Scholars Historians Define This Age We Live In Poem by Terence George Craddock

scholars historians like to classify societies
civilizations with clever simplistic titles
a stone age a bronze age an iron age
an age of stream up until an internet age
a hand phone age but is it accurate societies
are far more complex than these limiting titles
these titles say nothing about what is happening
with agriculture crop animal husbandry transport

travel communication medicine religion
let us briefly examine our technological
global communication age is it a stone age?
actually without stone modern society cannot
continue prosper as it now does stone is needed
for building construction limestone is ground

up to make cement stone strong stone is broken
up to make roads without stone cement modern
buildings skyscrapers cease to exist all towns
cities need stone are built with stone the iron
became steel inside buildings for railway lines
cars trains but iron was to heavy for planes first
wood steel replaced by aluminium titanium alloys
now we use a kind of stone coal how? graphite

epoxy or carbon-fiber-reinforced
polymer is the popular choice
for state-of-the-art commercial
aircraft why? yes weight weight
weight the enemy of flight weight
again resilient carbon fibers embedded

in an epoxy resin a carbon composite
materials can be stacked in a number
of efficient strength enhancing ways
to meet various demands of maintaining
integrity during high-speed required flight
the beauty of these carbon-fiber materials
is they are about as strong as aluminum
but half the weight weight weight weight

graphite like the black rock coal is carbon graphite
is an allotrope of carbon as are charcoal diamond
graphite is a carbon compound with a plate-like
atomic structure that differentiates it from diamond
which is a tetrahedral structure graphite is formed
in a lower crust setting from carbonaceous rocks that

might contain coal diamonds are formed at far higher
temperatures and pressures so turn up the heat ladies
because diamonds are the rocks ladies love to wear
diamonds are a girls best friend precious polished
stones are adored sought the world over because
of their dazzling unique beauty sought for jewelry
but the lesson learned is with complex technology
societies live not in label ages but combination ages

one day expert scholars historians
might wake up realize societies civilizations
are mixtures of their classifications

when scholars historians wake up realize
this they will finally begin to unlock secrets
complexities of the past simplistic know

it all definitions impede understanding
of change flux complexities which were
going on stasis in one area never stops

necessity innovation in challenge change areas
adaptation to weather climate is the key to survival
civilization adapts to change to survive or dies