For nothing we do, nothing we say,
Can change what happened today.  

 

 

 


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Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on April 17, 2008
This certainly gives one pause for reflection, Leland. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed on May 31, 2003
This was excellent, love what you shared with us today!

Reindeer

Reviewed by Maria Lupinacci
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
This is very good! So much in here, I read it a few times. It is filled with knowledge!

Maria

Reviewed by Birdie Houston (Reader)
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Awesomely unique really takes ones deepest mind on a trips in the past loved your write this really sky rocketed ! Bravo Leland ...Bravo !

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Great. Well done.

In Populr Science March 2002 there is a good article on the physics of time travel, and an interview with Paul Davies, British-born physicist. Then there is the Philidelpia Experiment.

And on earth, the tides roll in and roll out.

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
What an incredible write!

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Exceptional write Leland...!!
What happened today?
I am one day older than yesterday...and that is enough to make it a "Bad day"

Love
Tinka

Reviewed by Joseph* OneLight*® (Reader)
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Leland,

I enjoy reading you because I learn something in poetic form, which is enjoyable!

~Joseph

Reviewed on May 31, 2003


– “What Happened Today” is a poem dressed with knowledge, social responsibility, spiritual balance and education; poemized with emotions that strike thoughts, stimulate imagination and tour with the readers to the gates of science, and is poetized with words that express the message with precision and deliver what Poetry must.

I Salute the Author of "What Happened Today?"

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU




Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Leland this is awesome. I love it! To put 24 hours into a poem that covers the event so brilliantly, Bravo!

Reviewed by John Bidwell
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Great write indeed.
John

Reviewed on May 31, 2003
(((leland))) i love the way you write! meter and rhyming perfect, and love the ending "...as nothing we do, nothing we say/can change what happened today." AMEN--already predestined! great write, my friend...(((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)

Reviewed by Robert Blackwell (Reader)
Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Great write, Leland!

Reviewed on May 31, 2003
Thank you, Leland! You write exceptional!
-Bear


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