April 1, 2013
I love this poem, from an anthology that I published a number of years ago. Actually, this is prose that I adapted from WALDEN, written by the great American author, philosopher and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. I think these lines scan beautifully as poetry, don’t you?
This whole earth which we inhabit
is but a point in space.
How far apart, think you,
dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star,
the breadth of whose disk
cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
Why should I feel lonely?
Is not our planet in the Milky Way?
Posted by: Seymour Simon
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