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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mistaken</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.<br>Clenched in Snowball Earth's ice viced grip, <br>survivors hid, shunning sterile shores<br>and as eternal winter melted, drip by drip, <br>a forest stitched the silty oceans' floors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crinkled spindles and leafy globes open, <br>man-high, thumbnail thin, sentinel fronds.<br>Multicellular life, freshly woven, <br>modules linked and branched with fractal bonds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too dark, too deep, to be photosynthetic, <br>nutrients were gleaned through membranes fluted.<br>Strewn in an unseen ghostly aesthetic, <br>not plants but animals, static, rooted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In places, Earth's belches and coughed ash<br>sank, killed, coated and cast still life tableaux.<br>Sediments weighted and imbued the cache, <br>layer on layer of time-locked plateaus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hundreds of millions of years rearranged Earth's wrinkles, <br>dipped or exposed, buckled crusty scabs.<br>Pink and white volcanic ash sprinkles<br>fleck glacier scrubbed pitched grey slabs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Erosion exposes a false beginning, <br>fossils of creatures which nature scrapped.<br>Immobility jinxed their innings, <br>condemned as unable to adapt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minimal repetitive genetic commands, <br>holdfasts marked by circle and groove, <br>hint at no scope to meet the demands<br>of competitors, newly evolved to move.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Failed experiment thwarted by simplicity, <br>a ‘survival of the fittest' flashpoint.<br>Outcasts' remains with unknown affinity<br>on the sculpted rocks of Mistaken Point.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.<br>Perched above the Atlantic, fog-wrapped, <br>fractured cliffs concede a slant ledge outpost.<br>Raked by winter's storm waves, white-capped, <br>mariners thread rocks on a shipwreck coast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Seabirds on the port bow' the seaman bawled, <br>a sign of land near, though in truth his ears, <br>could hardly pick their shrieks from the howling squall.<br>The mate held their course, discounting his fears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For hadn't they already rounded the Cape, <br>heading north for wide ocean, abrim with cod.<br>Guiding stars blinked through the fog's cold drape.<br>Watch over, the seaman slept slickered and shod.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But rocks slice schooners as schooners slice waves.<br>Before the unforgiving night finished, <br>the elements sent several poor men to sea graves <br>and swept two to a land ledge, diminished.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mate and the seaman lay prone and spent, <br>shaken, grieving for those thought forsaken.<br>The wind dropped low to a moan, in lament, <br>the mate whispered 'seems I was mistaken'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their hands traced rock indents as some strange braille<br>and dawn's first horizontal rays, <br>struck reliefs which told a fossilized tale<br>of a wrong way course from Pre-Cambrian days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By mid-morning, the mate and the seaman were found.<br>By noon, they'd been saved from their plight.<br>Hauled by hemp rope to the cliff top's safe ground<br>on a day when a rare sun shone bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While waiting for rescue, they'd lain on a page, <br>a fragment of Life's chronicles disjoint, <br>a glimpse of a flourishing singular stage, <br>on the sculpted rocks of Mistaken Point.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q>
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Clenched in Snowball Earth's ice viced grip, 
survivors hid, shunning sterile shores
and as eternal winter melted, drip by drip, 
a forest stitched the silty oceans' floors.

Crinkled spindles and leafy globes open, 
man-high, thumbnail thin, s..."></div>
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