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· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Preference Manifest

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· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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Molecule Dance

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It’s so easy to forget how small particles can be, and yet moving and connecting into enormous examples of life. (image by Etsy)

Wednesday, February 8, 2023


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Molecule Dance

 


So small
Amid my big brothers
Surfing atop their shoulders
Cresting death with infant life

So many miles
Drifting beside whitecaps
Their splash my recreation
Like the hydrant joys
Captive waters now biding time
Cool young spirits on land

Shamans of the deep
Have shared the future
Preparing me for the day
When caps will be lifted adrift
Free falling to the next
And the next
Until…

The quieter shores
Provide ebb and tide solace
Davy’s Locker stories
Come true

I too can return
So many ways back to the ocean
Through life’s water table
Evaporations to the clouds
Or…

Even the drinking by sentient friends
Affords serendipity
Liquid waste reclamation
A different second chance

After all
Davey tells me
I’m of molecules in life’s continuing story
No real end in sight





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Reviewed by Corrine Ardoin
Reviewed on February 18, 2023
A true poem expressed from leading a poet's life, open to memory and beauty, insight and pondering life. "So many miles drifting beside whitecaps," lends motion and shared experience. Beautiful! Wonderful words.

Reviewed on February 10, 2023
Oh, Odin! Your words, just as the drops and circles could go on beyond infinity!!! What a ride!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 9, 2023
Yes, we, even our miraculously chemically active brains, are made up of elements and molecules that are floating in a liquid substrate ocean of seawater we call blood moving around great distances in our arteries and vessels.

Conveniently, when one life we are making work fails, we just float in whatever substrate is available until we find others to join into mutual structure building for a life that goes on until the end of the universe.

Ron

Reviewed by A. Frailey
Reviewed on February 8, 2023
I agree with John. Lots of layers...the human experience transcends both science and imagination.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on February 8, 2023
An interesting and layered story of what it means to be a small wheel in a larger complexity.


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