Skipping Stones

Skipping stones across the lake
They skip along and ripples make

Impressions each that slowly fade
As falling stars that fall away

Across the chasms of the sky
Chance be seen by roving eye

But mostly chance forgotten
As if by chance they never happened –

And fading ripples, falling stars
Are transient moments lost in thought

Like chancing looks upon a face
That come and go without a trace –
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Rodrigues Avatar
December 1, 2024 at 9:42 AM
A lovely poem. You put us right where things come and go, yet they have meaning somehow.
Oldham Avatar
December 13, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Appreciate your comments, Kim! Thank you!!
Hind Avatar
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Lovely - the rhyme was beautiful and flowed well
Oldham Avatar
December 13, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Thank you, Paige!
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