UNWALLED UNIVERSITY

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Beauty
BEAUTY IS A BY-PRODUCT

The sun did not intend to be a glory when it set.
The purpose of a thundercloud is just to get things wet.
The moon revolves around the Earth and sets the night ashine
Without a thought of you and your nor yet of me and mine.
The planets, stars, and galaxies, move in their cosmic slot
Of mystics and musicians here on Earth, they have no thought.
Gravity
Velocity
NECESSITY
And only incidentally
Felicity

The plumage of the Egret, the Peacock and the Wren;
The sway of swan a-swimming; the lark above the glen;
The tender fluff of kittens chasing butterflies on flowers;
Or sultry glow of tiger’s eyes that burn from jungle bowers;
The flying leap of antelope and other things that race;
The streaming of a horse’s mane; a spider spinning lace..
Ornithology
Entomology
Biology
NOT a planned anthology
Of color and grace.

The verdant green of foothills, the chalky cliffs of Dover,
The distant peaks of purple that you’ll find the whole world over,
Moraines and plaines, and tors and crags and cliffs, stark as a shriek;
Escarpments steep where cascades leap, and desserts, dry and bleak;
Chasms deep where glaciers sleep and, on the ocean’s floor,
Drowned sea-mounts with valleys that go down a mile or more…
Geology
Seismology
Mineralogy
Not a mere apology
For majesty.

And when MAN builds he figures cost, materials, and time,
Technocracy is not concerned with making things sublime.
Yet gears, for very symmetry, could shame a flake of snow.
Tezla coils and plexiglass can rival nature’s show.
The lights that dot the darkened land, like fields of fallen stars;
Computer parts, machines that span the space from here to mars…
Electronically
Bionically
And very, very ironically…
BEAUTIFUL!

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