ships at horizon
look tiny between vast sea
& endless sky.
Horizon [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: Scale
Dragonfly Eye [Lyric Poem]
The dragonfly strafing lilies
doesn't know how very silly
a bantam taller than a ram
seems to a ram tall as a filly.
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Mental Scaling [Haiku]
trickling water
becomes a vast cascade;
grass tufts blur to trees.
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What I Know about Beaches [Free Verse]
On a sandy beach,
I think of each grain
of sand as being
the same.
But on a pebble beach,
Each stone has its own
color, texture, size,
and shape.
It's made me second guess
What I know about beaches.
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Pond Waves [Haiku]
Scale Change [Haiku]
boulders in a pond become the stone monolith islands in a sea.
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Tiny Islands [Haiku]
boulders in a pond
look like rocky islands
in tranquil seas
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POEM: Tiny Window
That speck of sand
that you can barely see
is a planet to the particle
that sits on either side of it,
awaiting a wave form collapse.
Your mind can’t roam out
to the tip of the spiral arm–
let alone to the leading edge
of space as it accelerates into…
5 billion years or 5,000,
it’s all the same to you.
And anything less than
a microsecond isn’t worth
being called time–
[though it’s half a life time for muonium.]
Such a tiny window
through which to seek
the sum of all knowledge.
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