Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Dumbstricken By A Line From Malebranche*


Playing our latest “smart” 
Game with my six-year-old 
Granddaughter to sharpen 
Our powers of observation, 
We watch patiently 

The dense overhanging jasmine vine 
Above and in front of us 
As it jettisons 
Its white, five-petaled 
Flowers one-by-one, 

Anxious to see who’s going 
To be the first to shout 
There it goes! as each star falls 
Dumbly to the oh so equally
Dumb and patient ground. 


*Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.

2 comments:

  1. Precise, wonderful poem that lives up (as the stars fall down) to Malebranche!

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  2. Thanks for the comment, John, and for reminding me of Malebranche's line, which kick-started the poem in the first place.

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