IMMENSITY: Some Thoughts on Enormity 

I

	Surrounded by blue immensities
	& crashing in flurries ah foam
	it's eazy ta forget we're tiny parts
	ah the deep
	bringing froth
	ta many a beach . . .
	ah!
	sunlight glistening –
	cool, wet stone!

II

	When billows break on hard boulders
	then shimmer like jewels in sunlight
	what should we do?

	Lament our immanent evaporation
	or rejoice that – fer a moment –
	we reflect the sky's light?


Philyra:  What I like about this is the guy realizes he's small.

Elijah:	  The whole notion of size is relative.

Andrei:	  Hmm. This poem is insufficiently concrete. It isn't clear whether
          we're talking about a single human or abstract energy vortices.

Ellesha:  Is there a difference?

Jules:	  Don't allow metaphysics to warp your common sense. Too much philosophy makes us foolish.


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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A poem about oceans, dimensions, and discoveries and dialog about metaphysics & common sense
KEYWORDS: metaphysics & common sense, vastness, relativity, ocean foam, environmental poetry, marine poem 

Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan  /  Finished: 2024 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted
by T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ]

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