AN EPIC POEM
A New World Poem
August 1997
Part I. Departing Old Continentis
In seventeen hundred and sixty-six
Two brothers lived in the kingdom of Ias
Where spreading throughout were momentous thoughts
As lands were discovered across the oceans
Creating such visions in many men’s minds
That the brothers decided to seek new horizons.
Kreation and Growth were the brother’s names
Ias was in the south of Old Continentis
Ruled by kings for hundreds and hundreds of years
As news arrived of the lands from sources
Kreation and Growth knew they now must chance
And leave Old Continentis for new senses.
Why leave their home lands
Was it for monies
For discoveries
Leaving oppressions
Why now from Ias
To New Continentis?
Part II. Traveling to New Continentis
That year the brothers Kreation and Growth
Left the port Momanddad in the north
On board the new rough boat Nowthislife
Manned by a mixed crew, some very tough
Others kind, loving, with much warmth
And the captain was a man named Timeth.
A far and through stormy seas Nowthislife traveled
Along the way lightning splintered the deck’s wood
But after constant effort and Timeth’s guide
And much swaying windward and leeward
A crippled bird and a half-moon signaled
Their arrival on time at the new land.
Good feelings of new
Of exploration
New dawns radiant
Senses in change
Leading to good, to what?
To new intellects
Traveling onward.
Part III. Arriving at New Continentis
Nowthislife sailed into Port Onyourown
A bustling, energetic harbor town
Full of danger and opportunities
Not the same comforts in Old Continentis
Kreation and Growth walked about Port Onyourown
With only themselves from what had once been.
Port Onyourown streets were full of travelers
From Old Continentis and many other places
There for the same reasons as Kreation and Growth
Hoping that Port Onyourown would lead to wealth
But Port Onyourown was only a beginning
To different destinations and an ending.
Once here, the best choice
For all travelers
Is to now depart
To continue on
To the better place
By work to inner worth.
Part IV. Building Their Farm
Port Onyourown was not the destination
So the brothers then set off for their dream
They continued to their farm called Thisisme
They arrived in the County Naandnurture
Where land for Thisisme is located
And the brothers could begin their future.
Arriving at their land in Naandnurture
Kreation and Growth set about to build
A strong foundation to support the structure
That would become their farm called Thisisme
They worked diligently as they knew they must
To bring about a completed edifice.
Disorder can reign
So can dirty clouds
Imagine what can be
To get happiness
A strong solitude
Is the sought attitude.
Part V. Harvesting
Farm Thisisme is now quite productive
With new fields under cultivation
Giving satisfaction to many needs
That Kreation and Growth started with
Now some forty or more years ago
In the Kingdom of Ias, Old Continentis.
Fruits, grains, meats, and vegetables produced
Year after year for a lifetime by Thisisme
Many benefitted, including Kreation and Growth
By Thisisme’s long productivity
The farm became a model for all to see
Meeting requirements in New Continentis.
Potentialities abound
Each and every day
Hold on to those met
Substance will follow
From deep, deeply down
The source of much known.
Part VI. Community
Thisisme has become of community
Kreation and Growth have made the marks
To look out about Thisisme you will see
Something new, permanent, of wide acceptance
Very much a part of the entire county
A major missing state in Old Continentis.
Kreation and Growth have been thinking back
On their journey from Ias to Thisisme
And their parents and neighborhood left behind
How natural it now seems for this trip
For them to have taken as they have grown
And moved surely through adulthood to full age.
Eminence now glows
In some catholic way
All men can be proud
Only they must decide
For a universe
Of certain heaven.