Hank's Pond Pequannock Watershed

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telepathy?

Did it happen or did it not?

Was it spoken or was it thought?

Is it possible to convey without words

What we are thinking but do not say?

Science fiction becomes today’s published study

Telepathy experiment over the internet

Perhaps it’s possible to do mind reading

Modern times ultimate loss of privacy.

Any pet owner will likely tell you

Their animal understands what they are thinking and feeling

Though how the animals know is in dispute

Imagine communication crossing over to another kind

Standing still or sitting quietly listening

As if a babbling brook speaks distinct messages

As if all the sounds of nature sing a song to us

Endlessly repeating beginning and ending

Feel the world in motion all around us.

Science brings us fantastic awareness

Beyond our sense of this moment in this place

Even the mountains are moving.

Shared individual shards of information

Disseminate to everyone who is connected

Traveling in waves of bits and bytes

Reflecting along the shore of our cultural pond.

The expanding universe expands our consciousness

The music of the spheres now replaced as an ancient construct

The material world so full of our inventions built from ideas

Such an amazing achievement of intelligence.

Echo Lake Pequannock Watershed

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climbing old mountains

Being an old man climbing old mountains with my companion

I am a speck of dust walking up and down the bedrock remains

Worn down from great heights over hundreds of millions of years

Because everything is temporary.

I can count millions of minutes if not years in my life

Count tens of thousands of days

Measuring longevity, meaning nothing

Like waves speaking white noise upon the shore.

The measure of a person is not a number

Found on old gravestones listing exactly how many days, months and years

Eroded inscriptions one hundred years later blurred contours

Whispering to the wind soughing in the pines.

From the escarpment ridge looking out into the distance

The long view to the horizon presents a panorama larger than life

So beautiful to behold under a cloudless sky

So wonderful to partake.