Ripples

Somedays you just feel like this

 

 

Ripples

 

The ripples hypnotize

in synchronized patterns of tossed pebbles,

slowly finding that life is not a dream,

lying alone in the mire

 

Circular motions now distant,

touching an eroding shoreline still asleep,

weeping of moments lost

then slipping away

 

Fading into the deep

endless flow of hopes and wishes,

only to disappear

with little importance

 

“I am these ripples”

Author's Note

Thank you for reading

Reviews

[shythatway]

What a wonderful analogy. And even if the ripples do disappear, it's only the ones you can see with your eyes - says nothing about what still moves under the surface. :)

[Jack...]

Nicely said, thank you so very much.

[Frieda P]

Are you reading my mind again? I am a rippled abundance at the moment, how clever Jack, this one resonates and will continue to whirl long after the page is closed....pondering.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much Frieda. I wish I could read your mind for then I might find out how you write so many beautiful poems and absorb some of that knowledge.

[Keith]

Great analog, our great ideas and ambitions have much energy but often dissipate as they fan out and lose strength.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much sir.

[Lily Finch]

"i am these ripples " sound lOvely

[Jack...]

Thank you my far away friend. :)

[Emerald Seas]

This caught my breath - i felt forlorn and melancholy. At least that is how it hit me. I saw your comment below "kind of a down day" jeez, we are kind of kindred spirits! Wishing you well, my friend!

[Jack...]

Thank you so much my good friend. Since reading your review I am feeling much better. :)>

[Baby Ricochet]

Ah. Jack the existentialist. You have many sides to you my friend, as we all do. Good poem

[Jack...]

Thank you so much sir. I appreciate you stopping by.

[TL Boehm]

resonant and melancholy. What this reminds me of though is not the tiny ripple - but the ripple caused by an earthquake. By the time a ripple caused by plate tectonic activity reaches a shoreline - it takes out everything. Yes - your words could be a ripple - or they could galvanize enough power to change the very landscape. I like a poem that makes me think. This did.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much my sweet friend.

[David Scott]

I enjoyed the philosophy here Jack.
I think we all get unilateral in our thinking from time to time and forget that our lives, our words and actions have far reaching affect in directions we could not see even if we has the foresight to consider.
Yes, you are in each ripple, but I think we are more often the stone that was dropped.
Great job.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much sir.

[Rita L. Sev]

"...Only to disappear with little importance..." That may be how we feel, that our actions are insignificant, but there may be an impact that we never know. Tossing that pebble is a way that we just trust the Universe to take it, and the ripples, where it will. Great poem, Jack.

[Jack...]

Thank you so much Rita. Kind of a down day for me, that is where this came from. I appreciate your always kind words.

[Marie]

But many ripples make a wave...

[Jack...]

Hey, I have heard that I like to create waves. Thank Marie.