Humanity, Here We Come!

• Artist: Toastbusters
• Description: Please see the submission for the real description. A pox upon ye, 500 character limit!
• Date: 07/15/2008
• Tags: lighthouse evolve humanity poetry literature

Lighthouse Poetry - if you're not sure what that is, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with this esoteric art prior to judging my piece.
This poem is not to be read as seen - in fact, it may require some work from you, the reader! Hurrah! Take a look at each letter - look at the form, look at the shape, look at the placement. Note its size, it's feeling - each letter is a universe, each letter is a lighthouse.
Next, put your focus on the relationship between each character; how is an 'e' like an 'o'? Build your world, build their realities and their past and their future.
And now let it sink -
Let it become a part of your realm, and a part of yourself. Look at how much light each fraction of the poem casts upon a likewise portion - break it down, build it up. The message is there, find it, and don't let go.

Thank you.

e- vol v e

Comments

[Toastbusters]

It looked much better on paper.
It lost something in the translation to digital.

If it helps, I didn't really write this, but constructed it by blanking out sections of a newspaper article.

I haven't seen that interpretation from anyone before though... It's intriguing!

[Astaire]

estly, you can do better.

(Sorry, the commenting system cut me off.)

[Astaire]

Hm. For a piece of lighthouse poetry, I don't really feel that you captured evolution. I mean, all you did was make the second v smaller, and put a hyphen where evolve normally has a syllabic break.

Interesting, though, that you seem to imply that evolution is "one step forward, too steps back" with your construction of the word.

I'm glad to see that people are trying something different than the usual "abab" rhyme scheme style of poetry, but hon