Red Carpet of Evolution (A Poem)

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Red Carpet of Evolution,

The long road of survival;

Origin of species by natural selection.

The baculum that ceased to

Become a bone and a giant ruby

That became the source of

A mushy renaissance.

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So how did love evolve?

Darwin if alive would say adaptation.

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The strange twists that by which

We live, we love, we break our bodies

Like the holy Eucharist.

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Adam and Eve,

Or Adam and Steve;

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And yet what is most worthy

Of believing is, King Kong and queen Kong,

Two monkeys that let their tails

Not live another day, as

God watched on,

The perverted voyeur he is;

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The long road of evolution,

Has plenty of detours,

And an apotheosis – a species

Capable of falling in love.

There was no love for monkeys

Or apes, they were just savage,

As humans evolved garments, and chose

When to absolve them

Of their causes.

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We are not prudes.

Dogs fetch a stick, or chew a bone;

While humans take a boneless invertebrate,

With their pelvis – and mouth –

The onus of two beings, is to make

A vice into the prized,

The alter is not about sacrifice,

Only the conviction to dare,

That we will never fall out of love.

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Darwin looked at God and said,

“Evolution is the red carpet”;

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As we marched on with a myriad of

Wardrobe malfunctions;

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Like that notorious penis bone,

& meadows of fur.

Posted on 14 Sep 2019 0 By Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana) Climate Change Posted in Climate Change, Evolution, Natural World, Poem, Science, Uncategorized

Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.

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