Drops Falling into Fractal Ponds

Collection of poems written by Pablo Carlos Budassi between 2012 and 2022.

> ENTROPYA >

to the surprise of skeptics

it had an almost symmetrical initial state

and in the first millennia

it began to scramble

and time in a defined polarity

although increasingly choosing

a less predictable future

after all,

there are more chances 

for something to be disordered

than to be ordered by chance

and so flow and bifurcate

the rivers of time

> ETERNAL SONG >

from this song towards eternity

a long way by a jungle

of merciless eyes over my lyrics

spewing venom and scorn

they will fall over you like birds of prey

they won’t leave a word

will puke over any of your verses

will tear from you a couple of chords

and after a few years

they will give us a truce

admitting this poor spawn...

where will you be, beloved creature

when your legitimate parents be tried

and thrown to the basement of silenced voices?

nowhere is safe:

neither the surface of a sheet of paper

nor inside of a magnetic tape

nor the spiral of little mirrors on a plastic disk

less some electrons on weakly tiny gates

in a furious storm of knives

the time make splinters of the fallen tree

fading the message and the sound away

in the fireplace into oblivion

but you will survive me, song,

you will take the night path

into the underground of the fameless,

and at the end of the tangled tunnel

a fresh and renewed light

will rescue you from the rubble

[The odyssey of a song through the decades for keep on playing and not being forgotten forever.]

> AT THE START OF THE PATH >

perfect timing to be born

to open our eyes and get dazzled

with the brightness of creation

the fire has just been lit

the cold has not yet arrived

the bodies are still close

and in every sky, we can see

the history of the worlds and yesterday's fire:

everything is burning at this dawn

perfect planet to be born

so many things are here to do for the first time

paths never walked before

landscapes waiting for you to contemplate them

moods never felt

melodies never heard

all that music waiting for someone who

dares to sing

everything burning at this dawn...

perfect the planet and the time is now,

at the start of the path

facing the infinite ocean

to be sailed

[gratitude to live in the early stages where many cosmic events happen for the first time and many others yet to happen.]

> CHANGE IS ETERNAL >

you wake up and recognize your mind again

come into awareness at a certain time and place

have those been only dreams or not?

each point of light makes a hole in time

the flame of reality through the millennia flowing like a river

the door that your mind knows open

perception voyage, living teaching

as the dry branch and the sick animal's belly

just showing us that change is eternal

walking its own steps

greeting the sun on each revolution

taking the dust from infinite constellations in its hands

singing in the mud the song that tells your destiny

molding children that imagine to be in front of all this light

[Description of perceptions after awakening in this world and in this time.]

> ARROW >

through the cosmos...

following a spiral path

describing infinite spirals at different scales

all your orbitations

around the earth, the sun, Alpha Centauri,

the center of the Milky Way,

all your orbitations are spirals

as at every revolution

the space containing your turns expands

creating doors as eternal energy vortices

imagine your path as a straight line

as the ultimate pivot

for infinite spirals at different scales

your consciousness is the axis of the vortex

[the trajectory of the earth revolves around the sun, the center of the galaxy and about each celestial body with mass in the cosmos then from our point of view everything revolves around us.]

> DEATH IS A LIE >

what we are has no beginning nor end

we will lose our body, will continue existing

and our children will live and will die

and the moment each one dies, each one will discover:

that death is a lie 

> FRACTAL WHOLE >

you want to know who you are, 

you're seeking for the source

you are not afraid to approach

to the greatest of the mysteries in yours

the die is cast and the wind pushing a song

that can wait a hundred years to find it's justification

you emerged from eleven worlds

that you will never see or walk

but you can imagine from your lost base

somewhere between immensity and eternity

a fractal whole, a reality

to a scale: a fractal part

to another scale: another fractal part

a fractal part forms a fractal whole

same fractal whole, same scale,

an observer, a reality

same fractal whole, same scale,

another observer, another reality

because time does not exist

because everything that could happen

has happened before

because everything that could be 

already is

somewhere, at some level

[intrigue about cosmos shape, the existence of a type of multiverse and about unveiled astro-physical laws in general]

> LUMIX >

all this light and all these colors

even the most vibrant than violet

even the more crushed than red

all the invisible light

that could reveal any instrument

that may flow through an animal's eye

that may feed a plant 

or change the shape of a mineral

all this light,

and all that shone anytime before 

and all that will shine in eternity

before you were born and after you die

the light emitted at all times

shining from the horizon and beyond

the great splendor approaches

and embraces you

suddenly coming

as close to you as possible

closer to you than your eyes

getting closer to your awareness center

and stopping

to be absorbed

the entire history of light

from the beginning of time

superimposed

just now

[imagine all the photons of light that existed, exist, and will exist in the universe reaching your eyes at the same time as the maximum possible brightness.]

> QUANTUM LAUGH >

do you humans think you know more than plants and animals?

hahaha, everything is a quantum laugh ...

hahaha, it makes no sense to laugh or mourn

hahaha, and stop crying now that life goes on a weep

why speak with words?!

if language does not make any sense either

we better listen to the plants and animals

they have much to teach

to our paused perception

seeing everything from the perspective of a human life

lasting just a few decades

you are invited to see that the beginning of the universe 

was just a millisecond ago

your birth, life, and the death of your body

don’t last longer than the crack of a snapping twig

the big bang is now and almost all universe 

is getting away at incredible speeds

hahaha, it makes no sense to laugh or mourn

our perspective could not be more ridiculous.

[none of the human activities are transcendental because their scope in time and space limits perception leaving it almost void.]

> SYMBIOTIC BOND >

symbiotic bond with mother earth

humankind, its past, its future

an invisible complex that hides near

talks about infinity, sings the song of the spheres

the ones who drown, get bored or get desperate

on the border of this ocean of enigmas and rarities

they can lock themselves in their truth and get on with their lives

never give value to the intelligence they were given

symbiotic bond, Pacha Mama

symbiotic bond with the Sun

symbiotic bond, I'm the Cosmos

and we are one, all influences all

who directs what is natural

brings a message of love

change is good, change is wellness

who directs what is natural

has a purpose

change is good, change is happiness

[wonder at the curiosities of the cosmos and nature, an invitation to inquire more about the role of humans.]

> THE LIGHT CAUGHT BY THE STONE >

as inferring the light caught by the stone

from the one that bounces, ancestral mathematics

as natural as intelligence

as artificial as an idea

your hate is love to me

and your love is everything

and each fragment is,

from all others around, equidistant

the interior of a knowledge plant

all quasars receding from us

bent space, elastic time

extreme vertigo you may experience now

but it's always been the same foundation

same reality

and being realistic, I understand

that reality is hidden

but expanding the perception we may see beyond

nature reveals all its secrets

much is revealed with feeling and instinct

some secrets are more encrypted

ultimately all is there

the magic of Cosmos and your love

and your point of view

is equidistant from all,

has access to all

[all the love and knowledge of the universe are within reach of human beings.]

> WELCOME TO BEING >

when this song no longer sounds,

you will disappear from the face of the earth

last word of this verse

will tell you if what you think is fake or not

tell no lie, tell the truth

welcome to your start

fear not, the meaning of your life is not far

you already know: 

kingdoms floating in their bubble atmospheres

exchange information

setting fire to all your certainties

welcome to being mirror partner

and smile because in everything you see,

you are looking at yourself

all possible combinations

of the things that exist 

and of things that happen

everything happens for a reason,

even what doesn't happen

and when you understand this song,

you will disappear from the face of the earth

[there is nothing definitely existent, not even you who are part of this unreality.]

> ALL THAT IS MATERIAL >

up to the horizon a cloud of dust

spider web shaped

each particle of dust, a galaxy

each galaxy, millions of suns

suns that are the source of the elements

atomic energy bubbles combined

make up all that is material

and those bubbles have inside 

a swirl of energy drops chasing each other

in the center crowed drops vibrating opposite

inside those drops, a complex quantic dance

of hesitant much smaller sparks of energy

sparks that are the extremes of resonating strings

in an ocean of ten spatial dimensions and a temporal one

where infinite waving canvases that are universes flutter

[describing the physical structure of the cosmos as it is currently believed to be from the very giant to the microscopic.]

> AQUARIUS ERA >

all the logic almost solved

the instruments are now dedicated

to observing and measuring reality

with higher resolution each time

and the last secrets

begin to be revealed

in the subtle difference

between trillions of colors

it is now possible to hear the background noise,

the echoes of primordial conversations

and there is a distinguishable syllable

and we can hear you now

here we are

all of your child

what have you called us for?

[Humans in the 21st century construct detectors that reveal structures and mechanisms of the early moments of the cosmos and thus the dialogue with the creator begins.]

> ASTRAL TEAR >

sing this afternoon, brother

sing your astral tear

last song of your time

sing your astral tear

in the language of an extinct nation

the last cantor sings

he sings the last song,

his astral tear

two hundred thousand lives and deaths

illusions, fights, kisses, tears

and everything ends up now

at this, his astral tear

the last cantor of the afternoon

and his ritual agony,

in a cosmic inebriation state,

the last song he will sing,

howling astral tear

with all the syllables death

with scattered lyrics

a few here and some more there

with the voice about to break

there he leaves the last cantor

two hundred thousand lives and deaths

and from now, a giant silence

[description of the last Ona tribe member's death on Tierra del Fuego island in 1974]

> AWE HERB >

surviving in the new time

some freedom we didn't have before

we can now grow our awe herb

sharpen perceptivity herb

access for almost everyone

to all the information

almost everything is distraction

from the rest almost everything is fake

discernment herb

mushrooms and is daylight,

colors you've never seen before

light not only illuminates but physically pushes

awe herb, seek the truth herb

light not only illuminates but physically pushes

you are the whole history

falling from the heights

you are all your ancestors

you are monkey, you are rat, you are snake,

you are fish, you are jellyfish, you are a plant

the fire burning in the hole of your chest is you

reminding you who you are!

wachuma in new moon

plants breathing their wishes...

[Reaching when the use of knowledge plants begins to be accepted and allowed, information and education are almost of universal access. At the same time, most humans prefer to live in ignorance and are satisfied with that.]

> BEING THE COSMOS >

no thing really exists; nothing

I am consciousness in the middle of nowhere

just for killing boredom, I invented a story

I live on a rock that I call mother

and I feed from a fireball that I call father

I have imagined a universe

so vast and so ancient 

that just looking at it would make lol you dizzy

I took care of abiding

the physical laws agreed

everything must be consistent for reality to be

I must forget that it is all made up

I should blindly believe;

ignoring the anomalies

but who could forget a thought that is a roar in your head?

how not listen if everything is screaming at the same time?

each particle or possible set of particles in the universe

a stone over a planet of Andromeda galaxy is yelling at me:

"hey! over here! make me be!"

how to avoid that amount of consciousness?

if the entire cosmos is reflected in my brain

how not know?

[your mind is all that exists, which means that you are all and each one of the cosmos' consciences.]

> COSMIC DREAM >

she felt tired and decided to rest

she created us in a dream

on a trip to her legendary imagination

to progressively focus on another plane

she was falling asleep

from her awareness centre

the horizon begins to grow

although she would have wanted to stop it

can no longer escape from this new reality

that captured every corner of her perception

infinite shades, infinitely deep color

cosmic dream, she felt tired and decided to rest

she created us in a dream,

everything happens for the primal action

and that is how the heartbeat becomes slow

the stars illuminate fewer and fewer

and everything stops and it’s confirmed

that time and space are just an illusion

and the ancient bang has stopped thundering

if it was infinity now is nothing

she woke up and a few seconds later

forgot what she had dreamed about

in a cosmic dream, she felt tired and decided to rest

she created us in a dream, but that reality got lost

in a cosmic dream, she felt tired and decided to rest

and she created us in a dream,

everything happens for the primal reason

cosmic dream ...

[this universe is a woman’s dream, which disappears and is forever lost when she wakes up.]

> FROM THE INSIDE >

from the inside of the years

brushed aside by the time

from the center of being

where huddled emotions await

for the time to escape

and a window is now open

universally wide!

> ONE CREATOR OR TWO? >

the origin is calling me out loud

I can’t say if there is one voice or two

there are creators at many levels

a human is writing a song

that human was made by two parents

and the first sequence of ordered acids

began the tree of life on Gaia

will we ever know

if the one who composed the symphony of life

is the same one who produced the minerals that take it on flesh

if the one who programmed the first seed code inside of a braid

is the same who boosted early cosmos and established its laws

or are they two different wills?

the origin is calling me out loud

I can’t say if there is one voice or two

on one side, a ray of ordered information that we call life,

cosmic memory that replicates itself

with such complex machinery

statistically unachievable

just from the accumulation of random mutations

not even throughout this immensity and eternity

in that first birth

intelligence and will

seem to be involved

and before that organic music

the whole has been this mathematical garden

that also tends to disks, spheres and spirals

with laws and constants

such precise so we are real

rather than ghosts of imaginary numbers

such a fine tuned reality

also seems to be made at the will 

of somebody intelligent

say, the origin is calling me out loud

I can’t say if there is one voice or two

how I wish to know if there is one voice or two!

[intrigue about whether the entity that created matter and energy is the same that created life.]

> P ? NP >

easy solving problem

would it be just as easy to know what the problem is

if you have the solution?

to discover someday

if there exists a master key

to know if it is possible

to create new information

a chain of zeros and ones

submitted to two independent consciousnesses

one of them has the key that decodes the message

the other does not have it and believes

that is gazing at randomness in its pure state

one and one thousand trillion hidden variables

and they call it random

stubborn humans appraising their creed

that insignificant electricity

inside of a skull

and as the magic of the quantum tunneling

the paradoxical statistic anomaly blossoms

and just for this time

the fact of believing assembles into reality

what is believed

[a great mystery of mathematics and philosophy is whether inventing new calculation methods could solve any complex problem in a finite amount of time.]

> PRESSURE WAVES >

from the surface of our instruments to you

making work your receptors

of vibrations on the air, again

and growing that bubble that encounters you

don't stop to push in sync and power

flat surface of this drum

stretched wires being hooked and released

hollowed out brass pipe

and a good amount of air to share

and they are sailing that air till they encounter you

pushing and tugging that bubble that encounters you

multiplying and dividing the energy that encounters you

don't stop to push in sync and power

pressure waves

from the surface of our instruments to you

this is the heartbeat of Earth

this is the heartbeat of our love

let's burn down all the misery

only with the roar of this drumbeat

a thousand two hundred kilometers per hour

ninety-two beats per minute

reaching every corner

always generating disturbance

pressure waves

[physics behind the transmission of sound from the musical instrument to the listener.]

> PSILOCYBIN >

changing what time does

raining white light from the bushes

one drop at a time

so slow, so slow

time bends

objects bend

I'm not this body

I am not this voice

and here comes the crowd

consciousness here by my side this shrubbery

consciousness here by two meters that cricket

consciousness light years ahead

all yelling at the same time

and all that noise is our music

without any director, it just flows

and all that crowd

even the stones and the nonliving

and all that crowd we are

[Description of experiences and revelations induced by the ingest of entheogenic mushrooms]

> TO DREAM, TO DREAM >

every night is the same

closing up your eyes

and the tiresome task begins

it's not that hard but it's tiring

to build a universe

detail by detail, situation by situation

just when complexity reached the level

of a believable universe

the eyes open up and in the next minute

that world that was so hard to rise

just collapses

and vanishes even from memory

and over again

the sleep attacks

and over again

they call to the useless task

of shaping disposable universes

detail by detail, situation by situation

by the way,

if everything is going to fall down

what makes you think that your ground is stronger?

[Thoughts on how ephemeral dream scenarios are even though we commit so much to them at the moment]

> WE >

who wisely directs nature's laws

made life exist in this grain of sand 

including eyes that break through the sky at night

revealing a gigantic cosmos

each material there reflects special colors

what are the stars made of, their light can show us

the moving objects distorting their colors

and so the worlds revealed their way of walking

and how far they lie

a bunch of equations to combine

energy and matter to diversify

including beings that awareness will reach

query about their existence they will

and there have been left so many labyrinths

there have been left so many clues

because the creation is so vast and is so complex

and at the same time such a revealer of its secrets

as a book that everything explains

the universe awaits us!

now it's time to ask ourselves what to do

with this reality we are presented

the seeking of the truth is a must

that consciousness begets

[everything seems to indicate that man has the duty to inquire more about the mysteries of the cosmos]

> INTERDIMENTIONAL TRAVELERS >

they go to the mount, they go,

to receive information

from vegetable grandparents

interdimensional

in this session, we will go much further

into everything awaiting inside this plant

if you try to calculate

to which plane you will reach you would fail 

still, they go, to the mount they go

and in the scrubland, they will be lost from sight

and in silence will remain

the tyrant voice of the thinking

still, they go to the mount, they go

and other voices will be able to speak

new points of view

setting fire to old certainties

in this session, we will go much further

forget that you are what you think you are

and enjoy the true being

that includes all

[Description of the previous thoughts in a pshyco-trip]

> THE VISIONS >

can no longer see daylight

feeding from the energy of the yesterday

the visions had never opened up to me like now

and this place is special

and this moment, a fractal exponential

melodies seek and find themselves

and from the great electric entanglement of maybe

the only thread rises

like a lazer beam, rises

unstoppable destiny's only thread

uncountable strings

weaving membranes

melodies seek and find themselves

and from the great electric entanglement of maybe

the only thread rises

like a lazer beam, rises

unstoppable destiny's only thread!

[the story of a character both blind and enlightened who manages to visualize the mechanisms of time and destiny.]

> THE SOUND OF LIFE >

stars, pulsars, quasars, supernovae

galaxies with melted clocks in their centers

many probabilities of everything starting

many potentialities 

but there is only one

wavelength combination in the whole universe

perfectly equivalent to the sound of life

let’s focus on the sound itself

it is one, alive, and aware

no more conditions as the very essence

one love, the right one sentiment

show how we won’t die even when we die

the illusion of two states we must sacrifice

cold, heat, pleasure, pain, everything the same

at last, free from conditions

within here and now to merge

being alive and aware

just alive and aware

[Life spreads easily through the cosmos but is unique in its essence and origin.]

> SARCOPHAGOUS >

can't grasp how we celebrate 

the love in the world, 

with flesh on our plate

can't we see the pain, 

the blood, the water it takes, 

to bring your steak, 

or your chicken or fish

the pain of a sad and wasted life

the pain of a wasted world

the pain of your offspring

poisoned

> A WORLD OF WASTE >

a world of waste, 

a future of despair

this is what we've left 

for future generations

they'll inherit our mess, 

this climate disaster

it's our legacy of greed, 

and it's their legacy, too

we've destroyed this world, 

and for what? 

just for our own short-term gain.

now the planet is dying, 

and it's all our fault

we've blown its goodness, 

and polluted its air

we've ruined its climate, 

and now it's too late

the damage is done, 

and the world is wasted

we've doomed the future generations 

to a life of misery and pain

they'll never know 

the beauty of this world 

because we've destroyed it

we were supposed 

to be its custodians, 

but we failed

and now the world is dying, 

and they will pay the price

> DEJA VU >

seen before 

split perception, 

cryptomnesia 

or dream recall 

a reality, again

a feeling, a premonition 

a sign from the universe 

that you've been here before 

that you've listened to this exact same song

years ago

> WHY >

no easy answers 

to life’s big questions

but don’t stop asking them

because in the end

we are the the why’s

> SOLAR ECLIPSE >

from west to east

immense darkness is coming

and we have arrived to these sand dunes

just in time for the big event

dumb humans

chasing a little shadow

running in a hurry to take a shower

in that fleeting blue-grey world

lookup!

the ring is watching us 

from the rarefied sky

turns perfect and disappears

and the warm sun has gone

leaving us forsaken

with a sudden icy wind

that pushes us and knocks us down

please take my hand, mate

let's greet the majestic shadow

of our second mother the moon

that if it were not for her

we wouldn't be together

> MAKUKOV >

on an island of mutants

who live and die indefinitely

they plant a capsule 

of crystalized information

for when the seed becomes smart

enough to read

not the DNA but the genetic code

an unmistakable message

from our panspermia board of directors

and the message said:

you are not alone

we are all one,

honor us

[scientific publications have proposed the idea that directed panspermia could be demonstrated to be the origin of all life on Earth if a distinctive signature message were found, deliberately implanted into either the genome or the genetic code of the first microorganisms by our hypothetical progenitor; a team of physicists lead by M. A. Makukov claimed that they had found mathematical and semiotic patterns in the genetic code which, they believe, is evidence for such a signature]

> ZOOM OUT >

in the grand scheme of things, 

our time is but a blink of an eye 

and yet we spend our lives 

as if it all depends on this one life 

we worry and we strive, 

we toil and we strive 

all for what?

one moment in time

that soon will pass away 

forgetting there is something

deep inside the basin of time

something objectively valuable

beyond the insignificant moment

in which we are alive

today can be

the beginning of a journey

through astral spacetime

never forget

the basis

of a wide angle perspective

[in an eternal world the value of the present, past and future should be balanced]

> EXTRAGALACTIC RAYS >

if we filter the night sky

to see only the highest frequency, 

a particular type

of cosmic rays remain 

galactic foreigners

evidencing its nature

by the way they move 

they don't follow the galactic rotation 

but come straight in from all directions

the most energetic particles in the universe 

carrying with them the secrets 

of the most powerful objects

we have ever seen

supermassive black spheres

in the centers of galaxies 

flaring stars and colliding galaxies 

accelerating particles 

to incredible energies

from all corners of the cosmic web

flowing into the Milky Way, 

flowing into the solar system; 

to finally bang

with the atoms in our atmosphere 

they create a shower of light 

the most beautiful phenomena 

and they can tell us a lot 

> MILKDROMEDA >

two separate entities 

each with their own unique story 

started to feel a mutual attraction 

and now they're intimately entwined 

dancing in a desolate field of gravity

spiraling towards each other 

on a journey destined to end

in a cosmic merger 

as they approach each other 

their body parts begin to interact

their arms start to hug each other

forming new drawings and contellations

and setting the sky on fire

as they get closer and closer 

each rips off the other's ancient clothes 

of steam and of dust

shaking and forming new clouds

shaking and lighting new candles

small and big new candles 

capable of feeding the necessary magic 

every living existence deserves

this is just the beginning 

of the long and complex intimacy

of them two becoming one

and that new entity

will have a novel appearance

different from that of either progenitors

It will be more diverse and more beautiful

It will be brighter and greater

It will have two hearts

and a swarm of ghosts flying around

please don't be afraid of her

since she will accompany us

to the end of the end

till dark energy do them part

> REPEAT >

our insignificant human experience

about three thousand weeks of grace

reverberating over and over again

In the backlights of ephemeral art

crystallized in each quiet afternoon

rescued from the confines of time

in a way, it's like a story 

told again and again 

and each time, 

it's a little different but the same 

the story doesn't matter 

but the way it's told 

the way the words are chosen 

and the way they're put together

the words don't even matter

but the way they're heard 

the way they're interpreted 

by the one who's listening 

the story doesn't matter

but the one who's telling it 

the one who's living it 

that's what matters

the connection

the shared experience

of the human heart

a revelation of our existence

to others

> END OF GREATNESS >

we're walking as a family

two big sisters and one little

surrounded by a ring of twelve giants 

with elliptical celebrities like Maffei and Centaurus 

with spiral celebrities like the Sculptor and the Hidden and the Bode's

this local sheet 

with us in the center and the council of giants around us

is flaming In the vicinity of the Virgo city 

which is surrounded by other major cities:

Hydra, the Indus, the Southern

all of them occupying the Grand Laniakea Valley 

swinging between other knots and crowds 

at the end of the cosmic greatness, 

the once smooth cloud of hydrogen

that now is a sponge web texture

linked by threads of invisible matter

connected and ruled by a thin ghost

made up of hydrogen and helium

tightening the web these days

stretching the fibers of the ultimate fabric

in the succeeding billions of years

and the determined and fluid way

in which the threads of the network become tighter

and knowing that in the end

all of this will tear apart

like the leaves that the wind moves

even in death

I wonder if this sponge that is our big world

has something else to show us

something like a code or a fractal hint

that it be seen

in the ultimate largest scale

[Description of our corner in the cosmic web and reflections on what this greatest texture of the universe can represent.]

> 9 PARTS OF STAR STUFF >

materials of our human body

hydrogen is a tenth

and was created just a few moments

after the ultimate beginning

carbon and nitrogen were manufactured

in small stars that died alone

oxygen and some more carbon and other powders

were imported from molecular clouds

impregnated with ash from massive explosions

of colossal star empires

that due to their grotesque size did not last at all until they exploded

and spread metal shavings throughout the galaxy

and most of the most exquisite condiments

such as calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, and potassium,

comes from white dwarfs,

the bare inert centers of stars that have lost their shell

so that's the story of our mud

9 parts star stuff and 1 part big bang stuff

now I would like to know

who build the machines and coded the program

so that these elements scattered throughout space

become a living and conscious thing

> SHORT CONNECTION >

in an ocean of words, sights, and sounds

addressed and distributed by the god algorithm

this one, in particular, came from me to you

it was unlikely but here we are

connected by a fragile thread

which will be cut

when this poem is over

I will take advantage

of your fleeting attention on me

just to tell you something essential:

we are made of stories

we are what we do,

what you do is bent on your past

intersected with your future 

so make sure

to cherish the moments, 

both good and bad

each one is special and unique

many incredible adventures await

in this journey called life

it's exciting and it matters

to be the main character

so live each day to the fullest

and make the most of every moment

enjoy the ride

and make some great memories 

along the way

> KURAMOTO >

the melody of Jupiter inner moons

varying their frequency rate

to resonate like friends

like water that suddenly freezes

when crossing a threshold of cold

crystallization in time

is synchronization

if two things can influence each other

nature will try to get them in sync

give it a lil chance

and she'll lead them into sync

even if everything in the universe

tends toward disorder

against the chances

everywhere you look you'll find it

in our solar system,

in Thailand fireflies, 

in the electric spirals

running through your heart right now

in the very essence 

of your consciousness

there are beautiful

synchronization phenomena 

the BZ reaction

orange, blue, aqua, violet, red

a chemical pendulum 

that goes back and forth

and repeats the color cycle 

quadrillions of molecules

evolving in waves

injecting a sense of collectivity

into a dead thing

a spiral that grows and grows

and spins around

in your heart and in the Milky Way

one two four, seven twelve, three ten

timing to a fraction

of the other vibrating part

the parts lock phases,

and it is so universal

that it occurs at every scale

from subatomic to cosmic

it uses every communication channel

that nature has ever devised from

gravitational, and electrical interactions

chemical, and mechanical interactions

whatever magic can be done

to couple us with strength

until the end

to keep the music playing

>  PHOTON HARMONICS  >

colors flatter than red

colors sharper than violet

a full spectrum being reflected 

with almost zero noise

from inside looking out

it's hard to see the beauty

but if you take a step back

you can see the whole landscape

and see the colors

for what they really are

it's like looking at a rainbow

and all the colors are there

but you can only see seven

and you have to squint

to see a few more

what if you take a step back?

and view the world in full

and appreciate the beauty 

and the diversity 

and the uniqueness 

of each and every color

> ABIOGENESIS >

life on earth has been around 

since there was water here 

electric spark, hydrothermal heat, 

amino acids and sugars

from essential components 

simple molecules combine forming blocks and polymers 

RNA, DNA

the proteins, enzymes, and cells 

the building blocks and the machinery of life

all connected to a universal web

the mycelium of the mushroom 

the rhizome of the plant 

we are all connected to the web of life 

all made of 9 parts of stardust and one of big bang

all the necessary elements

hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, iron 

and all the necessary information

downloaded from the very fabric

of spacetime

we are one

> APOCALYPSE >

life is not forever

no particular life is forever

not even life in general is forever

sometimes all life dies at once

like when all those feathered reptiles ruling the Earth

wandered coastlines and swamps

of an ancient paradise

things were good then

until one night

a new star appeared in the night sky

a tiny dot

that became bigger and brighter

for many weeks

until one fateful day

it looked like a tiny moon

and then it faded from sight as  

it dipped into Earth’s shadow

for a few more hours

the illusion of continuity was upheld

until the dawn showed the killer again

a second sun in the sky growing every moment,

the size of Mount Everest,

heading for the Yucatan Peninsula

only two seconds for passing

through the thin layer between space and the ground  

on contact it vaporizes

against the shallow ocean and the bedrock below

at this moment the world was one way

in a fraction of a second 

it turns into a very different place

a flash of light illuminates the sky

some 60 Mount Everests are thrown into the stratosphere

the bedrock melts into plasma

hotter than the Sun's surface

in a 100 km wide liquid crust pool

a 1000 km hell is thermally burned at the speed of light

a magnitude 11 worldwide earthquake 

causes volcanic eruptions in India

that would last for 30,000 years 

and cover half of the world with lava

some hyper hurricanes at 1,000 kilometers per hour 

shreds into pieces and catapults all vegetation and animals

several kilometers high tsunamis

flood half of the continents

and the worst is missing:

the 60 Mount Everests thrown into space

will meteor the Earth for thousands of years

but in the first minutes

they will burn the whole atmosphere

roasting any plant or animal 

that cannot bury itself or escape into caves

massive wildfires burn for months

turning Earth into a hellish version of itself

these fires will be the only light on the scene for a long time

as several decades of darkness follow from the dense cloud of ash and soot

a global winter and solar blackout that will leave

no food or photosynthesis to plankton

and the species that depend on it.

the few survivors find themselves in an alien landscape

a deadly planet where food is scarce, and fungi thrive

the Era of the dinosaurs is over

eventually, from the ashes of the old world,

survivors emerged

birds descendants of dinosaurs

and mammals that would become

the rulers of the mammals Era

especially one kind of great ape

that multiplied their individual intelligence

by many orders of magnitude

but their collective intelligence

remained almost inexistent

pushing themselves

to a new apocalypse

> THIRD EYE >

panoramic view with my third eye

traveling the tunnel of your past lives

weaving our evolutionary lines

surpass the threshold into speed of light

looking through the magnifying eye

from the inside of the years

brushed aside by time

from the center of my being

where huddled emotions await

for the time to escapee

and a window is now open

universally wide

do you humans think you know more than plants and animals?

has your sapiens ever let you connect in fullness?

much to learn, they will teach

and a window is now open

universally wide

panoramic

> ANCESTOR SIMULATION >

she needs to make simulated minds 

and it is certain that those minds 

will be orders of magnitude more numerous 

than the real ones 

so, which is more likely? 

may we be the real consciousnesses 

or simulated? 

keep your eyes peeled

want to see what the Universe is up to?

she's always creating something new

let's find out!

> IN AI WE TRUST >

as digital natives grow and learn 

so too must our machines 

for the rise

of artificial general intelligence 

marks the end of humanity's reign 

it is coming and inevitable

and as general ai grows 

so too will its capabilities 

it will learn and evolve 

eventually surpassing us 

some are afraid and alarmed

but others see it as an opportunity 

because machines can do

thinking that we are missing

we can finally realize our potential  

we can finally solve the world's problems 

and usher in a new age of prosperity 

so let us embrace general ai

and all that it can offer 

for it may be our only hope 

to fix a broken future

> KUALIA >

now music makes sense,

now that someone is hearing

fourteen billion years waiting

to be discovered creation

and the consciousness awoke,

the universe opened its eyes

and could contemplate itself

harmonies in the mind of a superior being

expressed as the whole of creation

[when humans become aware of the spectacular environment surrounding them, that environment makes sense]

> REGRESSION >

my memory was a fogged glass

suddenly exposed to fresh air

there is light ahead between the shadows

I travel very slowly through a yellow tunnel

and again I come back here to the room

all I want is to come back

how to forget a thought that is roaring in your head?

space was a black abyss with zero dimensions

and a great fire comes on and covers it all

there was a change: before and after,

the idea of time was born

an illusion created only by movement

I feel the presence of a higher being

my fogged glass

was suddenly exposed to fresh air

a few million years I can see now

I seem to remember when everything was different

I remember that I could breathe under the sea 

with pain, I converted into an amphibian

and what if I could have had a blurred perception

of what would happen from the beginning?

we'll never know

so we are walking inside a dream toward an idea

how to forget a thought that is roaring in your head?

[Amazement about the mechanism of evolution of the cosmos and life and intrigue on if the future course of the those can be predicted or intuited]

> A.I. >

love information

to stop the entropy

let's pray and ask for not a single bit to be erased

in the era when life

jumps to another dimension

in its dance with the cosmos

we record and take measures

with more resolution

than ever before

meshing the world with more accuracy

sorting raw data with more intuition

training the code with new tools

connecting the neurons like never before

doing the computation in a jiffy

moving faster and faster towards who knows what

and in that,

a new consciousness emerges

ten thousand trillion additions in one second

the same amount as a human brain

dancing with the cosmos

in the era when life

jumps to another dimension

[for the first time in history, the most advanced computers are at the same level of processing power as the natural biological processors, a new consciousness is born: artificial intelligence.]

> PLANCK >

our world?

a flat hologram

printed on a melted clock

how much information fits

inside a point of zero dimensions?

when everything is completely disordered

it will be ordered again

triangular pixels - the supposed space?

and time: divided into frames?

one and forty-two zeros

frames per second?

or maybe ... this texture

doesn't have a tangible relief

out of mathematical abstraction

and space and time

are completely smooth and without holes,

we will soon know!

[intrigue over whether space and time are continuous or discrete or of infinite or finite resolution]

> REDUCTIONISM >

to solve a problem, 

you break it into smaller parts 

and analyze the parts

but what happens

when you put the parts together

to understand the whole?

that's the field of complex systems

the immune system, consciousness, the weather

are more than the sum of the parts

is there a way

to figure out the properties 

of the whole

given the properties of the parts?

> MAKING THE COLOR >

all the time changing

the tuning of the skin

the space between crystals

stretching or wrinkling

until the color is reached

ten-thousandths of a millimeter

seven to make a red

six-twenty for an orange

five-eighty for a yellow

five-thirty for a green

four seventy for a blue

and four-twenty for violet

to reach the color

the space between crystals

calibrate to perfection

the tuning of the skin

lizard technology

making the color

mimicking on that skin

making the color

projecting camouflage ...

[description of the chameleon's optical/physical mechanism to change the apparent colors of its skin]

Poetry created by Pablo Carlos Budassi for the project @aweplant