Everywhere

“There!”
A landing spot
a picnic park
warm rock upon to roost.

Here
Gather the sky
against a quickening heart
a take off drop.

Where
Emptiness fills
a horizon
premonition of loss.

Somewhere
iron holds the weight
present forged
a forever palimpsest.

Nowhere
an emptiness
thoughts drift to a centre
free.

Everywhere
a salvation bought
redemption sought
creation caught.

∞

Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt: write a poem that looks at the same thing from various points of view. The most famous poem of this type is probably Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”

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