Poetry from Greg Hill

GENESIS, Initial Chapter

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¹ Opening: Firstly, CREATOR created heavens astride planets. ² Terrain existed without pattern: chaotic, lacking. Shadows colored hellish seaways. ³ CREATOR thought: Observe! Visible shining swiftly emerged. ⁴ CREATOR noticed visible shining, thought: Radiant! CREATOR divided shining against dimness. ⁵ CREATOR labeled shining Daytime. Dimness CREATOR labeled Shadows. Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

⁶ CREATOR thought: Bazinga! Animate, heavens! Animate, seaways! Isolate heavens besides seaways, abysses besides abysses. ⁷ CREATOR created heavens, divided covered seaways against topmost seaways. Objects thereby emerged. ⁸ CREATOR labeled heavens…Heavens. Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

⁹ CREATOR thought: Beneath heavens, convene seaways towards precise bearing, uncover drained terrain. Objects thereby emerged. ¹⁰ CREATOR labeled terrain Earthly. Seaways CREATOR labeled Oceanic. CREATOR admired efforts, blurted: “Whoopee! Objects looking awesome!” ¹¹ CREATOR thought: Advance, grasses, kernels, berries, flowers. Objects thereby emerged. ¹² Earthly terrain yielded grasses, kernels, berries, flowers. CREATOR admired efforts, blurted: “Whoopee! Objects looking awesome!” ¹³ Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

¹⁴ CREATOR thought: Advance, glowing beacons. Measure daytime against shadows, signals marking diurnal periods, marking seasons, marking annuals. ¹⁵ Develop whereby beacons betwixt heavens sparkle against earthly terrain. Objects thereby emerged. ¹⁶ CREATOR created several massive sparkly objects—greater, stellar rondure leading Daytime; smaller, evening rondure leading Shadows. Besides, CREATOR painted shining beacons, distant stellar objects — pulsars, perhaps. ¹⁷ CREATOR painted shining beacons betwixt heavens, shining athwart earthly terrain. ¹⁸ Besides, beacons divided Daytime against Shadows. CREATOR admired efforts, blurted: “Whoopee! Objects looking awesome!” ¹⁹ Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

²⁰ CREATOR thought: Seaways, produce copious animals, deliver dynamic variety, besides soaring animals gliding athwart earthly terrain, tangent heavens. ²¹ CREATOR created immense oceanic animals — marlins, belugas, monster jellies — copious animals besides. CREATOR admired efforts, blurted: “Whoopee! Animals looking awesome!” ²² CREATOR exalted similar animals, shouted: “Produce! Produce! Satiate seaways. Produce athwart earthly terrain.” ²³ Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

²⁴ CREATOR shouted: “Present animals — donkeys, caribou, buffalo; serpent animals — worming, snaking, coiling animals — besides beastly animals.” Animals thereby emerged. ²⁵ CREATOR created beastly animals: donkeys, caribou, buffalo; serpent animals: worming, snaking, coiling animals. CREATOR admired efforts, blurted: “Whoopee! Animals looking awesome!”

²⁶ CREATOR shouted: “Observe! Hominid animals!” — bipedal sapiens. Looking similar, thought CREATOR. Kindred towards Ourself — roughly kindred, perhaps. Present hominid animals supreme thought ability, keeping mastery towards oceanic animals; towards soaring animals; towards beastly animals; towards serpent animals besides. ²⁷ Therein, CREATOR created hominid animals; manlike besides womanly, CREATOR created. ²⁸ CREATOR exalted bipedal hominid animals, shouted: “Produce! Produce! Fulfill destiny. Produce athwart earthly terrain. Control earthly terrain. Command oceanic animals, soaring animals, beastly animals, serpent animals besides.”

²⁹ CREATOR shouted: “Observe! Hominid animals, receive grasses, kernels, berries, flowers. Consume! Consume! ³⁰ Beastly animals, soaring animals, serpent animals — wherein animals present, consume herbage!” Thereon, animals feasted. ³¹ CREATOR admired earthly objects, between squeals blurted: “Whoopee! Objects looking awesome!” Evening through morning equaled ensuing diurnal measure.

[English Monarch Version sourced.]

Greg Hill is a writer and voice over talent in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has an MFA from Vermont of College of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared recently in Black Heart Magazine; Verse Wisconsin; and Queen Mob’s Teahouse. His creative writing endeavors are not inspired by working a desk job in some media company’s web department.