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Delicate Balance - Accident Or Gift

mountains bob like corks adrift on liquid magma - pond scum shelters life Earth’s magnetic shield - magma’s gift of moving charge thwarts sun’s deadly winds continental drift - neighborhoods fenced by oceans breed diversity random mutations offer death or advantage - unearned consequence life’s adaptation to universe in motion - the true face of God Brian Johnston January 12, 2016

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Lenny Gazbowski

Date: 6/12/2016 8:52:00 AM

Superb writing Brian. It held my attention throughout.

Terrence Polcari

Date: 1/12/2016 1:12:00 PM

awesome Brian!! all true... such a delicate balance -- we are adrift as you say. It is such a trip what a planet really is - with is complex fields, nature, water, life - all interwoven in such an intricate web of symmetry and connection. your words are sharp and in depth. The tone is wonderful and has flair do teaching... the imagery is solid and vivid, form is perfect for haiku. But I really find the actual literal meaning here of great worth - for those who will look openly to understand

Brian Johnston
Date: 1/12/2016 3:14:00 PM

PS: Look forward to corresponding when you get the site figured out. I find your 2 poems so far quite remarkable as well and suspect you and I are both poets of the "What's Next" tribe of poem writing. Ha!

Brian Johnston
Date: 1/12/2016 3:10:00 PM

If you like this try please try my poem Haikus of the Mind: With Cliff Notes! It would be fun to get your response. I wrote all of these haiku with the point of view of a poet living on the moon for whom Nature is abundant but seasons are absent. Such fun!