Chimera

[PrairieDancer]

Chimera

Great white clouds roll in from the coast
casting shadows over the hot desert sands
and sending tiny tornadoes whirling o'er
dry lake beds with waves already baked
into perpetuity and beyond as mirrored by
the lake shores on the crust of the moon.

Bright shiny stars dazzle those who may be
gazing from planets spaced in deliberate patterns
throughout the universe separated into millenniums
by the hands of a Creator who had nothing better
to do than design patterns for creatures made human
for His delight in communication of ideas and pleasures.

Throngs of people gather now, indeed multitudes reach out
across the oceans and the mighty rivers of the jungles
and the plains; cascading waterfalls sparkle in the sunlight
signaling lonely travelers that the time has come to join
hands with brothers and sisters, children of the world
coming together at last with singleness of purpose,

Just love one another.

© Martha Grace Stewart 10/14/06

[spacecadet]

The title and the poem have thrown me. I think I'm going to have to read this again when time allows. Chimera?

[PrairieDancer]

Chimera, as a thought rather than an organism...a figment of the imagination...highly unlikely.

Wait a minute! That title ocurred to me from out of nowhere and I was intrigued with how it came to me to use that word. It is not common in my vocabulary and I had to look it up in the dictionary (Encarta World English) to see if it was appropriate, and, to me, it was.

PD

[Mike Daniels]

chimera - I'm more used to the alternate spelling chimaera - whose meaning moved from the original of a fire spouting monster with lion's head, goat's body and serpent's tail to that of any wild or idle fancy.

that last line, such a glorious ambition, is nonetheless chimaera, methinks, and you lead us there neatly enough with a careful use of language.

I imagine John lennon would have used th word 'imagine.'

Good to read you again, PD

Mike

[Catherine Edmunds]

Lovely rich writing. I've missed reading your poetry, Marty.

It's a super word, chimera, with many meanings. The odd thing about it is that it derives from the Greek for she-goat. Weird, that.

By the way, you have your own page here in the Library now. When you have a moment, I hope you'll use it to post some poems you'd like to showcase.

Thanks