Poetry by Carl James Johnson
Biography
I started writing short stories and poetry about ten years ago.
The poem 'Earth-Bound Entities’ is published on Planet Magazine's #21 web
site. URL http://planetmag.com/.
Earth-Bound Entities
It entered the Milky Way galaxy in the Virgo constellation
its spiraling path, bringing it ever-nearer
a planet once teeming with activity and animation
The black hole enveloped in the light of its orbiting photon-sphere
grew ever-larger, interacting with other living worlds
Flares above its photon-sphere extending light-years
guided and intensified by the spiritual energy of extinguished light
Its material dimension converted into gravity
thus forever ending secularity and strife
The black hole approached--its photon-sphere like a stormy cosmic sea
High above its event horizon a magnificent flare of blue light
reached the planet amidst the desolation
for the earth was devoid of any life forms of complexity--
they having been annihilated in a war of mutual destruction
All that remained were restless, ghost-like entities
The Galactic Spirit manifested in the flare of blue light
felt a kinship with the planets spirits
and sought to remove them from their present plight
The earthly spirits proved unable to escape their dwelling place of doom
for the impure earth-bound energy embodiment of Armageddon's fallout
covered the planet like a sinister, impenetrable psychic cloud of doom
Extending from
ripping apart the
like a winding serpent, its head where
the planet's longest rift valley starts to open wide
Red-hot molten lava from below, inundated by the waters rushing forth
The regional focus of earthly spirituality, into the chaos now subsides
The black hole's event horizon reached the earth's location
dragging into its vortex the cloud of doom and darkness
converting it and the hissing, steaming planet into energy of gravitation
The planet's spirit entities would no longer with the earth remain
Being free to join the Galactic Spirit and partake of its cosmic domain.
COSMIC CONFLICT
`Imagine seeking God through a wormhole in space`
Said the scientist, to his young protégée
`They say He's everywhere, lighting up the universe`
`God's very busy creating energy these days`, responded the
protégée
Interjected the scientist; `too busy to find`?
Last night replied the protégée, he'd had this dream,
of a supernova explosion, two-thousand light years away,
and caused by the actions of God
He'd heard about it, said the scientist, on this mornings news,
Favoring the open, energy filled universe, expanding into eternity
The closed universe, where gravity rules, is the one he would want
He, being born into wealth, of sound body and mind,
were the universe to oscillate forever and anon,
again and again, in this situation, he'd be
The young protégée reflected on this, whereupon he replied,
that his younger sibling, born some months before,
lived for just seconds, whereupon she died
If the universe were closed, and forever oscillated,
she would know of nothing, but everlasting pain
So God knew best, when He made the universe open
The scientist would not, on the matter concede
Technology, said he, will control magneto-stars,
with magnetic field-generated laser power,
converting light into matter, and expansion slow down
Might there then be at some future date,
a cosmic confrontation, with some,
seeking to convert energy into mass, while others,
seek to insure, the universe meet its designated destiny
PROTON DECAY
In a time when matter is abundant and gravity prevails
life struggles against entropy, but to no avail
Animate thought patterns of electromagnetic energy
imprint upon the universal field, whence the resultant synergy
enables the entity; the material part of which there is no trace
to escape the chaos by burrowing into sanctuaries of hyperspace
There awaiting a time when the matter-phase will exist no more
all substance having vanished long before
to decay into a universal fluid of vast immensity
an ocean without bounds, extending to infinity
in which the electromagnetic essence of life is now free
to frolic in the waves of an endless sea
where the principle of non-locality on a cosmic dimension
allows for instant sharing of pleasurable sensations