Maria Camacho's

Poetry & Graphics

 

Reposted from original URL at:

http://mariacamacho.blogspot.com/

with permission.  Some comments

omitted/added.  See postings at link above

for public-access version of Maria's work.

 

Sunday, June 18, 2006

 

No one knows what lies outside the universe.

I guess is some other universes and they all float inside a mega universe, containing all of this little universes.

They drift around forming clusters of universes, and from time to time these island universes will collide with each other, making a tremendous bang and

disappearing in a flash of unknown particles.

I wonder if anyone can ever fly in a rocket in between universes and if time exists at all in this strange space.

Perhaps they will look like stars

to the eyes of our intrepid traveller.

Every universe must have a mega black hole in its midst

and some universes are made of antimatter.

All of these universes have to be contained into something, and then we have different blobs full of universes floating in their own time continuum.

 

I can go on and on.

 

I wonder if we'll ever know where we really are

or what is the purpose of us all.

 

 

 

SPACE AND TIME

 

Within space and time

Galaxies float in ether

Shinning across the aeons

And thrashing in a soup of gas

 

Magnificent nebulas scatter around

Crawling across the distances

As hazy bands of infinity

While stars erupt in a sea of protons

 

Red giants envelop solar systems

Their pregnant bellies scattering particles

As rings of gas expand forever

Life is born from their seeds

 

Beyond the universe’s infinite bounds

Another one exists

Galaxies fill an alien sky

Ringed planets go around hot suns

 

 

A replica of me stares at the heavens

Anti matter eyes rejoicing in the spectacle

Of milliards of suns

In a soup of gas and dust

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 3:12 PM  

 

 
  Wednesday, June 14, 2006  
   
 

 

 

VITAL MISTAKE

 

Cryoguy wakes up n

In the distant future

Full of horror

 

He tries to understand

What has happened

To his world

 

Why it has turned

Upside down

While the date has gone tipsy

 

People are new

And talking funny

Full of witty ideas

 

Never imagined in his poor

Aged and whimsy brain

Caught by error

 

In a time full of eddies

And echoes of a distant past

He was put by mistake

 

In a freezer

At the time of his death

By an immortalist

 

And has to live forever

With this fringe group

He always hated

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 6:34 AM  

 

 
 

Saturday, June 10, 2006

 

TALKING CRYONICS

 
 

 

Did you ever want to go to the future after your own death?

Cryonics is thought to be science fiction by some people. Imagine yourself five hundred years from now, in a very different world.

Cars will fly in cities where the streets have been turned into immense parks. Money might have finished and no one will ever die again.

You will live for as long as you want to, and when you’re tired of life, you will be placed in a tank for a few hundred years.

 

We all have to die at the moment. No one is safe from death.

Whether you’re young or old, poor or rich,

black or white, intelligent or dumb,

you have to die.

I don’t want to decompose in a coffin or to be burned to cinders. Cryonics might take me to that future where death has been vanquished. If I don’t wake up at all and cryonics fails,

I'll stay dead.

Just like the rest of you.

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 4:41 PM

 

 
  Thursday, June 08, 2006  
   
 

FEAR

 

I wonder how it must feel

To look at the world for a last time

Before you’re all alone

In front of fear

 

As you shut your eyes

And float towards the abyss

What will your last thoughts be

Imagine oblivion

 

Drifting towards nonexistence

And seeing nothing

As you move into the void

emptiness greets you

 

At that moment

When you stop being yourself

And fall into the universe

Called death

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 9:42 AM  

 

 
  Sunday, June 04, 2006  
   
 

 

 

CRYO 231

 

Cryo 231 has woken up

From his long sleep

Someone put him

In a cryonics tank

 

Many centuries ago

In a galaxy full of hot suns

He has been cruising around the stars

In a rocket built to last

 

With the durability

Of the quantum world

He's accompanied

By his frozen crew

Stored in other tanks

 

Full of cryogenic liquid

Cryo 231 doesn’t know

How old he is

Or what he’s supposed to do

 

Light years away from home

With a body cloned

Out of a few cells

And a four hundred year old brain

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 4:58 PM  

 

 
  Friday, May 19, 2006  
   
 

 

 

A DREAM

 

A calm sea shines under a full moon

Showing the view

 

Of a peaceful beach

Amidst utopia

 

As a wave hurtles

Towards the shore

 

Threatening to engulf me

Into chaos

 

I wish it to stop

And it’s Motionless in an instant

 

Weird in my vision

I can’t be sure whether it’s reality

 

Or if it exists alongside my fears

I’m thankful for this gift of freezing time

 

To save my life

Lost in the cosmos

 

Then consciousness

Threatens to sweep away sleep

 

And throws me

Towards a bluish sea of reality

 

While the morning sun

Awakes my senses

 

As I open my eyes

I remember that frozen second

 

Of eternity

Thrown into uncertainty

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 5:54 PM  

 

 
  Monday, May 08, 2006  
   
 

 

 

ASHES TO ASHES

 

It’s a beautiful day here in London

Geese swim in the pond

 

And as sunshine fills my soul

The trees sway in the gentle breeze

 

Of a spring world

Enjoying the power of life

 

The mother duck

Feeds her ducklings

 

In the middle of utopia

While big fish

 

Swim below her feet

Rejoicing in nature

 

Giving us universal hope

And happiness

 

Because beauty

Engenders pleasure

 

Before we go back to nothing

And it’s dust to dust

 

Ashes to ashes

For us all

 

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 2:16 AM

 

 

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  Thursday, April 20, 2006  
   
 

 

 

THROUGH IMMORTAL LIPS

 

I imagine myself

In the heart of a new age

Where you and me

 

Will remember old ways

And previous times

Gone in the course of

 

The centuries

Because through immortal lips

I’ll greet the future

 

When it comes

As time runs

And flies

 

Towards the unknown

We’ll meet after revival

To toast our hopes

 

 

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 6:58 AM  

 

 
  Monday, April 17, 2006  
   
 

JESUS, THE CRYONICIST

 

He prayed

And performed miracles

His mission had been a simple one

To save the mortal man

 

As he cured the sick

And raised the dead from their graves

He was a king without a crown

Whose purpose

 

Became his goal

Man of wisdom

King of us all

Who had a simple plan

 

He taught us a lesson

With his unfair demise

Up on the hill

In a metal tank

 

At the hands of his friends

Whom he had come to save

From going back to the earth

As nature intended

 

Three days after his death

He arose again

From his cold container

In glorious triumph

 

This son of a carpenter

Came back from death

As a feat of science

In a Cryonics way

 

Happy Cryonics Easter

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 2:23 PM  

 

 
  Monday, April 03, 2006  
   
 

SAVING HENRY

 

Henry is a dummy

With plastic skin

And placid eyes

 

At five thirty he died

By five thirty one

He was lifted onto the ice bath

 

We didn’t want to send him

To dummy heaven

If it ever existed

 

We did compressions

Put his head in ice

And an IV line in his arm

 

Medications went in

Flowing through his blood

And stopped free radicals

 

Ice bags around his body

Kept the temperature down

While oxygen

 

Went into his lungs

Saving the brain

Keeping grey matter fresh

 

 

SURVEY

What do you want to happen to your body after you die?

 

1: Do you want to be cremated?

2: Do you want to be buried?

3: Do you want to be frozen?

 

You must explain why you are doing it.

 

posted by Maria Camacho @ 10:00 AM  

 

 
  Saturday, March 04, 2006  
   
 
My father died ten years ago. As a cryonicist,I haven't recovered from that terrible tragedy yet. I have lost my father twice as far as I'm concerned. First to death itself, and then to the tomb.


HE'S GONE FOREVER!

IN MEMORY OF DAD

I have memories of you
Happy events of my childhood
Shrouded in fog
Dimmed by the years

As I remember you
I dissolve in tears
A proud man
Has been reduced to dust

What lies under the mud
It’s not my dad
He’s gone forever
And only lives in my mind

 
 
(Comment Linked - Original Posting)

  At 12:10 AM, boundlesslife said...

My mother died, in a completely unexpected way, in December of 1969. I had never anticipated that there would not be a way to get her frozen. By then, I had begun to advocate that every relative of mine who was terminally ill contact the then-existing cryonics organizations. How could this have happened?

The answer was that without making prearrangements, at that time, nothing could be done. This is still, for all intents and purposes, the case. Those who have not made prearrangements don't get frozen, except in cases so remote and unusual, and with such compromise, that each such case is a lesson to us all.

The impact of this event shaped all that I've done since, to see that those I care about would not meet the same, tragic end. It took me into an entirely new partnership with another cryonicist within the next year (1970) and, so far, has been the driving force behind getting both my father (1976) and her mother (1989) into suspension.

This tragedy of the loss of my mother still drives my life. It will always be the root of my understanding that this is where the dividing line exists between existence and non-existence. For any who see this, the lesson is this: make prearrangements and bond with others who have done this, or ultimately, you will truly cease to exist.

Even then, the future is far from guaranteed. Who can say what will happen to the world in general, in the next century? Or decade? Or by next week? But, if you do not continue to exist, if the worst should happen for you personally, have you not (by default) accepted non-existence for yourself?

In this case, what meaning have you attributed to your own life? And, if you attribute no meaning to this, what meaning do you then attribute, to any other life, either?

boundlesslife

 
  Sunday, February 19, 2006  
   
 
DEATH
 

I have ran away
Through the infinite sea
From your realm of darkness
With you in pursuit

I believed you once
Now I want revenge
For the rising pain
And my failed emotions

You promised me eternal love
On the tombstone of life
With a false emerald ring
And a coffin full of harm

I’ve flown through time
While you chased me
Hot tears of emotions
Running down my face

I trusted you long ago
Now I want my freedom
Your kingdom of darkness
Has to end for my soul

Your time has come
I don’t love you at all
Let me be on my own
Far from your world

 
 

Thursday, February 02, 2006

 
IMMORTALITY

I dreamt of immortality
As a tiny child
Scared of death
Loving life

My wish not to die
Took me away
To many corners
Of the world

The thought of death
Drew me towards science
Endless deities
Calling for my soul

I wished to be
A common god
Living in heaven
Forever and ever

Of the immortal beings
Inhabiting legends
I envied their longevity
And exciting lives

You might wonder
Whether not dying
Has been a dream
For a fleeting soul

I’ve found a solution
To my love of life
And peace of mind
For my poor heart

Freeze my body
Keep it fresh
It won’t decay
Within a tank

Through the eons
Time might find me
Undying eyes
Looking at the world
Saturday, January 28, 2006
A FAREWELL

One day
When I reach life's end
I’ll have this to say
To anyone who cares

This is a farewell to you all
Beyond me lies eternity
And after that
Who knows?

The journey should be hard
Nothing is easy
And this is a send-off
To all the world

My body will float in coldness
Organs won’t decay
Soul won’t sink
Brain will remain

This ship won’t flounder
It might reach eternity
While the rest is history
I will live on

Farewell cruel world
Hello distant future
Beyond the port of death
I’ll come back to existence
 
Friday, January 27, 2006
RED LIGHTS

It was a magical moment
Orion shone above me
As the Milky Way
Sprawled across the sky

Three red lights appeared
By Orion’s side
Dancing around
At incredible speeds

The world stopped turning
As they marched about
Faster than a jet plane
Stranger than my dreams

Then these lights
After several moments
Disappeared into infinity
Awakening reality

Don’t ask me what they were
It challenges my mind
They swept into the sky
Stumbling on my world
Friday, January 27, 2006
ODE TO CRYONICS

I want to see the future
Rolling down the ages
And nurturing the universe
Along with my dreams

Let me awaken
In a new millennium
When thoughts of death
Belong to the past

I might stand here
In a few hundred years
Memories of a past life
In my new brain

Hurrah to cryonics
Thumbs up for immortality
Living forever rules
Death is my foe
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
DAPHNE

Running down the path
Hair flying in the wind
Daphne looks back
Someone is chasing her

She rushes by a pond
Splashing in the mud
And flies by the trees
Crouching under a bush

As she hugs the branches
Spreading leaves around
Feet sink in mud
Reaching down to infinity

The stranger arrives
Disturbing the calm
Kicking the earth
Searching for her

Quiet within the bush
She looks at him
Leaves caressing her face
Body buried in mud

Her skin hardens
Branches grow out of hair
She communions with earth
As he kisses the leaves
Thursday, December 29, 2005
SPACE AND TIME

Within space and time
Galaxies float in ether
shining across the eons
And thrashing in a soup of gas

Magnificent nebulas scatter around
Crawling across the distances
As hazy bands of infinity
While stars erupt in a sea of protons

Red giants envelop solar systems
Their pregnant bellies scattering atomic particles
As rings of gas expand forever
Life is born from their seeds

Beyond the universe's infinite bounds
Another one exists
Galaxies fill an alien sky
Ringed planets go around hot suns

A replica of me stares at the heavens
Anti matter eyes rejoicing in the spectacle
Of milliards of suns
In a soup of gas and dust
Thursday, December 29, 2005
SWEET MEMORIES

Yesterday you lived here
Small boots kicked in the snow
Nose running in a pink face
Unruly hair and a mouth pouting,
Kiss? You asked

You rushed out of the nursery
I Pecked your cold cheeks
Colourful drawings still fresh
Pack lunches with banana peelings

Little feet chasing me home
Sesame Street came on
We lay in bed entwined
Sweet memories, lost forever?

Your coat hangs in the corridor
Boots sleep amongst the dust
Happy pictures look at me
From the depths of pain

If I could bring back the past
And have you at home
So many things to tell
All waiting to come out

Perhaps I imagined you
In between sweet dreams
Where little feet chased me
Until they ran out of time

My mind sees you sometimes
From despair comes hope
And everything ends as fantasy
You were never born
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
I'm serious about immortality. This life is too short and I want to do so many things. I hope that cryonics works so that I can go to that future I dream about. I want to wake up after my death in a world devoid of suffering and illness. The future should be a great place to be. I don't want to be alone in the future and have paid for my children to get frozen. Hurrah to Cryonics!

Freeze me when my time comes
And wake me in a future
Without death
Show me the way to the stars

Take me to another place
Far from my own death
transport me to the future
Let me live for eternity

Cryonics is a cool thing
Death is not fun
It won't take me to that future
Amidst the stars

Hurrah to Cryonics.
Thumbs down for death.
As a fan of immortallity
I hate the funeral cortege
Friday, December 23, 2005
I'm starting this blog as a cryonicist and immortalist. Life for me is valuable that is why I have decided to have my body frozen after death. As a cryonicist and a writer, I'm posting some stories about life, death, space and time.