Sonneta for the Israel/Hamas War

Exposition=MC 2. Micro Macro Creation Crisis commentary

“Here you will read theory of universal creation/and death of children in the desert/life in creation and tragic devastation/On my mind billions of years/our universe in the making/while in the Gaza Strip fears/a million children in fear are quaking/The universe continues inflation at the speed of light/while children face death as human shields /in the terrorists’ fight/in Israel and Hamas tragic plight.

This is Yin Yang poetry of universal proportions/and children’s horrific death

from war’s evil distortions/Our universe continues to ‘evolve’/while in Gaza a million children’s young lives ‘devolve’.”

The Gaza Strip, about the size of the city of Philadelphia, has around 2.1 million people. Over half the population is under 18 years of age. There are over 300 miles of tunnels dug beneath hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings. Many tunnels are booby trapped. The Yin Yang symbol represents opposites within one circle: night and day, hot and cold, male and female, negative and positive. expansion and contraction. Each side contrasts and complements the other.

Sturm und drang is German for confusion, or storm and stress.

Development: A Symbiotic Singularity Synopsis

It began in great solitude and silence

A moment of light , an invisible spark

An explosion of unbelievable violence

A universe not yet a universe—darkness

Light. Primordial photons soon coalesce

Atoms grow, nucleus, proton and neutron.

Growth in numbers cosmologists guess

Inflation theory seems to think on and on

Billions of galaxies form light years apart

Chaos theory? Did laws of physics plan it?

Many different sizes and types of stars start

Many moons form around billions of planets

Einstein’s theory frames modern inquiry

String particles tie it to Quantum Theory

Guileless in Gaza

We have not very long to live—I think

Death not far away for millions of children

Loving living little ones are lost today

The fabric of our souls is soon worn away

Incomprehensible violence is now seen

Massacres murders decapitation of infants

We tried couldn’t reach you or loved ones

We cried out loud sobbing and screaming

Hearts broken sad songs and words spoken

Your lives on fire flaming before our eyes

We have not very long to live—I think

Before bombs fall and drones discover us

We need electric power and water to drink

We have not very long to live—I think.

Recapitulation: Yin Yang Sturm und Drang

On the Gaza Strip the number of deaths mount

Women and children used as human shields

Everyday there grows a higher death count

Inside buildings then up to heaven’s fields

Told to head southward with no way out

No water no electricity no food no doubt

Rockets overhead, in tunnels underground

Innocent citizens tremble at the sound

Over a music festival a horrible pall

Tanks line up on the northern border

Thousands of troops await the next order

Deaths of countless innocents hang over all

Total number of hostages is still unknown

Death totals on both sides have grown.

Coda, from Pablo Neruda’s The Creation

“… in the great solitude a howl began,

something rolled crying, the shadows

half-opened, rising alone as if the planets

sobbed and then the echoes rolled, tumbling

and tumbling until what was born was silent”.

“ My soul is distressed/My mind is at war.”

—Bob Dylan, now in his 80s, still performing.