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I understand what time is. It is our measurement of motion which started when the "Unmoved Mover"/God (Aristotle) created this material universe and set it into motion. Material forms here move in different directions at different rates, all coordinated within the tapistry of this universe, its "natural" laws having the effect of enforcing purpose upon everything in it. You cannot unscramble an egg.

Here all forms are of linear matter-in-motion (Thomas Hobbs), but this is all seen by God everywhere and all at once, and those (very few) of us who pass His test will be saved out of this universe and into a spiritual reality where all is unified and is effective without moving!


Born in nineteen forty-one,
Disabled, retirement has begun.
In the Army two years long,
First in D.C., then Viet Nam.
Had a TV broadcast career.
My wife and child I hold most dear.

I'm happy with cats here in AP
Writing poems for all to see.
Tiki and three other cats,
Fat and Scat and Shack cats,
Write my poems; they're really brats;
And Ellis is completely bats!

You may join us any time,
But know we will run you off
Should your every word not rhyme.
All must rhyme even when you cough!
Join us here, pull up a chair.
Give the cats all proper care.
Scat may bite, so beware,
But it won't hurt, so we don't care.

I write the old fashioned way
nostalgic for fine verses,
full of brilliant things to say
with muses for my nurses.
I write so exceptionally well,
attacking my machine with zest.
It makes sure I can spell;
my ghostwriter does the rest!

Echoes of Keats, Byron, Shelley
swirl inside my head
as I pat my sagging belly
while my cat gets it said.
I will yet become a star,
the greatest of rhyming sages.
All my cat has written so far
impresses, astounds, and amazes!
Can't wait to be super great!
I know I will some day.
Always known this is my fate
with such brilliant things to say!

--Ellis

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Tiki Cat here, -- now here is the truth:

All above is so much guff.
For Ellis I do it all.
I'm the one who has the touch,
Ellis writes on the wall.
There is no hope for Ellis,
I do it all for him.
Too dense to be even jealous,
He pets me now and then.

So Ellis and I get along
Very well indeed.
People now, don't get this wrong:
It's me who makes this place succeed.
Ellis does not write a thing.
Nowhere is his poetry seen.
Tiki Cat writes everything.
Tiki Cat is Poetry Queen!
I know this cause I am she.
It's all written entirely by me.
Ellis does not write a line.
Get that thought out of your mind!

I, Tiki Cat, really should be
The one you have to come to see
About the changes that we need
For this website to succeed.
It is such an obvious thing,
The change that I intend to bring.
All that's posted here must rhyme,
No free verse at any time.

Free verse is not poetry.
It's as dull as a calm sea.
Free verse free of poetry
Is the same as prose to me.
It's a poem if it rhymes.
If it doesn't make sure it dies.
You must rhyme all the time,
Or we'll have to charge you fines.

Tiki Cat, Your (true) Hostess


I am a Christian. I realize that if the teachings of Jesus were followed by everyone we would have no wars and all people would live together in harmony and with mutual respect.

Time is our measurement of all motion (earth's rotation, day, and orbit of the sun, year, being the standard for it (time) by which all other movement is measured). Different things move at different speeds and in different directions; and the incredible organization of it all and the cohesion of the whole process indicates development and purpose in it all, as it unfolds through the plan of its Intelligent Designer.

--Ellis