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Open Poetry #49

Not Even a Drop in the Old Bucket

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-09-26 08:53 AM

immense is the universe
and the worlds
spinning within its realm
forest wide, deserts wider
cities, people
each with their own
problems, hurts
thinking their dire straits
supersedes everybody else's
eh . . .
in reality
they are living on the edge
of the cosmos
their dying breath
does not even nudge the immensity
of their deep space world

©September 19, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

KAM39
Junior Member
Posts 26

1 posted 2014-09-26 09:56 AM

This is a good write and a different way of looking at things around us but if you think about it, the very lives we live tend to be our seperate universe from the bigger picture only because that is the only universe we can sometimes control so, in a way, it makes sense to feel like your personal problems do supercede other universal problems unless the bigger picture can be controled by one persons actions. Thanks for sharing!

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-09-26 10:04 AM

Thank you very much, KAM39. We seem to ponder back to that old standby, "What's it all about, Alfie." The greatest minds of history has written thousands of tomes and epic poetry to seek the answers we all so desperately need answering . . . Still, I wonder if, when answered would that still our thirst for more?

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-09-26 10:08 AM

It is kind of like a grain of sand: insignificant in the Sahara but extremely significant in your eye.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-09-26 10:14 AM

Simplifying things is your forte, Lori. Thank you for being here.

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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2014-09-27 01:04 AM

You've summed it up, Jerry. Good comment, Lori.
Ida

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2014-09-27 08:59 AM

Thank you Ida . . .

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