Matthew Anish Poet Free verse

The End of Time

Deep waters
recede
      the shoreline
teems with life 
on the cosmic scale
     how little that matters!
     Waves blown by
the wind
      crash on the rocks
We are all dancing 
      to a tune
     made popular 
 by the seething life 
    here underneath 
our feet
  let go of the moon
grab on to something real
Flesh to flesh
eye to eye
closer 
     but 
       still 
distant 
          A great chasm
    between our souls
    I'll let you catch fire
       in this realm
As you speed through the solar system
Waiting for some forgotten 
   planet
       to offer you a home
a place beneath the stars

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Andrea Dietrich February 23, 2011 at 9:13 PM about poetry readings, I don't know where I can do that. I joined utah's poetry society, but felt very out of place with the small group that met in Provo, just six or seven free verse poets there and me, mainly a sonneteer. Also they read their poems aloud to each other and then picked over each, for ten min. . It was very dull. They were already pros at what they were doing. Why analyze?? Just enjoy. Unless something really stands out as wrong, I think that is a boring activity! I dropped out!

Andrea Dietrich February 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM Matt, I think I will start back here at the beginnning and just move forward from the end . Hopefully I will more easily remember where I left off to see your poems. This is a wonderful one here. I sure hope it had comments when you first posted it around five years ago! So you have been here a long time!! (continued)