Focusing

Keep your eyes upon the sky

and a single blade of grass

Watch it grow so very slow

as through a looking glass.

The blueness lends the warmth of light

to the earthly sod

that celebrates the dawn of life

where casual feet may trod.

But down upon my knees I gaze

in a secret wonder

at all the things that life will bring

as God reveals His splendor!

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i try to get my students to notice what is around them...their focus is so often on their text messages, cell phone calls, where they want to be in the next fifteen minutes, but never where they are...never watching a sunset and really absorbing the beauty of it...

william carlos williams' poem "red wheelbarrow" shows how a utilitarian object can possess beauty as he illuminates a scene with the rain glistening off the red wheelbarrow juxtaposed to the downy soft white feathers of the chicken...there is beauty in the most normal things.

nicely expressed here.

[Botania]

Happy you enjoyed it Jacob. Thank you so much.