<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tapped or Trapped or Rapped?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world, when wide, demanded empires vast.<br>Economies of scale appeared to be<br>uneven, and applied imperfectly, <br>as sound and fury buttressed ruling caste.<br>But times have changed, fresh horoscopes are cast, <br>Pluto downsized, Galileo, Copernicus, Vinci, <br>excommunicating Ptolemy.<br>This does not mean we’ve banished to the past<br>self-centered viewpoints, understood at last<br>small rhymes with beauty, ending poverty. <br>Newton, then Einstein, new technology<br>engendered, superstitions overcast.<br>One constant challenge cannot be bye-passed, -<br>Man’s nature alters slowly, ‘progress’ fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man’s nature alters slowly, but Mankind<br>is t[r]apped within a spiral none control.<br>Few men pretend to understand the role<br>they’re meant to play, and ‘constantly’ we find<br>old infrastructures fissure. Though the mind<br>grows outwards while the race would race to bowl<br>all trace of old established tenets. Soul –<br>if soul there be – seems out at ‘see’, purblind<br>become, while standards must be redefined<br>against a background where, from pole to pole, <br>the sole remaining constant – change – no goal<br>dares guarantee, with ‘Change’ ‘Chance’ intertwined.<br>Interdisciplinary walls fall fast, <br>Past’s foundation bulwarks overcast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>12 December 1991 revised 12 October 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426072" data-title="Tapped or Trapped or Rapped? de Jonathan Robin" data-description="The world, when wide, demanded empires vast. Economies of scale appeared to be uneven, and applied imperfectly, as sound and fury buttressed ruling caste. But times have changed, fresh horoscopes are cast, Pluto downsized, Galileo, Copernicus, V..."></div> </div> </div>

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