Nathan Martin Poet Light Verse

Collective Synthesis

People who collect marbles also 
collect like terms. These people 
may collect unemployment in 
Florida as well. 
Trailing starboard they collect flotsam
stored in their pockets, as they 
converse and philosophize with 
living plastic flamingos. 

People who collect English dining 
ware also collect dust. Their collective
unconscious has forgotten paradise.
They have all left Eden to watch the
antique roadshow in Minneapolis.

People who collect Swiss watches
also collect minutes and seconds.
Their angels crawl like oysters in perpetual
motion collecting seed pearls of prayer.  

nathan martin  2009

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Janette Fisher January 20, 2010 at 12:05 PM Many congrats on your featured poem this week. Rgds Janette

Adeleke Adeite January 19, 2010 at 8:41 PM This is a wonderful piece , congrats on your well deserved feature. keep writing, you are such a wonderful poet. Your poetry friend Adeleke

James Fraser January 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM Many congratulations on your poetry being featured this week >> James

Carol Sunshine Brown January 18, 2010 at 3:56 AM Congratulations on your well deserved poetry being featured this week Nathan. I hope you have many more. Have a wonderful week. Love, Carol

Doris Culverhouse January 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM funny, nice feature

Frank Sinatra January 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM Your critique is both comical as well as dismal. All-in-all, I enjoyed this poem :) I was thinking you were going to name a location in your third stanza as you did in the first two. Did you deliberately leave it out? Nathan Martin May 6, 2021 at 4:05 PM Eleven years late but here I go...Swiss watches- does that count?