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Eyes To The Planets

My fickle eyes can barely make
A distance in the sky's black lake.
A blur, a smudge... But not suffice
To see a glint in rings of ice.
I wish my jaded eye could reach
The rosy flow, sulphuric beach,
The ice and furnace of extremes...
The crucible of astral dreams.
The mighty behemoths of gas
Black holes drilling time's crevasse.
A belt of rock, a cuff of storm
To feel our system's pulsing, warm.
To Earth's far siblings in this sky...
That sight and spirits there could fly.

Our universes orbit us -
T.V., birthday, dinner, bus...

But everyone deserves a trip;
The sea of stars? Go skinny-dip!
Wallow in how small we are
Just cosmic dust's brief avatar.
Float in the wonders, drink the scale...
Read the stars like ancient Braille.
Returning, how we'd laugh at stress
We'd sex and love and care much less
About cool 'stuff' and credit checks...
Be nicer to our fellow specks.

wolfie

@wolfie

The Octoberman. All I need is a bottle of Talisker, a keyboard and you. Facebook: Nikarkham www.nikarkham.co.uk

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πŸŒŸπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸŒŸbrilliant flowπŸ˜˜πŸ’πŸ˜˜

Love this, man. Quite often spend time looking at the stars - puts you in your place, doesn't it? πŸŒƒ

I guess it's not so bad to treat other people like dirt when you realize you're but a grain of sand yourself ...

@ckahn @wolfie my point is proved - it's the choosing of words that make it. Nice one nik πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜‰

@leelee101 indeed!πŸ’—πŸ‘πŸ’—

Lovely and quite bloody moving actually. Read it twice. Cracking piece.

Masterpiece - skinny dip amongst the stars, fabulous πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Excellent mate πŸ˜ƒπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜ƒ

Amazing, simply breathtakingly good βœ¨πŸ‘πŸ’œ

Very moving piece βœ¨βœ¨βœ¨πŸŒŸπŸ‘β˜Ί

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@VikingHorn um... That's your take?

@ckahn thanks... Struggled with that in places

@TheCodsPollocks it does mate. Yes. That's what drove me to write this as I was getting in knots over bills and kid problems

@leelee101 which point was that?

@yowwa aww.. Bless ya buddy

@naaviie wouldn't that be something? Love to be up there

@glen thanks mate

@Irrational_Kimmi cheers Kim :-)

@sjw @RichWithey my nightdwellers... Thanks. Means a lot. Cheers! 🍻

@wolfie kristina was saying about a standard rhyme being a bit boring but I said its the choice of words which count πŸ‘πŸ‘

@wolfie @leelee101 lol! Actually I was saying that I feel it gets boring when I personally use the same rhyming pattern over and over 😘 @wolfie this piece is a bit different for you, hence the struggle perhaps? It was well worth itπŸ˜˜πŸ’πŸ˜˜

@wolfie Well, just referring to the fellow specks part at the end. The whole thing is quite grandly sweeping, words don't really suffice to comment on all of it at once. 😁

You are in my book - I certainly don't use the word lightly πŸ˜‰

@VikingHorn lol..no problem with the comment.. Thanks for taking the time! I just was surprised you read it that way. I wrote it thinking that feeling small might make us feel humble and kinder to others... Not see others as inconsequential

@leelee101 I getcha .. I try to mix it up a little from time to time... But yes, this is a common rhythm and rhyme scheme

@ckahn different? Do you think? The style and form are pretty overused in my opusses. And probably the whimsy too! Not very original :-)

@ckahn @leelee101 ... Whereas scanning over you recent pieces, there's a fantastic diversity in all areas.

@wolfie I do see it pretty much the way you do, just expressing it differently. More like if we're all in the same inconsequential boat, we better help each other out. If we don't care for each other, then nobody will, because the universe damn sure doesn't.

@VikingHorn @wolfie @ckahn as I said to kristina, horses for courses and each to their own. And this little convo proves it. We all have different ideas of what's 'boring' or standard. Even on this piece alone we have comments offering different views, but all coming to the same conclusion, that it's the choice of words that has made the piece. Ooo it's good to talk... πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜‰

@leelee101 No, it's not just the choice of words, it's the concept behind those words. I refuse to see πŸ‘€2πŸ‘€ with you! 😜

@VikingHorn ah yes sorry Dan I misread your last comment, of course that's right πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Pure brilliance!

@BearScribbler thanks mate

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