#464
Playground
Earth is tethered to the stars,
As are Jupiter and Mars,
Like the schoolyard ball and rope:
Such is the grounding of our hope.
earth
Not Gravity...
#404
Rocked
The heft of the Rock
In our front yard
Holds down the earth,
Restrains its mirth.
Thank God for such a
Stable weight
To help our laughter
Germinate.
After Magritte: This is not a poem...
#372
"God Is Dead"
Look around you, what do you see?
The universe is empty space;
Nothing but matter in motion.
This thought makes me a basket case,
Unless of course that ilk is wrong,
And empty Earth's a trysting place,
For God to meet the human race
(And not His final resting place).
All that's missing then is grace
To see the face of God and live.
Or is it elephants...?
#292
Elements
I do not like the water,
I do not like the rain;
I do not like the earth and fire,
And air gives me a pain.
Such thinking of the elements
Gives me cerebral drain.
Not quite Shakespeare...
#283
Musings
The whirligig of time spins round,
While the Earth stands still;
Or is it just the other way?
Such motion makes me ill.
"An astronaut struck by a meteoroid is a goner." Mary Roach
#150
100,000 MPH
Standing on the Lunar surface,
Looking toward the Earth,
I got hit by a meteoroid:
All that's left is dearth.