Wednesday 12 November 2014

What Swims

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Amazing!!

They are swimming!!

One year old babes!

Swimming!

Amazing!!

 

Amazing is this human race!

They can kill their own kind

And burn their face!

 

An unpredictable kind

No one knows

What thoughts swim in minds

 

May be a gigantic mushroom

Snuffing out all life

Or

Birthing of a Christ!!

 

 


Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif~ Swimming @ PU

16 comments:

  1. That IS amazing, little water-babies. Also all of the various possibilities swimming in humankind's minds - the potential for good or evil. Let's keep hoping for the good!

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  2. That IS amazing, little water-babies. Also all of the various possibilities swimming in humankind's minds - the potential for good or evil. Let's keep hoping for the good!

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  3. Some things children were meant to do and others...
    A very meaningful poem Sumana. Hope you are having a delightful week.

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  4. Oh, yes! Some women even brth babies in water. From the sweet to the tragic, from the ridiculous to the sublime-- what amazements swim inside the human mind. Thanks for using yours to produce this powerful poem.

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  5. i liked how the poem started innocently then moved to being curious, reflective. the philosophy of life...

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  6. Oh, these newdays babies quite special with their own world of connection and intuitive knowledge...cute pic. :)x

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  7. What great potential humans have fulfilled and what disasters created too. Very insightful post.

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  8. Miracles happen-humans are born in water...cannot live without water...deep thoughts

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  9. I think you painted a much bigger picture than you pasted...insightful !!

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  10. I felt such a strong voice in this. Love the perplexity over the human race that teaches babies to swim yet is so immature that all of life may be extinguished by ignorance. Am I reading too much into this?

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  11. We all know how to swim, we just get taught to be scared.

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  12. Wow! You have perfectly captured the great dichotomy of human deeds - the wild divergence between the capacity for life affirming exploits and life annihilating atrocities.

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  13. thought provoking lines..beautiful Sumana

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  14. I love the change of mood in the piece. Really enjoyed it.

    Greetings from London.

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  15. Sumana,

    A wonderful sight and sign of progression, when a little child makes its first moves.Then the path of life and those unknown challlenges. Rather like the need to sink or swim, when those difficulties arise..
    Great prompt Sumana,

    Eileen

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  16. You are right, no one knows...dreams, or nightmares....

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