In The Meadow Of Night

By Richard Lung

Society grows ever more vulnerable in its folly. Human self-harm threatens the survival of the race and our fellow creatures. No amount of dystopian science-fiction or satire can shake the pathological blunderings of governments. Yet the beauty of creation can make makers or poets of our-selves. And if we can not cure the human condition, we can at least laf (or laugh) at its absurdities, not least in one-self.

One could not hope to change things for the better with verses. However, I did try to make these verses better, as good poets generally do. Most poems are short. Not so, the long first two poems, which are revised and up-dated versions of narrative verse, that I put on one of my web-sites.
The quickest way to get a hint of the range of topics is to look at the titles of the 160 poems listed in the table of contents, that begins the free sample.
I hope kind readers will find this great variety of thought and imagination, information, fancy and speculation, well worth their precious time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Lung
• Release date: Apr 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311754882

Richard Lung

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.I have been the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform.While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....Authors have played a big part in my life.Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!

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In The Meadow Of Night.

Contents

part one: allure

exotic energy

alienated

iced cherry water

the stars my detestation

facades of the gods

pyramid power

the visitation

horoscope kaleidoscope

centaur

to dispel the myth

drop-out

a hard rain

lunar periods

lunatik

first in the moon

home-bound

spectator and participant

the daystar is solaris

eye of heaven

from the sea star

Voyager eyes

little surprises

Thwing is not mocked

Sissys synchronicity giggles

Voyager One

solitude

we are alone

when love is lost

The Galileans

Plan 9 from outer space

Atlan

When Worlds Collide

bloodstones

one two

plague of the fire-flies

unearthly messenger

comet strike

burlesque

love above!

the flying man

The Wheels Of Chance/The Time Machine

those alchemists again

the time machine hits limbo

the wheels of reels

riddle of the sphinx

a slight compass error

refit

Zondik speaks

part two: endeavor

on Demopolis

in the scroll forest of Aviopolis

the emperor

the great game

Peenemunde

the Channel gun

NATO secretly knew of Stalins last war

the sin by which the angels fell

are we not men?

space dog

NASA bagatelle

Grub Street

utopia 1956

the space age

back to the feature

not in the script

flying saucers from outer space

the sound-effects apprentice

forbidden planet

money spinner

atoms for peace

Fylingdales

resonance

year of horrors

nuclear winter

the radioactivists

the Age-team

orbitration

UFO

masonic funeral music

decommissioned

femme fatale

cloud mother-of-pearl

gambling life

the pink and white blues

living in Cornwall

mans divorce from nature

nuclear family

1970 by Gorge Irwell

got your flu mask?

the strange invaders

the peace of the worlds

the hill-isle pool

afore ye go

the British islets

the Anglantis supersticon

vested interests

when the wife left

pigeons

the opening is closed

not waving but warning

part three: fate

starring 2001

the forgotten folk

the invaders

the Hawking directive

getting up

dream artist

storm below

living space

sparrow moon

till death us do party

for saints

airs and graces

the asteroid cowboys

Skarthi the murther

psychic detective

beware of siren voices

tourists

the natural contract

a continental

the bathyscope

left to ones own devices

biot and his robots

WE

stroke

virgins

test-tube baby

spaced-out

the world is your lobster

suggestion

invasion of the mind snatchers

the ship is wrecked

at 3e point ov de3

I wake I sleep I die I live

no-one wants to play in goal

we amoebas evolve

the being of light

heleo

on jujment n'it

SHRINKing MAn

the invisible man

the interference of angels

forces beyond our control

a shiner

chairmen

crown of fire

hyper-massive

the meaning of life

the great divorce

the black dwarf

the revelers

the changling

where am I?

a dream of death?

a well (multi)versed mind

Schrödingers kat

Flash Gordon reminisces

Flashes last reminisce

a borrowed life

Hor, the hawk god

SF short stories:

an evil dream

the doors of progress

notes

acknowledgments

The lost world of typewriters

after-word

T'Wter Limits

guide to collected verse in five volumes by Richard Lung

guide to two more book series by the author:

Commentaries series;

Democracy Science series.

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In The Meadow Of Night

part one: allure

exotic energy

Nature is the mother of invention.

What wiser are we for fifty years of UFOs

traced to so many aeroplanes, air-ships,

planets, weather balloons, secret weapons,

space junk, or the odd mirage? Alien craft

can be faked like fairies in a foto.

Crop circles may not be alien landing grounds

but hoaxers leave no energy traces.

Mans more sensitive ancestors sited

megaliths and mounds near natural forces

along ley lines for a prehistoric grid

to light-up psychic states of consciousness.

In many-fractured Pennines, the Craven Hills,

favored by UFOs, were wick wit fairies.

These cave and pothole dwellers showed best

at midnight, melting into thin air at cock-crow.

Miners, of old, sought lodes from fairy lights

or fiery dragons guarding a treasure trove.

A mis-reported pilot began the legend

of flying saucers dazzled Kenneth Arnold.

An echelon of discoid tailless flyers flashed

blue-white mainly before changing from

hugging faulted terrain between three peaks

of the Cascades, where Mount Helens was

to erupt after lightnings and luminous

displays found in classical accounts

of Vesuvius night suns, sparking shields.

Glowing balloons crossed north-east America

at latitude and time of Tashkent earthquake.

Red, white or amber Chinese lanterns espied.

Ball lightning paraded down a plane aisle.

In hot dark down-pour, a window-slit blew

across room soap bubble burst a drain-pipe.

Fuzzy-edged fizzing and hissing or humming

bluish or yellow-white ball of orange core

writhed worms of light, in rapid short moves

seemed come out smooth over-all, as if

in the balance of probable pathways

like Feynman sub-atomic sum over histories

of light taking all possible pathways

escaped the quantum scale before ones eyes

to show light follow minimal path over-all.

Earth lights brain-stormed a religious revival

presaged quakes from Harlech to Barmouth

road on a fault-line for low-flying formations.

Two white lights wait upon one, blood red.

From sea to a mile inland mountain top,

an aurora borealis of arch raised the curtain.

Over cloud-capped summit, a frame of light

to a black bottle with bright blue base

fountained rainbows of fire all sides the slope.

A rounded triangle changed chapel roof ends

and a great star flashed forth diamond-fashion.

Light columns spewed smoky vapor or light balls.

Eighty years on, in Cwm Canol, a sferes

purple fluorescence silently exploded

in shower of sparks to emerge a white disc.

A yellow-green light rose from quarry to clouds

coming down, near a road, rotating red

inside a brilliant white globe. Later,

the sky lit-up and a disc of spinning

multi-colored stripes flew near Meliden Hills.

Todmorden had over one hundred UFOs:

Tunneling thru mist, a giant soft light bulb,

with black hole beneath, slightly above ground

hover-crafted over wooden marker posts.

Two bleating sheep followed. Branches shook.

Witness ears popped. A terrified policeman

found himself parked further on, missing

the time. Swirls marked road. Hanging hugely,

red glow on top, bluish green below, a gold

shimmer of spinning top arched Rossendale.

Nature has its gyroscopes, from atomic spin

to the precession of planetary orbits.

The childs toy gyro is wilfully wonderful.

Earth lights with a Saturn ring field

electric versions of the gyro wheel.

Grey flying saucer revolving red glows

shot off circle flattened in red after-glow.

Crop circle stems weave into straw baskets

with base hard and dry from compression

and vapor suction by the vortex chimney.

Corn sheaves swathed in opposing rings show

counter-rotating sheaths of the vortex.

Only electrified twisters can descend.

A glow-orange saturn halted a generator,

on again, lightless from burnt-out wiring,

and generated branch-breaking wind-power.

Six beams of lightning struck the ground.

Heat wave shocked and paralysed farmer.

His attacking dog froze, dying from radiation.

This UFO rocked from side to side

as vertical rotors stabilize ships roll.

Conserving angular momentum

is mainly why a gyroscope's stable.

The saturn, changed glow-red, shot away.

Low pressure trofs, hot spots, air-flow eddies

over and around steeps, arbored corrals

whirlpool air. Glows, orange with water

vapor or other chemical colors, stir

in thunder-storms, power-line force fields,

falls and commotion of rivers, waves on rocks.

Thus charge-separated, atoms in a vortex

cascade ionization for a pinch effect

of their magnetic field: at lowered pressure

less electric resistance makes air fluoresce.

Rate of spin and ion content govern shape,

discoid or sferoid, conical or cigar.

A plasma vortex out-lasts ball lightning

drawing in air to replace consumed ions.

Suction makes observers feel light.

The funnel alters speech acoustics.

To Perth, bright light paced and lifted a car,

tearing off the roof rack, bursting a tyre,

to passengers distorted shouts and screams.

Ionizing gas radiates on a broad band

of frequencies, jamming radios and ignitions.

Masts, pylons, metals attract or repel plasma.

Pressure contrast dazed a stumbling eagle

flew at rival pulsating yellow monster,

with helicopter revvings high-pitched whine,

hovering over panic-stricken lambs.

Fluorescent lights softly hum but a vortex

is match for big generators or emits

shattering jet engine screech, up and down.

Noise level measures jet powers air-speed

excess over its plane or vortex slipstream.

Microwaves fired into small test chamber

of air at normal pressure create plasma fire;

splits, like ball lightning, and defies wind flow.

As if some out-size quantum tunneler,

thru ceramic board, it escaped the chamber

for few seconds after power off.

Aluminum dust detected rings.

Engineers wised Professor Ohtsuki

to dust circles in Tokyo underground.

Electric trains raise mini-vortices track-side

even triplet models of grouped crop circles.

Joined vortices pre-figured the plasma-

juggling theta pinch fusion design

with perimeter current round whole system.

Near ground, fast rotating domes in formation

spiralled grass flat with massive blast-offs

rapid climb into cloud, jetting white vapor.

From Close Encounters of the Third Kind

to encounters of the Earth lights kind,

space-ships are alien only as we to Earth.

Taking years to travel the solar system,

rockets over-shoot unless thrust decellerates

half-way between stops, at twice the time.

Near the Pinnacles of California,

light streaked and swirled, spreading

an apparent shock wave (as if massive)

until stopped without decelleration

(so of no mass) going into a spin

to dissipate energy. Conversely,

Sandy Kidd tried motor gyro alignments

to turn rotary to linear motion,

a literally revolutionary notion.

Suppose the ion-compacted region

of natures sky-ship, the plasma vortex, makes

light waves slower than tear-away electrons.

A flying lights shock wave could be

the bow wave of Cherenkov radiation.

Nuclear fission reactors emitted electrons

can out-speed light thru their water surround

to set off glowing light waves, like boat

bow waves moving faster than natural waves.

To forestall use of radioactive fission

as a trigger for nuclear fusion,

Helium-3 could be mined from the Moon.

In fusion, light elements or their isotopes

become ion gas at stellar temperatures.

Oxford first held plasma without a holder

vaporising at heat needed for fusion reaction.

A magnetic field pinch on charged particles

leaves research problem of plasma leakage,

illuminated, in early nineteen hundreds,

from Welsh mountain top bottle

of fiery out-pourings, perhaps a magnetic bottle

leaking plasma rainbows in wave-band

emissions across the spectrum?

Fusion designs have turned the bottle

into a closed tyre or kind of torus.

Low pressure inside involves fewer particles

to heat to the energy level of fusion,

tho reaction takes longer and must release

energy enuf to become self-sustaining

by holding temperature and magnetic field

for a continuous supply of power.

Natures electrified vortex stably holds

plasma. So, a plasma vortex may lead

to electro-magnetic powered and also

fusion-reactored gyroscopic propulsion.

Earth lights vortex-conserved plasma

for longer life appears alive, seeking out

lines of least electrical resistance.

Witnesses swore the lights interact

with them or their own electric fields.

Nelya Mikhailova registered bodily

extremes attracting and repelling

things not normally magnetic

maybe thru ionizing radiation.

Mind control of distinct brain waves

was first rigged to operate a light switch.

The mind might computer-regulate a gyro-

ship quick and versatile as