In the Beginning

[tectak]

Thanks Tom for the punctuation corrections. Please don't disappear I couldn't write without you. I mean that sincerely, you keep me on the straight and narrow. Yes, I know I am a dirty old man, my body's gone, so the only place I can play is in my mind.
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Mark,

Most of my poem have more than one level or layer. In this one there is the obvious superficial talking about how mosaic is so much better than Veronica, which was the truth, before mosaic there was no easy way to get to information that was on the world wide web. You generally had to know the address of the thing you were looking for. Veronica made it easier but it still took a lot of time to find anything and any number of resources would be bypassed simply because you didn't know they were there. At the second level is the sexual innuendo. At the third level there are some Biblical connections although probably not to the depth you have taken it, although it is often true that I have looked back on poems of mine ten years latter and found things that there was no way I knew about at that time, but there they are. So Biblically speaking what was on my mind as I wrote this or on the periphery of my mind, was yes, Moses-->Prophet-->Guide-->Magician, and writer of the Torah except the last few lines of  Deuteronomy, thus it would have been Moses who wrote the words of Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." So yes, there is that connection, plus I suspect the person, or persons who decided on the name of the browser had Moses in mind, and possibly the fact that the Torah is actually a mosaic of many different authors over many hundreds of years. However, although you make an excellent case for Veronica, to connect the name to the Biblical Veronica was never in my mind when writing this. I understand the connection with the name, but I cannot make any kind of connection from it to the other Biblical part of the poem. However I must congratulate you on finding the Biblical connection, most would not see that I suspect. If I had the time I would discuss this more in terms of Blake (the fourfold view) or the Arabian/Sufi code poems, but I am pressed.

Thanks for giving it a read.

Dale

Play time, then....sounds good to me. Thinking is the best way to travel. Moody Blues.
Do Not Stop Writing....your last period will be a coma.
Best,
Tom