T is for Time Machine

Can you imagine time travel? Race through the time stream or vortex in electric blues and greens. Who decides the colour of time?

I'm sure you have seen plenty of movies and TV shows about time travel, with elaborate machine, telephone boxes, and such; maybe even read a book or two. The concept is fascinating and Wells' novella has been made into radio dramas and four different movies.

The Time Machine, which was written by H. G Wells in 1895 and my definitive version is the 1960 movie starring Rod Taylor and Alan Young. I have also read the novella at least three times. The story is of an unnamed scientist who builds a time machine and travels far into the future, the year 801,702 to be exact, where man has become child-like and innocent (the Eloi) and under the control of another race of humans called the Morlocks, who are subterranean. The Time Traveler learns the fate of humanity, but rather than return to his time, bring a bit of knowledge to the Eloi, the race of above race of child-like man, and thus build a new world out of what was left.

It is included in the Dying Earth subgenre, where the earth is naturally dying (End of Time), and not caused by an apocalyptic situation. It goes as far back as 1805 with Le Dernier Homme but Jean-BapisteCousin de Grainville, a story about the last man on a sterile earth..

It poses an interesting question by the end of the book and movie; what book(s) would you take to help rebuild mankind?

The Traveler's Path

Not standing still, but always moving

time has a way of never resting.

A traveler hurling through time,

beyond anything he knows.

Time has a way of never resting.

onward it travels, passing

beyond anything he knows

when the world has begun to die.

Onward it travels, passing

through minutes and hours

when  the world has begun to die;

after eons have passed.

Through minutes and hours,

now more than seconds and

after eons have passed

mankind dwells within the garden.

Now more than seconds and

the serpent is revealed twisted, perverted; and

mankind dwells within the garden,

and is mere fodder for the serpents, the Morlocks.

The serpent is revealed twisted, perverted; and

raising mankind to like cattle,

and is mere fodder for the serpents, the Morlock;

is the future of the human race.

Raising mankind to be like cattle--

A traveler hurling through time,

is the future of the human race,

not standing still, but always moving.

Letter T: Of Queens and Seekers

And now for today’s prompt (optional, as always). Today, I challenge you to take a chance, literally. Find a deck of cards (regular playing cards, tarot cards, uno cards, cards from your “Cards Against Humanity” deck – whatever), shuffle it, and take a card – any card! Now, begin free-writing based on the card you’ve chosen. Keep going without stopping for five minutes. Then take what you’ve written and make a poem from it.

T is for Tarot 

I use my tarot deck so little lately, that I figured it wouldn't might a little action. My deck was given to me by a very dear friend, Sandra. The Witches Tarot is a beautiful and rich deck, and it seems to have a sense of humour. As I was shuffling this card popped out...

The Queen of Cups needs another card to modify it. The base meaning is that there are emotions tied to the concept or person associated with this card, and these feeling have started a path/journey towards the modifying card. My modifying card is this...

The seeker means a search for the light, knowledge, seeking guidance from the ancestors. How fitting, Dear Readers. How fitting!

So, I wrote for about five minutes and came up with this...

In a world of seekers there are also queen. you see I know both the type. The royalty that rules the land and the quiet reserved hermit, studying with their own little realms. But can a hermit be a queen of their own study. The matriarch of the library. I guess it stands to reason that maybe a queen can also be a hermit, a seeker, a quiet wanderer of amongst the tome and tarots. Maybe either could learn a bit more of the truths behind each of the others world. A queenly who learns from the past will rule wisely and with a gentleness, while a hermit can makes the laws of sight and mind work to the benefit of their world, the world as a whole. I think that is the real power, knowing that you can be both while still being you.

Of Queens and Seekers

Queens--

the bearer of cups,

a seeker in her own rite

and she has chosen her path.

A scholar within her own realm,

strength she has to rule with a firm grasp

if she chooses

that she must, yes

but will she?

Seekers--

the scholars be

royalty of their own

small microcosm

of study's and libraries

where they make the law

of books and scrolls of parchment

they too can choose

will choose.

Will they?

For one to exist,

there has to be another, yes?

Yes,

yet no less important

are either side be.

To be a scholarly queen

is more powerful than just

a reigning monarch.

Or a queenly scholar

bringer of knowledge 

head raised high.

Together

as one

 they can make the whole.

Ruling--

by hearts of the gentle

and hands of the strong.