I’m certainly no poet, but having written several over the years, I decided to post them all here in one go! My apologies for the quality, but I enjoy trying to put down ideas with the occasional light touch of humour. This is by no means all I’ve written and I’ll probably put down some more.
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I
All these poems have a theme, but firstly let me set the scene.
When I was young I read a story that filled my head with dreams of glory.
Johann Bessler’s sole intent, a non-stop wheel he would invent.
Triumphant after toil untold, he sought to sell it for silver and gold.
People came to see the wheel, witnessing that it was real.
Though offers came from men of wealth, they did not buy because they felt
the terms of sale were too unfair, they left with nought but empty air.
The cash must be upon the table before the buyer was even able
To study the inside of the wheel and it’s secret at last reveal.
Perpetual Motion was proscribed, a possibility denied.
Yet Bessler proved it possible to make a wheel unstoppable
It was the first, no precedent, turned non-stop ‘twas self-evident,
Witnessed by the man from Hesse, unimpeachable - nothing less.
He saw the inside of the wheel, he understood, said it was real.
Somehow Helmholtz got it wrong, and so I’ve spent a lifetime long
Looking for the hidden secret, but where did Johann Bessler keep it?
II
My first poem about Johann Bessler aka Orffyreus
This Ancient Mystery, I have sought, for many years, to solve and thought
The secret of the wheel's construction lay beyond mere skilled deduction.
So I brought the world's attention to this greatest missed invention.
Hoped some rare ability'd retrieve this fair facility.
Yet scarcely had the thought occurred before I realised how absurd
It was that I should have the notion I could solve Perpetual Motion
This Ancient Mystery's merely myth, credited by those whose kith
And kin forgot what they had learned, that energy spent must first be earned.
Despite this fact there was some doubt - did Bessler find a way about
This obstacle to energy, and find a force that's pure and free?
Long ago my doubts were dashed, for certain inspiration flashed,
The energy whose source I sought was all around - its cost was naught.
And wherein lies this bold solution that will solve the world's pollution?
The answer lies in Gravity, a field of energy that's free.
Conservative - its attitude to work is that its magnitude
Remains the same. It does not stop. It's constant and it makes things drop.
It’s said that this is contrary to what we think is verity,
Gravity cannot be used and those who think so are confused.
It matters not who's right or wrong - the clues have been there all along.
Bessler wrote in ciphers rare and paranoid, he did not dare
Reveal a clue - changed his ambition - sought posthumous recognition.
Text and image, cryptic instruction, showing us complete construction.
His secret solved will be the key to giving us free energy.
If you believe this can't be true, suspend your judgement - see if you
Can find a fault in what you read about the proof, with which I plead.
My aim is clear, intent is strong, to show that Bessler has been wronged.
III
Another More Poems
Perpetual motion? It’s a lie
That’s what they taught us, so don’t try
To understand, how Bessler found
A way to make his wheels spin round.
But if that’s true then he’s a fraud,
The evidence we have is flawed,
But there are things that don’t add up
Things which tell us don’t give up.
You see I think that Bessler’s wheel
Was not a fake, no, it was real.
He said the motion came from weights
But I think this misstates the case.
Deftly he abbreviated
Clues that each weight gravitated
Falling down then shooting higher
Each weight moving like a flyer.
The clues are there before our eyes
The mechanisms come alive,
Each one connects to the one next door
One goes up and one to the floor.
The evidence is very strong
Bessler’s claims cannot be wrong.
It’s just because we do not know
Exactly how he made it go.
They still say its impossible
To make a wheel unstoppable
But Bessler did and so can we
It might be you, or maybe me?
IV
I was callow and thin of skin,
when first I found Orffyreus' spin;
the poisonous barbs of jeers and sneers
aimed at me by my erstwhile peers
did not a jot of difference make,
to my intention to forsake
those oft repeated laws of old
that we were vehemently sold -
immutable and set in stone.
I, ignorant, set out alone
to prove those falsehoods once proposed,
accepted almost unopposed,
weaved in argument assumptive,
circular and quite presumptive,
conclusions made were not conclusive
and some agreed were too inclusive.
For 60 years I've sought success,
wanting more than just a guess.
Helmholtz said non-stop rotation,
driven just by weights in motion,
had never ever been achieved,
and not by Bessler, who deceived.
The words of many witnesses
dismissed as so much witlessness,
by Helmholtz, who said that he had proved
no weight-driven wheel had ever moved
without the aid of trickery,
chicanery and quackery.
Addressing such a case as this
a court of law might well dismiss
on grounds of lack of evidence
when set against such testaments,
given by those who saw the wheel.
Concluding that his claims were real
required a leap of faith to prove,
that gravity wheels could never move.
V
Three hundred years ago, he saw
the conservation of energy law,
which had previously prevented
every thing that he'd invented,
such as wheels that turned forever
driven just by weight and lever,
finally be circumvented.
The so-called experts who declared
that such devices are absurd,
proscribed their source as gravitation,
nor anything else in isolation,
and denied perpetual motion
could still be a valid notion.
But given the ubiquity
of the earth's force, gravity,
how blind they are to evidence
that Bessler's wheel was common sense.
Gravity is not exclusive
permeating and diffusive,
it affects all in its compass,
supplying weight and moving mass;
with the right configuration
it supplies from gravitation
wheels which turn continuously,
simply driven by gravity.
Those scientists who vent their spleen,
who criticise us and demean
our strong belief that such machines
do not turn in isolation
but draw their strength from gravitation..........
are wrong!
VI
When I first read about Bessler’s Wheel
I wondered if it could have been real.
I put the question to the teacher
Who said my question was a feature
Of lazy people who’s attitude
Demonstrated their ineptitude
To understanding what they were taught.
But his response I never bought.
I never could accept the logic
Which denied the force gravitic
Which endlessly maintained its presence
It always seemed just common sense
To find a way to tap this source
And put to use its driving force
That makes things heavy and makes things fall.
They say it’s not a source at all,
But we can use the way things drop
To make a wheel rotate non-stop
We need a mutual exchangement
Within two gravitised rearrangements .
One weight works in each division,
Five divisions to aid transmission
Work together to make the wheel turn
Why five and not four, eight or six?
Five is the most that really fits.
Using the right configuration.
VII
A Circle of Fifths.
My apologies for this poem, for over-egging the importance of the number 5, but it was clearly of immense importance to Johann Bessler but for reasons unknown, it seems we ignore it at our peril, well not peril but surely we should be using his own strongest clues to replicate his machine!
Bessler embedded the number five
In his name so we’d realise
How vital five is to nonstop drive.
If we ignore how Bessler strived
To make us value number five
We will always fail to derive
A spinning wheel with endless drive
Unless we follow his advice
To make our wheels have space for five
Equal compartments just for five
Single weights to number five
It’s obvious that we should try
Configurations based on five.
The reason for the need for five
is simple once you realise
The regular and even drive
Needs no pauses to come alive.
Bessler fitted full mechanisms five.
Fewer than five will cause a dive
In the speed and it won’t revive.
The most of them he could contrive
To fit inside the wheel was five
All the space was needed to thrive.
Any pause in action denied,
Giving the eveness described
By countless witnesses advised.
All hesitation is denied
To make this non-stop wheel thrive.
John Collins ©️ 2024
