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Caroline Hugh Poem
Homogeny
Our situations may be different--
farms, cities, alone, many
Our opinions may vary too--
content, despair, passivity, fear
But has humanity ever been so homogeneous in its actions?
Have we ever before all been doing the exact same thing?
Has every human ever been so united in purpose?
--No
It is an unprecedented alignment of activity.
We have never all been working towards a common goal.
We have never all been doing fundamentally the same thing.
It is a never-known rush when you realize everyone posting anything
online is in the exact same boat as you,
And the boat is our small Planet Earth,
Headed to an unknown destination;
But her crew has never before been so united.
In the midst of a storm, the body is at rest.
Copyright © Caroline Hugh | Year Posted 2020
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Caroline Hugh Poem
Spans (Inspired by Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias")
If one pursues the desert, smooth and vast,
They will not glimpse the history buried there.
The monuments constructed did not last,
Save by poet’s pen upon paper.
A fixèd mast protruding from the spans;
The endless stream of time will wear all down,
Like flowing sand within an hourglass,
For colors mix inexorably to brown.
So irony has come with human life,
The closed events that circle round and round,
As goes delight to sadness, joy to strife
And all of history lost to passing’s glare,
Emotion, insight, love, belief, despair,
Forever locked in rock’s unyielding care.
Copyright © Caroline Hugh | Year Posted 2020
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