Proverbs 30:19
Too much for me...
The way of a man with a maid,
Solomon said,
Too much for him to understand
Too much.
A snake crawling on a rock,
A ship moving across the waves
The motionless soaring of an eagle
Too much to understand.
I have come to grips with a snake's scaly progress,
undulating,
cupping,
twisting,
hugging,
movement upon a rock.
I can nearly sense a ship's purposeful meanderings
on pathless seas,
driven by compass-aimed sails
and the science of sextants and stars.
I have accepted the Bernoulli Principle:
air currents rushing under and
meandering over
curved and feathered wings
producing lift,
defying gravity.
But still I cannot grasp
the way of a man with a maid.
Though I have studied
oxytocin,
endorphins,
hormonal urges,
a man and a maid
who walk through life
past beauty and prime,
surviving the vagaries of time,
seeing in each other
their youth long spent,
still straight and tall in the other's mind,
though old and bent...
must always bring me wondering, to a stop.
Such things, the Wise One said,
Are far too wonderful for me.
Long live love.
many thoughts are included in this poem. Each one well thought out. Such things, the wise one said, are far too wonderful for me. nice
Wonderful write, splendidly poetic!
still straight and tall in the other's mind,/ though old and bent... magnetic power of love keeps the whole species nearing to their origin...it never extinguishes. Fantastic the writing as a postmodern study of life. Excellent and rich with philosophical illustration.
Deep as life, magical movements of Science 'Such things, the Wise One said, Are far too wonderful for me.' Love the life is great!
A man with a maid had got it maid as long as she's well paid....and it can make him feel lighter in the velcro loafers.
Agree with Gita..an excellent poetic take on a variety of subjects....
A wonderful concoction of physics, chemistry, biology philosophy and poetry!
a great piece!!