Terminal Geodesics

"Black Hole Sun, won't ya come?"

"What sort of dream is that, Odin? I dreamed I rose up before dawn to clear up Val-hall for slain people. I aroused the Einheriar, bade them get up to strew the benches, clean the beer-cups, the valkyries to serve wine for the arrival of a prince."  Skáldskaparmál

Sail away with me; come sail away with me; fight with, for, or against me with honor;

'Till Valhalla!

Rocking violently encased in metal on heavy seas, still safe, peacefully so; like some kind of Zen Buddhist Nazi... (peaceful frustration). The journey might kill us. Though We still get to go. That's what it means to fight, 'till Valhalla!

Our pilot may doubt us but not in our endings; there is no room for doubt come our last day. Come Valhalla!

Crushingly optimistic he's our steam roller baby. He pilots because he has to, because we are finite, Because the premise of our story is that it Begins and Ends no matter who's doing the writing or The Dying or finding or lying or even The Killing. Our course is set;

 'Till Valhalla!

Forget the word mistaken at your own peril on the open waters. Mistaken, this is a world full of Peril. Still, it matters for naught at The end, not for us princely warriors. There is a place where all geodesics Collide, where you and I can finally embrace without Malice. For where we would have arrived is Valhalla!  Great hall of the dead, where wars leaves its warriors to dine among gods and forget they were men.

Author's Note

Ending

Reviews

[Marianne Rose]

Without familiarity with either Norse mythology or black holes, I am still drawn in to the journey- this appeals to the warrior side of my nature, honor, questing, the way of loyalty among warriors who travel together. I am drawn to "there is a place where all geodesics collide, where you and I can finally embrace without malice." and to the beautiful culmination of our journey in the last line, a place where we dine among gods and forget we were men- there is such hope that comes from looking at our existence through the bigger picture of the cosmos, accepting we are just a small part of a greater unfolding. I also love your comments about event horizons and black holes in response to one review- this helps me to understand more of the poem's dramatic context. Well done, thank you!

[Davidgeo]

Thanks for all them words you wrote me in that review you just left me. Thanks for them things.

[Alfred Kukitz]

You offer an unusual and unique bend in the philosophy of poetry. I recall Odin in Norse mythology who hung for several days after he pierced himself so he could learn magic.

I felt a kinship with him after I wrote: I pierced the black violent veil of my soul..........

Interesting write,

Regards,
Al

[Davidgeo]

'I felt a kinship with him after I wrote: I pierced the black violent veil of my soul.........."
read more'I felt a kinship with him after I wrote: I pierced the black violent veil of my soul.........."

What the hell are you talking about?

[Davidgeo]

'I felt a kinship with him after I wrote: I pierced the black violent veil of my soul.........."
read more'I felt a kinship with him after I wrote: I pierced the black violent veil of my soul.........."

What the hell are you talking about?

[GalaxyGhost]

I really enjoyed reading this as it is very interesting and it immediately pulled me in.

[TL Boehm]

I've always been fascinated with both black holes and Norse mythology. Never seen them together on a page - a sinister mix. Only one of Loki's own would take on such a thing.
So many of us circle the event horizon - shadowed and stretched in to an echo existence, craving absolution or the void.
This poem would lend itself nicely to a longer work. A twisted novel perhaps.

[Davidgeo]

If there is an epilogue for this universe... beyond those event horizon's is where it lies. Beyond the understanding of, well, understanding I guess. Everything may just be a series of black holes... universe's just collapsing into black holes and expanding out of the singularity on the other end. We may have been in one the hole time, our universe may be just another singularity expanding out of a rabbit hole into and out of another rabbit hole, etc., ad infinite. No one knows what happens beyond the event horizon or if the singularity is even a 'place' (it's probably not as we know it), but it does smell an awful lot like what things may have been like before the big bang... when the mass of the entire universe occupied the space of an atom. There was no time because everything was immediately connected and instantaneous, infinite density - the place where the theory of the small meets the theory of the large and it's not only proved difficult to understand but it looks like it may be impossible to ever know.... it is beyond the reach of human range. We cannot run experiments, we cannot recreate those conditions on any scale. There are begging's and endings that we cannot comprehend, we don't even know if those are absolute terms.... I highly doubt there was ever a start and highly doubt their will ever be an end. I'm okay with not knowing either way. Makes it interesting. Makes for wonderful story telling devices...

[Barbara Walker]

And he's just scratching the surface? How many lifetimes for indepth? All of this makes me sit here (or there, or there or even there!) with this typically agape expression of how truly unintelligent I am. Thanks for the reminder. I forget so easily... Closed-observing black holes... or not.

[Davidgeo]

Being stupid just means we have more things to occupy our time with. I like not really knowing. There is no limit to ignorance... and I love it.

[Barbara Walker]

Sometimes, you make me giggle like a school girl. I just feel some joy bubbling up and I almost glance around, to check if Im in trouble!

[Davidgeo]

You may be in time... never envy the devil in public. It rarely ends well.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Time traveling pirates! Damn! Another Pirate poem! I'm trying to make a pirate story but you just keeping throwing this stuff at me! Yeah ill give you full marks. I know that's what you want dick. Lol

[Davidgeo]

No pirates here, well, not the pirates you're thinking of anyway. This is Viking and pagan land. You missed the point fully it seems... it's why I will not see you, come Valhalla!!

[Davidgeo]

The Norse gods of thunder do not approve of your review.... Odin is disgusted.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Vikings are evolved pirates. Like monkeys turning into humans. I saw that steam roller in there.

[Davidgeo]

You have that backwards.... Vikings came long before pirates.

[Davidgeo]

Odin remains dissatisfied.

[Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse]

Imma go read a book...

[Davidgeo]

Watch the video on black holes and events in space time.... this one has a lot more to do with physics than Vikings or pirates. Odin isn't so mad,... nothing really means what it says in real time.

[Elise Anton]

I can say sublime can't I????

[Davidgeo]

Yeah, but, it's still a s****y review

[Elise Anton]

Hey I read it. I have blokes next door who think Sunday morning at 6.00am is as a good time as any to build their monstrous town-houses. You're lucky you got that, instead of what they're getting outside my window. S****y is better, trust me.

[Davidgeo]

I sell dogs with cancer to happy children.... so, yes. I agree.

[Elise Anton]

They are now 'enjoying' some weird elevator music, a speaker out the window full blast. They keep looking this way and frowning. Wonder why?

[Davidgeo]

Cause they think it's 2003.... god damn time traveling robots always covering up their tracks... pretending their Australian or Guadeloupian or whatever your Kangaroo jockey asses calls yourselfs these days... In the words of a wonderful lady "black bags penis... lamp. Try story"... I love auto correct. It's okay that your from Norway.

[Elise Anton]

I'm kinda liking Norway, more time I spend there. What part was auto correct?

[Davidgeo]

lamp... try story. Black bags penis.

[Elise Anton]

Haha I Googled all the above together and got "Penis facts: Everything you need to know." Priorities, right?

[Davidgeo]

We all end up the same way... that whole... black s**t thing... or white whole? Maybe that yellow hole or the toilet... it's all mostly just about terminal things. And stupid people. Stupid entities. And stuff.

[Elise Anton]

And stuff... After all is said and done, 'and stuff' is all that is left really. And black holes. Which leave no stuff at all.

[Davidgeo]

I see you are not familiar with Hawking radiation... everything gets left behind baby doll.... we may never know why, but we do know that much. Nothing is forever... not even forever (even black holes do evaporate... allegedly)

[Davidgeo]

So I guess you could say.. forever is not a f*****g thing.

[Elise Anton]

Obviously not. Thus they leave no stuff at all, not even evidence of themselves... Today works though. That's here there and eveywhere.

[Davidgeo]

There is a place where no history escapes. Don't quote that, you may owe some money. Darling.
read moreThere is a place where no history escapes. Don't quote that, you may owe some money. Darling.