One Stop Poetry Picture Challenge!

Picture by Roger Allen Baut
Challenge by : http://onestoppoetry.com/

Diamond sparkles in frozen waves

A moment captured forever.

Electronic magic now saves

Digital second whenever

The click of a button and so

The picture we’re certain we see

Becomes a line of yes and no

The wonder of imagery.

The light there glinting on the page,

A myth that fools the eye and brain,

Ink and pixels become the cage

That traps and then displays again.

And since it looks like a thin wafer of crystal to me:

Crystal lines refracting light

Layers of atoms bonded tight

Layers of time exposed to sight

Crystalline bright.

Bands of compressed history

Viewed microscopically

Glimpses of the past we see

In filigree.

Pressured into lines so thin

What things are recorded in

The bands we see drawn within

Silicate skin

In future times will crystals hold

Information so controlled

Grown in many a careful mould

Data stronghold.

And will we ever free the past

That’s held within your rocky cast

And understand what you amassed

And now outlast.

Good luck at the Shorty Awards ceremonies folks.  I hope you have a great time.