Patience

sonnet in tetrameter

 

 

Patience

 

Each stalactite and stalagmite

is growing slowly drop by drop.

Invisibly to human sight.

A process which will never stop.

 When they meet eventually

They will form a column of stone

 at which we gaze wonderingly.

Throughout long ages it has grown.

The wonders nature can produce

 are greater than the works of man

Which in their pride mankind must choose

to understand as best they can.

The secrets Mother Nature knows

producing stone that slowly grows.

 

11-Mar-08

Reviews

[Dezaraye]

This is awesome! Something I'd never taken into consideration ... nature does have patience. It takes so long to make these columns and also to make a diamond or a pearl and nature just keeps waiting. I love your piece and the deep thoughts.

[Angela Talbert]

Which in thier pride mankind must choose
to leave it alone or destroy it...I guess I would have gone in a different direction with this-lol
nice :)