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May 20, 2021
This poem is part of the challenge:

Neopoet Random Challenge 3

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WHAT ISN'T THERE

Give me not the wilderness of stars
which sparkle there seductively
for I know how they really are.
They care not for you and me.

Their home is space, sterile and cold
like their spare light when darkness falls
and they're unbelievably old
hidden in between the parsec's walls.

That wilderness of time and space
is no place for soul or mind.
It recognizes not my soul or face;
to sanctity of life it's blind.

All that cold bland emptiness
All that mindless sensory deprivation
All that emptiness
emptiness...
nothingness

just me

About This Poem

Last Few Words: A sample of poetry which wound up being morphing....it just wound up that way

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: South Carolina, United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Frost

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Geezer

Geezer

3 years 11 months ago

that the stars are supposed to be the stuff of life, yet they seem so cold and distant. Much like some people, maybe they are the aliens? Interesting morphology. Hmmmm. ~ Geez.
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Geezer

Not a biologist, but I wanted to be. ~ Geez.
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Geezer

of them in many years! I too, wonder [if it were true] and if someday, they would be found by another race of beings, drifting through space and wondered about. Would they think that they were just foolish people that had gotten lost or would they think that they were just abandoned? [In the interest of science of course]. ~ Geez.
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Race_9togo

Your poetry has gone from strength to strength. You've managed to instill some awe in me.
Thanks man.

Michael Anthony

Good stuff Stan! This piece captured the same feelings I have every time I ponder my own insignificance when I take the time to look up at night - well done!

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S

Even one such as I stubbles around and pens something good once in a while lol. i guess getting people to think of stuff only remotely related to a poem is a good thing