Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed
Poetry Practitioner and Adviser
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  String Theory

The universe is knitted out of string
that must be why we used to play 'cat's cradle'
hand to hand as children naturally
unravelling and ravelling the patterns
unending unbeginning in the loop
our fingers stretched to keep the needful tension.

Vibrating space is bendy now and warped
according to what energy and mass
what light or dark what cavernous black
holes or wormholes too miniscule
to comprehend may happen or come around
at any time. But Time is a dimension

of the whole if whole there is in such
a fluid gas or solid interweaving
in and out above below a field that
can transform, a field of forces weak
or strong, nuclear, gravitational
electromagnetic pulling and pushing us

beyond our mind's control much more
akin to what we sense and feel and
even what we think we might believe
of angels or thought-energised-by-love
with five percent made visible, the rest
seductive dark ex-static energy.

Oscillating filaments spin particles
as messengers across the mind of chaos
through branes, (yes spelt like that)
and whorls of branes poised in dimensions
of their own and even in another kind
of universe we hypothetically surmise.

Vibrating space is bendy now and warped
fluid gas or solid interweaving
seductive dark ex-static energy
messengers across the mind of chaos
fingers stretched to keep the needful tension
a universe that's knitted out of string.

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