Pamela King Poet Sonnet

Almost 8 Billion

We’re the electromagnetic spectrum;
Particles, waves, almost eight billion strong.
To coherent frequencies some belong,
some divided by color through prism.
Varying energies from low to high,
narrowly diffracted photons scatter.
Lacking mass, believing we don’t matter,
Invisible to the unaided eye.

Synchronized, polarized, amplified beams,
collimated waves propagating dreams,
refracted rays bend to reflected streams
We may choose to oscillate to and fro
by joining a wave in communal flow,
or as single sparks in diffusive glow

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Eric Cohen December 2, 2021 at 3:18 PM Wow, this excellent poem is powerful. Like a laser!

John Gondolf December 19, 2020 at 8:01 AM This is a wonderfully penned Italian Sonnet, Pamela, all particles matter whether we are joining in the communal flow or a single spark in diffusive glow. I see you are relatively new here, welcome to Poetry Soup, nice to meet you. John Pamela King December 21, 2020 at 6:52 AM Thank you for your response. I believe you understand the point I was trying to make. I first wrote this over 10 years ago when the population was closer to 7 billion, and then radically rewrote this year. Maybe I'll write another one similar if we reach 9 billion!