Analysis of THE ETERNAL NOW



THE ETERNAL NOW

All energy is the Eternal Now  The forms of energy move and mutate
The motion continuum cannot stop  The Eternal Now is always in
flux  The Eternal Now is reality  There is no time in the Eternal
Now  Humans are a part of the Eternal Now  Mind is the patterns
that swirl in the brain  Our senses and nerves submit to delay
Knowing the Now, motion does not allow  Minds always lag the Eternal
Now  Our minds only feed on what is past  Delay in mind makes
thought past, you see  If your mind knows it, it's history
Records are states of Now that persist  Persistence is not
permanent, though  It is required for us to know  Records tell
stories of motions too  Some are old, some are recently new  The
records in the Now define the past  Records come via senses quite
slow  Records sometimes mutate as they flow  Sense data is changed
to memories  Minds process only their memories  The recent past is
the minds present  But the Now it really isn't  Future's not real,
it does not exist  We live in the present most people insist  But
based on a past that does not exist  All of knowledge, what we think
and see  Is abstraction of reality


Scheme X XXAXXAXBXXXXXXXXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 00101 1100100101011100101 010010010100101110 100101110111100010 11010110010111010 1100110100101101 10011011011110010 1101101111101011 1111111111100 01111110101011 1001110101111011 1011011111110010 01001010101110101 10101111111011 11001110110001011 0110101110101011 11101110010110011 1101111011110111 011010110
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,156
Words 218
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 18
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 452
Words per stanza (avg) 120

About this poem

This poem explains the nature of "now". It covers the concepts of past, present (the now) , and the future. It explains what our minds can use as input data.

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Written on February 12, 1998

Submitted by In2ition on July 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:06 min read
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Edward Medalis

Ameture poet. worked as an electronics technition but mostly as a software engineer. I'm the old guy in the pictures front row. more…

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