Argument with a tormenting other-self (poem) by Tarek Ali Hassan on AuthorsDen

Argument with a tormenting other-self
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Galileo was interrogated, imprisoned and tormented until he recanted his blasphemous, heretic vision that the Earth was spherical, and untill he denied the nonesensense about Earth rotating around Sun! Are the same dynamics with us in our hyper-free World without even knowing? Is any one of us who dares swim against the reigning current, subject to the same dynamics suitably modernised?!
(for Greenpeace,Ronald Laing and Ilmaz Guney and Galileo Galilei) (Input): I am floating with ether in my blood over the rising stones of tomb cities metropolis necropolis metropolis over the petrified forest petrified trees trees straightened into patterns of conformity polished squared painted reformed they have even set the trees in line for a salute... a V.I.P. none less than the Grand Vizier will inspect and refute.. and all trees had better look trimmed and straight all ready for the daily march.. of pomp, circumstance and of starch all to attention! along the Boulevard and under the stony arch with the Grand Vizier plumed and swaying like a duck! �� the great leader inspects the scene a criss cross forest of violence,hate and artificial strife deserving uproar applause and pledges of loyalty for life (counter-input) my ears deafened with the applause I look with my heart�s eye listen with my bones: the lines are black but in my heart they break more lines more lines into the shaded horizon I listen to the sadness of everchanging trees dwarfed petrified! weeping willows everchanging linear straight hard and how how can you encompass pulsation? Bottled rhythm how? (petrification into maturation) oh flashing blobs of sudden despair in the darkness in houses of fixed wisdom in the cold cold vaults... of absolute certainty HELP THOSE EYES TO SOME REST! dull this consciousness please! the lines are black the earth is flat the lines are black the earth is flat Galileo testified the earth is fixed straight and flat! Applause Uproar FINIS! ..... (heresy) the lines are black but in my heart they break the lines are black but in my bones they die the norms are made and laid but in my blood they fade the measurements are exact the limits are compact the laws are just the norms are civil civilised secure secured lauded applauded defended to the hilt the earth is flat BUT IT IS NOT FLAT!!! leo leo leo galileo leo leo leo galileo galileo gali gali galileo IT IS NOT FLAT! IT IS FLAT! (torture) oh burning blobs of infinite despair in light die die die now......... .......and let me rest (prayer) eyes..........sleep delicious fluid of perception... freeze in tired ears dry.... intimate moisture of engulfing tenderness nose mouth muscle loving skin listening bones...be no more t'is the age of angels now (rebellion and sin) black lines of superb monotony lies of concordance lies concordant magnificent present unborn untrue edifice edifice edifice applause uproar mass furore edifice edifice.... edifice........ (vision,compassion and lamentation) angel guardians of this unnatural peace angel custodians of captive genes angel guardians of the deformed trees of infinite growth... behold the magnificence that chokes the stars behold the superb obscenity of this magic T H E S U N I S C O L D the rising fragments of frozen stones reach now the sky sky-scraper high stifled in infinite glory ..and cry the rising fragments of frozen stones reach now the sky ... in tombs of overwhelming power poised on traps of aggressive success they play computer games sky-high, they toast omnipotent power, as they invent more computer games and weapons of mass destruction and contrive to dull any remnant sensation in all manner of artificial thrill and pulsation and war games and information and free elections ............. and more games

Reviewed by Robert Williams

Reviewed on February 13, 2005

During Galileo's time, a spherical earth was a Muslim concept. Galileo's claim was blasphemous because it denied the Catholic concept of a flat earth and supported the Muslim concept of a round one. It was at Qurtabah (Cordoba) that Columbus learned that the earth was round and hatched his plans to sail west to reach India and steal their gold. The tragedy is that Galileo was just one of many people made to deny their minds to appease those yielding the power to initiate force. And though today people in most countries are not killed for their ideas, even Mr Lear who designed the Lear jet could not initially convince people of lesser intellect that his design would sell.

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya

Reviewed on October 2, 2003

This one is excellent my friend...cheers...love n luck....I love your poems....keep on writing forever my friend....BHUWAN

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)

Reviewed on June 19, 2003

That is some dialog. Well done. I enjoyed reading your work.

Reviewed by E T Waldron

Reviewed on June 18, 2003

This is an epic masterpiece!Bravo!!!