CHAPTER 1
WONDER OF WONDERS
Om
I have never ceased to wonder
At the Nature’s wonderful propensities
To create, to care or scare
To grow, develop or snare
To attract, repel or neither
Yet go on further and farther
Playing hide and seek cleverly
Pushing to and fro meaningfully
Changing form frequently
From infinity to eternity
Nay eternity to infinity
In timing and sequence, precisely
In measured steps & space ceaselessly
Living and nonliving arbitrarily!
From time immemorial continuously.
Oh! How it fascinates me
And awakens deep curiosity
To know more and more and more
Of its secret ways and properties
And about its astounding qualities Seeking unity in diversity
Nay admiring amazing diversity
In underlying unseen! unity.
And as I probe the matter
further and further
My neuro cells generate thoughts that wander
far and near, here and there almost everywhere
Some times ‘looking’ at the ‘nano’ (s) inside all
At other times at grand phenomena far beyond all
Peeping through microscope or telescope
Virtually trying to fathom Nature’s horoscope
My eyes widen and my heart begins to throb
In an effort to visualize and unravel its mystries
And find it indeed very difficult to cope
What with happenings since time began
and with those yet to be ; and great hope
In a Nature pregnant with possibilities.
Look! At the chemicals in the so called
nonliving ‘mode’
Their molecules, atoms, electrons, protons
and neutrons
Or for that matter quarks, lepton, bosons
and other ‘ons’
Oh! Why they attract and why they repel ?;
unite or pull apart at all !
How and why arrays and arrays of atoms upon atoms
In this way or that way form such beautiful patterns?
How each atom knows exactly where to fit in !
And at what angle and in what number to begin
forming a molecule and joining in a particular way
To make or assume some particular form or forms.
Oh! Why atoms and within them electrons
and protons
Keep vibrating energetically as if ‘dancing’
all the time
Like Lord “Shiva’s divine ‘Tandav’”
once upon a time
And these naughty guys-electrons
keep jumping --- from time to time .
Ay! from shell to shell or when ever they get a chance-
Forthwith racing alone or together for creating a current,
generating force –energizing, initiating actions and reactions-
giving, saving or taking life .
Oh! If you turn to the other world
and in it to those
on the borders of living and nonliving
worlds –
the notorious Virus or their nearest
living ‘guys’
the unicellular organisms like diatoms
& bacteria
and just let your eyes roam and I bet
you will be
wonderstruck by their beautiful
architectural designs
in so simple, symmetrical & functional,
amazing styles.
How clever are these viruses, you know,
remaining passive when time is not on their side
And becoming active instantly when opportunity knocks the door--
‘take off’ ( like a Rocket from launcher type body in some cases)
and ‘land’ like a rocket or a helicopter on its ‘pad’ on host surface
entering like a Trojan horse- injecting their fighting force ‘DNA’ inside
an unsuspecting enemy host ; and once in , fight , or
become dormant and wherever and whenever possible
defeat & control the enemy cells of the so called ‘higher’! forms
unless and until the host somehow
succeeds In outwitting and getting rid of them from their inside .
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NB :
Any keen observer of Nature is bound to be fascinated and wonder struck by the
ways and styles with which the Nature fashions its ‘World’ – the whole of universe
and follows the fundamental Laws it has chiseled for itself meticulously, timely
precisely and aesthetically in ‘,awesome’ manner .which amaze and astound us
and leave us spell bound .,
This poem introduces the universal tendencies and peculiarities which assume
the form of principles and propensities visible every where if one has eye to see .
In the past philosophers have tried to do so .and given rise to myths and legends
in an effort to explain mind boggling phenomena but today scientists are trying to
appreciate facts and expound them rationally .
S.K.B
5/108 SFS mansarovar
Jaipur
Om
I have never ceased to wonder
At the Nature’s wonderful propensities
To create, to care or scare
To grow, develop or snare
To attract, repel or neither
Yet go on further and farther
Playing hide and seek cleverly
Pushing to and fro meaningfully
Changing form frequently
From infinity to eternity
Nay eternity to infinity
In timing and sequence, precisely
In measured steps & space ceaselessly
Living and nonliving arbitrarily!
From time immemorial continuously.
Oh! How it fascinates me
And awakens deep curiosity
To know more and more and more
Of its secret ways and properties
And about its astounding qualities Seeking unity in diversity
Nay admiring amazing diversity
In underlying unseen! unity.
And as I probe the matter
further and further
My neuro cells generate thoughts that wander
far and near, here and there almost everywhere
Some times ‘looking’ at the ‘nano’ (s) inside all
At other times at grand phenomena far beyond all
Peeping through microscope or telescope
Virtually trying to fathom Nature’s horoscope
My eyes widen and my heart begins to throb
In an effort to visualize and unravel its mystries
And find it indeed very difficult to cope
What with happenings since time began
and with those yet to be ; and great hope
In a Nature pregnant with possibilities.
Look! At the chemicals in the so called
nonliving ‘mode’
Their molecules, atoms, electrons, protons
and neutrons
Or for that matter quarks, lepton, bosons
and other ‘ons’
Oh! Why they attract and why they repel ?;
unite or pull apart at all !
How and why arrays and arrays of atoms upon atoms
In this way or that way form such beautiful patterns?
How each atom knows exactly where to fit in !
And at what angle and in what number to begin
forming a molecule and joining in a particular way
To make or assume some particular form or forms.
Oh! Why atoms and within them electrons
and protons
Keep vibrating energetically as if ‘dancing’
all the time
Like Lord “Shiva’s divine ‘Tandav’”
once upon a time
And these naughty guys-electrons
keep jumping --- from time to time .
Ay! from shell to shell or when ever they get a chance-
Forthwith racing alone or together for creating a current,
generating force –energizing, initiating actions and reactions-
giving, saving or taking life .
Oh! If you turn to the other world
and in it to those
on the borders of living and nonliving
worlds –
the notorious Virus or their nearest
living ‘guys’
the unicellular organisms like diatoms
& bacteria
and just let your eyes roam and I bet
you will be
wonderstruck by their beautiful
architectural designs
in so simple, symmetrical & functional,
amazing styles.
How clever are these viruses, you know,
remaining passive when time is not on their side
And becoming active instantly when opportunity knocks the door--
‘take off’ ( like a Rocket from launcher type body in some cases)
and ‘land’ like a rocket or a helicopter on its ‘pad’ on host surface
entering like a Trojan horse- injecting their fighting force ‘DNA’ inside
an unsuspecting enemy host ; and once in , fight , or
become dormant and wherever and whenever possible
defeat & control the enemy cells of the so called ‘higher’! forms
unless and until the host somehow
succeeds In outwitting and getting rid of them from their inside .
--------- -------------------- --------
NB :
Any keen observer of Nature is bound to be fascinated and wonder struck by the
ways and styles with which the Nature fashions its ‘World’ – the whole of universe
and follows the fundamental Laws it has chiseled for itself meticulously, timely
precisely and aesthetically in ‘,awesome’ manner .which amaze and astound us
and leave us spell bound .,
This poem introduces the universal tendencies and peculiarities which assume
the form of principles and propensities visible every where if one has eye to see .
In the past philosophers have tried to do so .and given rise to myths and legends
in an effort to explain mind boggling phenomena but today scientists are trying to
appreciate facts and expound them rationally .
S.K.B
5/108 SFS mansarovar
Jaipur