THE MIRACLE OF LIFE AND OTHER POEMS
The Miracle of
Life:
Creation and
evolution, which is valid?
Two cells
fused to become one,
within days
this cell becomes two, four,
eight,
sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four,
hundreds,
thousands,
millions,
billions, even trillions.
Within weeks
the multiplying
cells in
clusters travel through a
channel into a
permanent home-
a naturally
created home,
very un-usual
in form, design, and
shape.
A home where
the secret of life is
unlocked,
a home where
hidden and
wonderful
transformation of
little known
miracle develops
into a
phenomenon-
a bouncing
baby nine months, after.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!!
“A boy or a
girl?”
That’s the
question
everyone asks,
when a child is
born.
The journey to
this question
begins with
one-fifth inch
C shaped
embryo,
which becomes
manifest
under a scan
check,
forty-two days
after conception.
As delicate as
the embryo is-
within it, is
the genetic code-
Deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA)
located in
nearly every cell nucleus;
a replicable,
wonderful, and
a memory
micro-chips-
the
instruction manual for body
growth and
development.
Like a charted
course on a map or
a book with
chapters and
verses that
highlights a specific
theme and
character,
so with DNA.
With DNA body
development begins
with
differentiations,
as several
billion bases packed into
tens or
hundreds of thousands genes
in multiple
of twenty-three
paired
chromosomes
go into
action.
Retroflexed
DNAs begin to unwind,
individualization
takes place
as similar DNA
cells begin forming
different body
parts in a
harmonious ,
but significantly,
in
arithmetical progression
of addition by
increment or auxesis.
through
multiplication by growth,
division
through segmentation, and
subtraction
through elimination;
body structure
progresses from a
simpler or
lower form to a more
advanced,
mature, and
complex stage.
Touch your
head, close your eyes,
hold your
ears, raise your hands,
jump on your
legs;
shout with
your mouth,
sit down on
your buttocks.
Place hand on
your chest,
hold your
breath for seconds,
picture the
digestive tract from
mouth to the
abdomen.
Reflect on
reproductive organs-
penis, virginal,
and breasts;
imagine
several tens of glands with
thousands of
hormones they produce.
Examine the
circulatory system with
billions of
inter-connected veins or grids
that
transports blood and nutrients
to body parts.
Wait a minute,
as you brood on
the most important body fluid-blood-
a four
composite fluid-red, white,
platelets, and
plasma.
Think over
saliva- the hydrostatic
lubricant
that’s essential for digestion;
remember semen
and female egg-
life
perpetuating materials in humans.
Examine waste
management system-
the complex
process of waste
disposal from
the body;
look at
several activities of daily living-
sleeping,
eating, shower, toileting,
working,
exercise, sexual-relations.
Examine the
human brain-
the
fluid-filled cavities of-forebrain,
midbrain, and
hindbrain;
imagine its
specialized areas-
cerebellum,
cortex, stem, dura, and
basal ganglia.
How about the
lobes?
Frontal,
parietal, temporal, and
occipitals.
Have you ever
given thought to
this
three-pound-organ-seat of human
intelligence,
message creation, and
interpretation?
Have you ever
considered your
body
coordination, balancing,
and movement?
Have you ever
ponder over
your habit and
behavior, and
ask for the
responsible organ?
Can you
envisage a life without
writing and
documentation?
Can you image
a life
without mental
and
memory
ability?
What happens
to a life without
hearing, sight, thinking,
vocalization,
and
sound moral
composition?
Picture a life
without-love,
kindness,
peace,
altruism,
care, and gentleness.
These are few
viewpoints
that
constitute miracle called-
Man.
physiological,
anatomical, and
emotional
processes unfold
simultaneously
during the nine
month period;
a period
marked by gradual and
series of
physical and
chemical
developments.
As body grows,
so too, each
part does
even assumes
responsibility within,
in preparation
for life outside womb.
Each passing
week of
the thirty-six
to forty week
gestation
period comes
with
mouth-gaping development;
though, the
development and growth
aren’t rapid,
yet there are
landmark changes that
take place by
days and weeks
as body
continues to take shape
structurally
and emotionally.
Interestingly,
this biological
process within
may not be
fully
comprehended,
even with the
use of combined
advanced
technology of
Ultrasound and
Magnetic
Resonance now
use in cancer
treatment,
which may
someday applies
to study
pregnancy related issues.
Life
duplication and continuation
through
sexual-relations between
a man and a
woman explains
one of the
several wonders
in our cosmos.
Is man-a
product of-
creation or
evolution?
Did man has a
maker or
evolved
through the
natural
selection by mutation and
adaptation?
Have
survivalists or
proponents of
survival of
the fittest
theory answer certain
biological and
anatomical
questions
about human life?
As we ponder
over these questions,
let
creationists and evolutionists-
provide us
with more of sound
argument and
reasoning on this
miracle of
Life.
With
reasonable and sound
argument in
place-
man-the only
moral agent
in the
universe will certainly
give a sound
and meritorious
answer-to the
question:
creation or
evolution-
which is
Valid?
THE GOLDEN MOTHER
In her
stomach, I had lain for
three hundred
days,
a single, but
multi-purpose room;
there I slept
and played
there I ate
and bathed.
A blanket that
warmed me in winter,
the linen that
refreshed me in summer;
a protective
cover of all times and seasons,
a shield from
harm and disease.
A gymnasium of
every sort-
where I ran
and skipped,
where I
relaxed when wanted and
desired;
where I
changed body position,
whenever
necessary.
Her discomfort
was my comfort,
her varied and
numerous pains
gave way to my
happiness and
joy within.
Her groaning,
I care less to know,
her
overweight, the load I passed
over to her,
her swollen
legs and arms-
my waste she
carried.
Her arms my
couch and sofa of
three years,
her breasts-
my
never-run-out-food-pantry;
her legs the
spinning chairs
that always
put me to sleep.
Her laps I bed
wet for years,
her clothes I
turned to diapers
to hold my
waste;
her head-tie I
used as
handkerchief
to clean my face.
Her back-a
mobile crèche
with no equal;
her mouth-the
lullaby gramophone
devoid of
musical instruments,
yet unbeatable
by any world
class
musician.
My cries she
understands,
my pain, she
bears and soothes;
my joy we both
share-
when I smile,
she laughs.
My concern her
concern,
my emotions,
she reads easily,
my feelings,
she interprets
with
correctness.
Her name I
knew before
other names,
her voice, I
recognized with
distinction;
her face, the
first image ever
recorded in
mind.
When I play
she responds positively,
modest, yet
very inviting were
her challenges
for my growth and
development;
out of love,
she challenged me
to begin walk
step-by-step.
Challenged me
to crawl by
throwing dice
at me,
tasked me to
stand up
raising
objects atop of me;
tasked me to
walk by holding
my hands,
taught me how
to run
by running
with me.
From her I
learned the first
lesson of
life,
all-round
teacher in those
formative
years;
all-time
companion,
who does not
abandon
even in tough
times.
The inner room
counsellor-
who assures,
supports, and
defends;
shall I forget
you,
even with a
few failings
and noticeable
errors?
Never! Never!!
Never!!!
May you
continue to live,
let your pride
of motherhood
manifest to
ALL.
SARAJEVO-THE CITY THAT CHANGED
THE COURSE OF HISTORY
Located in
Sarajevo plains
within Dinaric
Alps in the Balkans,
surrounded by
several mountains-
Treskavica,
Bjelasnica,
Jahorina,
Trebevic, and Igma;
Sarajevo is a
city to behold.
Sarajevo-“the palace
in the plains”
a city of
four municipalities: old,
center, new
city and new Sarajevo;
a city with
centuries of historical
importance.
A city of many
and varied cultures-
more so, a city where ancient
civilization
co-exist with modernity-
that has
created a diversity
very uncommon
in the Balkans and
Europe.
Sarajevo-the
pride of Balkans,
the city of
Orthodox, Christians,
Islam,
Judaism, and Catholicism;
the “Jerusalem
of Europe and
“of the
Balkans.””
The heartland
of social and
cultural
activities of Bosnian
and
Herzegovina,
the hub and
epicenter of
Serbian
nationalism.
A city with a
strong passion
for freedom,
ready to go
extra mile to
defend her
freedom,
when under
threat.
The city of
wonders-
first in
Europe to “have
full-time
electric tram network”;
the city where
history is
always made,
the city where
earthshaking
events always
emanate.
Once upon a
time,
Sarajevo was a
sanjak
(district) of
Ottoman Empire,
at another
time, Sarajevo became
eyalet
(province) of Ottoman Empire;
in times
past-a vilayet of
Austria-Hungary
through 1878
Berlin Treaty.
For more than
seven decades,
Sarajevo was a
part of former
Yugoslavia,
the worst of
her struggles
took place in
early nineties
following the
one-thousand-
four-hundred-and-twenty-five-
day-siege by
Yugoslav People’s
Army.
But today, it
is a city
with her
destiny in her hands,
after
centuries of
struggle and
resistance from
several
foreign domination.
The
Bullets that Changed
the
World.
The day was
Sunday,
June 28, 1914,
the place is
Sarajevo,
the actors
were:
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand,
Sophie,
Duchess of
Hohenberg, and
Gavrilo Princip.
The event-the
assassination of
heir
presumptive to
Austria-Hungary
throne,
aftermath-the ultimatum-
handled down
to Sarajevo by
Austria-Hungary.
Result?
Diplomatic
crisis-among
European
powers,
the
outcome-the Great War or
World War One.
World War One!
Yes, World War
One;
what started
as a
punishment to
Sarajevo-
later turned
to a
conflagration
in Europe.
Europe became
divided
into: Axis and
Triple Entente-
voice of
reasoning and
tongues of
wisdom were lost-
because no one
was ready to
listen to the
other,
as each group
rolled out
war drums.
The four-year
Great War,
redefined the
world,
even, when it
seems a new
world was
created-
this
world lost its balance and gait
as soon as it
was created.
Unfortunately,
the Great War,
by all
standards is
worse than
Napoleonic
Wars of
1803-1815 that ravaged
Europe with
more than six million
harvests from:
battle fields
to diseases,
starvation, and other war atrocities.
The madness
and bloodbath
in Europe soon
spread,
other regions
around the globe
became
involved in the crisis
originally
from Europe or
once called
European affairs.
With what
outcome,
hundred years
after?
Catastrophe of
high
magnitude,
disasters-without-borders,
calamities,
tragic, and bizarre
events that
have defied
solutions.
Since World
War One,
human
civilization has come
under damaging
attack,
dis-order has
replaced
orderliness.
Relative
political stability of
several
centuries was
lost
overnight,
violent change
of government
by military
and revolutionary
forces became
a norm.
Even where representative
democracy
replaced dynasties,
the stability
and survival
of such
governments
is always
threatened by
military,
poverty, corruption, and
other social
evils, which post
1914 era
created with no cure.
Notwithstanding
scientific
feat of 20th
century,
regardless of
the two
commanding
ideologies-
capitalism and
communism-
that defined
mankind’s new
ways of life:
greed, deceit,
and corruption in
governments,
commerce and
businesses
have created
more
calamities for humankind;
today, more
people live
in poverty
than centuries
before 1914.
Even more
unfortunately,
is the new
found culture
that has
changed
human society
from care to
care less,
love to hate,
reasoning to
debate and
argument,
persuasion to
force,
violence and
bloodletting.
Worse still,
human society
replaced
negotiation by
force-it-down-throat,
and
from
brotherhood to
fanatical
nationalism.
As Sarajevo
commemorates
June 28, 1914-
the World will
never forget
the sour or
bitter taste
the day left
in its mouth.
Also, the
World will always
remember many
Sweeteners
it has taken
to reduce the
taste,
but the bitter
or sour taste
refused to
abate.
[The last
two items are a single poem; this work commemorates the
between
1914 and 1918.]
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