Macrocosm
On a crisp, clear night
wide eyed on frosting veranda,
I stir my coffee
and the universe swirls.
The twinkle of a distant star,
We see long before we existed.
Within a single second
we have swung from trees
to an orbit round Mars.
Hot coffee steam,
essence of our billion fathers,
condenses over my cold glasses.
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Submitted on March 14, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 301 |
Words | 57 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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