OUR LITTLE CORNERS
I know there are some people out there who in their hearts believe that…
in spite of all the evidence to the contrary our planet Earth…is flat!
When I hear this…I admit…I am astounded…
for I believe the scientists and my own eyes…when I say the Earth is rounded.
I say rounded because due to centrifugal force, gravity and the whims of our creator
Earth flattens out a little at each of her poles and bugles at her equator.
Which technically makes her an oblate spheroid as scientists have found…
but for the purposes of this poem…It’s okay to call her round.
I’m not interested in her exact measurements, her circumference or her girth
today I’m interested in her corners…yes in the corners of round Earth.
Figuratively Earth has a multitude of corners…corners specific to you and me…
my little corner of the world consists of my friends and family.
Which means every family out there has their own corner…corners they can see
and we do our best to make our little corners of the world…as happy as they can be.
And since we’re talking about the Earth…no matter how you spin it…
we each hope our little corner of the world…will smile on everybody in it.
But such is the the nature of the Earth…if you travel at all you might suspect…
none of our corners stand alone…they all intersect.
Which means and I’m sorry for the convoluted nature of this poem…
how to get to the point it took me a while…
But if we tried a little harder at the points where our corners intersect
perhaps we could make the whole world smile?
Copyright © Jim Yerman | Year Posted 2025
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