VI

Why billow in such a flurry?
Aren't we all heading for the same immensity?
What's the sense of rushing?
Will our frantic efforts amount to anything?

Perhaps we've forgotten what's important:
Aren't we mere shells in the sea?
We should discard land-based priorities
& realize the billows in us
Contain wondrous complexity.

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Immensity VI - an art work by T Newfields

VII

Deep within your lips there's an ocean
& I am but a wave.
Forget all billows & remember:
when we merge joy rises
& our froth contains
links to the entire food chain.

Come, let us share the water –
it's time to embrace the sea.
Let's renew our azure affinity
& redefine what it is to breathe!

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Philyra: Poetry seems to have an almost mystical meaning for this author.
Jules: Personally, I dislike it when poets try to make a religion out of verse. Mon œil! It seems pretentious & inflated.
Soo: I disagree. De religion dis author is tarkin' about sees people as small & life as interconnected. What's pretentious about dat?