The Snowflakes Precision

The Snowflakes Precision

What a cruel and un-compassionate fate you bequeath us
A million years of the mediocre and paltry garnish of faith and hope
Given for the consumption of these generations

How uninspired and habitually in denial
We have become

The lost worlds of dreaming
Left waiting
For better times and in a better place

Plied by consuming the majestic expectations 
Of living
In the eternal wake of emptiness

What an unloving and unforgiving creation
We have come to exists within
Full to the brim
With uncompromising seconds

And not even in the grandeur of nature’s scenic beauty
Not in the snowflakes precision as it floats
No
Not unimagined complexity of form and chaos
No not even in a perfect chord

Does the merest or slightest of clues
Become existent or reverberate to us a voice
Which whispers to us of our truth

We are bereft of guidance
Untutored in this colossal magnitude and vacuum
Between the myriad stars

Tiny insignificant is this of our awareness
A planet a world 
Part of an unending silence

So alone and so self absorbed
So material in the murderous evil
We have done to each other
So disunited in the dark reaches
So solitary
And yet we did not gather the family of man
No not even to look after of ourselves

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008



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Date: 3/13/2009 5:25:00 AM
Tragically beautiful. Wrought with bittersweet despair. Gorgeous use of language. Loved it! ~Sara
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Date: 3/13/2009 12:04:00 AM
Congratulations on your lovely poetry being featured this week. GB Tyesha
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Date: 3/11/2009 3:06:00 PM
Colin, congratulations on your excellent poetry being featured this week. Love, Carol
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Date: 3/11/2009 1:56:00 PM
Congrats Colin on this deep write, "The Snowflakes Precision" being featured. Man will destroy the world without even the acknowledgement that he was doing wrong. Vince
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Date: 3/10/2009 3:07:00 PM
this is truly wonderful...congrats on this lovely poem being featured this week!
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Date: 3/9/2009 3:42:00 PM
I agree with Paula ... this is a keeper and I'll add to my "favorites" list! What an incredibly profound write you have done, Colin and thank goodness for the "family" gathered here at the Soup and welcome to it ... smile ... great writing and a well-deserved selection to be a feature this week. Congratulations!
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Date: 3/9/2009 1:45:00 PM
Without reading the other comments, brother Colin, you have a "classic" here. The expressions are exactly what needed to be said. And last week's snow, was just the parody for your words, as I was actually thinking and feeling something quite similar. Congrats again, Mother Nature, you hold the keynote address. But prior to your read, I feel justifiable in the deliverance of poetry as the immortal heart of mankind, and I am one of your relatives, unquestionably. Paula Larson
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Date: 3/9/2009 1:18:00 PM
congrats...I learned I was featured today and many poets wrote me to congraululate me...I thought it was so sweet..sfo I am doing it too. Liked your poem, heavy and powerful. cat
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Date: 3/9/2009 1:16:00 PM
Wow so very deep Congratulations on your featured poem ! Well done! Laura :)
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Date: 3/9/2009 10:51:00 AM
Colin - Congratulations on your poem being featured this week! Very well deserved. Peace always, John
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Date: 3/9/2009 6:11:00 AM
Warmest congratulations Colin on your constantly amazing poetry being featured this week! Love, Shar
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Date: 3/9/2009 6:09:00 AM
Loved this one Colin, really makes you think. Beautifully and poetically written. I especially liked the last stanza. Congrats on your feature this week :) Love, Amy
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Date: 3/8/2009 10:17:00 PM
Colin this poem expresses your feelings and thoughts very well indeed - wonderfully penned - Congratulations on having your poetry featured this week – God Bless, MJ
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