Ethereal
-Kerfe Roig
Outside Tesco
-John Law
Star-sparked and sea-born,
all connected–
homeless man, his faithful dog,
hawks, the trees—you and me–
from unknown light and ethereal blues,
every shape and all the hues,
space dust and double helix spring, repeating
fractals in everything—patterns spread, threaded
through the eye of time,
from star to sea, we slither, smile, bark,
howl at the moon, fear the dark—
and so, the universe never asks—what is
the beginning, what is the end—
it just is, when and then, again.
Paul Brookes’ Ekphrastic Challenge, Day 10. I was inspired by all three works today. You can read the other poems here.
Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings 
You’ve managed to blend all the prompts seamlessly here into a philosophical poem: ‘we slither, smile, bark,
howl at the moon, fear the dark—‘
Lovely lines 😊
Thank you so much, Ingrid. Sometimes it all comes together–other times, not so much!😀
This is really good. Pleasure to read.
Thank you so much,Trent!
Reblogged this on The Wombwell Rainbow.
Thank you, Paul.
I think, to a certain extent, it’s confounding to us humans that:
the universe never asks—what is
the beginning, what is the end—
We somehow expect that the universe should ask.
Yes, I hadn’t thought of it that way exactly, but I think you’re right.
I missed this one. I’m having trouble with email, there’s a bug that I can’t get rid of. It freezes and I can’t access my mails.
You are great for connecting everything, must be the Oracle influence, but leaping from a homeless man outside Tesco across the universe, fractals and stars is quite an achievement 🙂 (and yes, we both gave him the dog).
Thank you!
I gave the homeless girl a dream, so I had to do something a bit different, but connections ended up being what I written about before. . .must be the Oracle! 😀
She has everything under control, holds all the strings 🙂
She does, and it’s best not to argue!
I wouldn’t dare!
😀
Superb! You are one of the best poets out here!
Thank you! 💙
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patterns threaded through the eye of time…they do connect it all, and if we look hard enough we can see it. (K)
Thank you very much, Kerfe. I think so, too.
“Patterns spread, threaded’ with seamless linkage
Thank you very much, Derrick.
Wonderful joining of all three images into a thoughtful piece, Merril. Lovely! The question is not to ask why, I guess; just to accept what is.
Thank you so much, Dale.
I suppose you’re right, but more easily said than done.
My pleasure.
We can ask, for sure… don’t know how many proper responses we would get, though 🙂
Oh none at all–maybe something cryptic from the Oracle. . .😏
Right! 😁