ENTHRALLED: Reflections on Immensity

    Countless veins pulse through each leaf
    and thousands of leaves cover some trees.
    In a forest how many trees exist?

        Infinity bewilders me.

    Thousands of droplets make every wave
    and millions of waves comprise most seas.
    In an ocean how many drops persist?

        Eternity erases me.

    Clusters of molecules comprise each cell
    and trillions of cells create many beings.
    How much life has consciousness?

        We breathe unknowing.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A meditation on microcosms, macrocosms, and incomprhensibility.
KEYWORDS: immensitude, enthralldom, bewilderment, unknowingness

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1981 in Port Angeles, WA ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama (Japan)
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} 

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