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Wonder

Megan Lindberg

Free verse
Wonder

It is late at night
As I look into a crystalline sky
And ponder upon my smallness

I realise the stars are
The music of the universe
I am but one note on the staff

And I am alone

About this poem

Came to me staring at the stars through my holly tree one evening

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Written on 2021

Submitted by meganl.48371 on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 189
Words 45
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
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  • karlcfolkes
    karlcfolkes
    A DAO Principle: The marvelous wonder of it all of nature in its balance and its harmony. Singularity disguises multiplicity, even as multiplicity disguises nature’s singularity.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • donka_k
    donka_k
    Beautifully and simply told of a universal truth: we are alone yet never really alone... I enjoyed this inspiring reminder.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • dougb.19255
    dougb.19255
    Marvelous moment of revelation beneath the sparkling canvas of God. Somehow alone, you still feel that you have Company of the Highest Order, great poem. Brief, but that is a necessary feature here…Wayne Blair. 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • saudanih2
    saudanih2
    wow! I like it!
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • dougb.72572
    dougb.72572
    The stars, the grains of sand, the waves incoming, the flocks of blackbirds at harvest, the flamingoes on that African Lake. All belittling the Observer. And for the good…Douglas Blair
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • karlcfolkes
    karlcfolkes
    A lone star meditating on the multitude of other stars of which, even in its loneliness, is integrally woven together as one celestial family we call the galaxy of The Milky Way.
    LikeReply 12 years ago
    • meganl.48371
      meganl.48371
      thank you for your kind comment!
      LikeReply2 years ago
  • teril
    teril
    This is beautiful.
    LikeReply 12 years ago

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