Tagged: planet
at four fifty-six
at four fifty-six
a.m., the sparrow starts its
daily chirps, calling
us away from sleep, we are all
the planet’s uninvited guests
.
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dawn arrives with a
dawn arrives with a
turn of the earth, a magic
trick, not fully solved
.
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such a small globe, one
such a small globe, one
world, one humankind, harping
on their differences
.
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sunrise over green
sunrise over green
lake, water stays in its basin
as the planet spins
.
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because chaos is
because chaos is
uncountable, we are
asked to refrain from
recognizing multiple
chaoses, grasping
syndemics, even
in an emergency
of our own doing
and undoing
.
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if we escape this,
if we escape this,
perhaps we will be greeted
by a restored earth
.
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we come together
we come together
with and without reason, like the
planet, revolving
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: reason
perhaps you and i
when i heard today
when i heard today
that NASA had discovered
a new solar system with seven
earth-like planets, i sighed
thank god as if i were
closer to getting off
this one. other lures:
the system’s star
is an ultracool
dwarf named TRAPPIST-1,
no abrahamic relations, and
cosmically speaking,
40 light years away
is only right next door
.
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for every sunset,
for every sunset,
two horizons are meeting
and never touching
.
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