Short poem, about nothing at all…

A shining Sun sings in its lightbeams.
Drifting clouds fold themselves up.
The universe bursts at its seams.
All that has ever been – in a drop.

There are three men walking a road,
where a thousand more have passed.
Is there a switch to get to another mode?
Or bits have failed and a universe crashed?

Looking up to the heavens one might see,
a billion years of time and space all around;
reducing us to specks in oceans of infinity.
All we know is that our questions abound.

A young man watches the wind in the grasses,
while his sister plays, while the train sways.
Views change in the window as the world passes;
Still the wind follows in each field as it plays.

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  • Morgana on Dec 29, 2008

    The poem says a lot to me to be about nothing. Anyhow, lovely poem. Looking up the sky we wonder what’s our purpose.We want to know, are we alone? Then one looks around and see our lives and one thinks , that one is so fragile. We are so little compared to the universe. Very well written, interesting, with a tender tone.

  • eddiego65 on Dec 29, 2008

    Simply beautiful!

  • Janet Meyer on Aug 28, 2009

    Your is nice. A good rhyme scheme, and a kind of story. Good work. Janet

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