My mind and the universe expand:
looking back down the telescope of life, I see
my younger self,
a tiny planet,
lost in the cosmos,
oblivious
to what the future holds for me.
I see myself waving,
afraid of drowning
in a sea of stars,
trapped in a moment
of inexperience
and transience,
long before I grasped what infinity meant.
Kim M. Russell, 30th March 2019
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Physics with Björn: Cosmology and Expanding Horizons, also linked to Poets United Poetry Pantry
This weekend Björn tells us about Hubble, cosmology and the Big Bang Theory, and asks us to ponder the cosmos, the theories of origin and horizon. He says that the prompt is wide open when it comes to form and length.
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The wonderful thought of using the expanding universe as metaphor of self is just wonderful… and truly it the end we can maybe grasp infinity.
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Thank you kindly, Bjorn.
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Perhaps we are the mirror held up to nature, as you reflect here. So we wake, fling, exhilirate, see.
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And we expand, often to the detriment of the rest of the universe.
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I like how you compare your younger self to the older universe, seeing through the telescope…It is true. We are our own universe.
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I love that you got it, Toni!
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😊
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drowning in a sea of stars is fabulous imagery!
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Thank you, Rajani!
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I’m still not quite sure what infinity means… ~
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It’s mind-blowing!
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… I hear the old sound of movie film, the flickering light, the images … memories of childhood. Well done.
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Thank you, Margaret.
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Your personal approach reminds how intrinsically we are all a part of the hole.
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🙂
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luv the 2 views of existence, the immature and more mature, yet there must be questions unanswered in this vast sphere of being
Happy Sunday Kim
much love…
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Happy Sunday, Gillena! It’s Mothering Sunday over here, so happy Mother’s day too!
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I love the idea of the expanding – and emerging – self. Wonderful idea!
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Thank you, Sherry!
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It is good to understand we are part of something much bigger, for humanity has been so self centred thinking everything revolves around us!
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It certainly is, Robin!
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This completely blew my socks off, Kim! ❤️ A splendid rendition 😍😍😍
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Thank you so much, Sanaa! ❤
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Perhaps it was for the best that our younger selves didn’t have a full view, because we may have well drowned under the enormity of it all before we had the wisdom to deal with it.
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Experience and wisdom go hand in hand.
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Love how you explored the expansion of yourself with the universe — we are products and practitioners of our own individual spheres and this journey is made all the more special with such experiences. I absolutely loved the ending!
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Thanks so much, Anmol!
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Wow! That’s quite a “Grasp”
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😊
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I really like the construction of this piece … the disjointed lines, I thought, coming to the reader – much in the way that insight comes. Wonderful writing!
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Thank you, Wendy!
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As we look at our youth and the our relationship to the cosmos, we can see we’ve (hopefully) grown to understand more about our expansion, our growth. But oh, our knowledge is tiny compared to what infinity must hold, and our wisdom is still expanding.
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It’s mindblowing, Myrna!
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It’s like your mind is a telescope to the Big Bang of time.
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🙂
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This can read as two different poems. I like them both separately but together – what a depth.
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Thank you, Debi.
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The structure works so well… I love that how allows me to see different parts of the speaker in separate ways while the whole remains and grows. And the rush of imagery contained in that “in a sea of stars / trapped in a moment” is… brilliant.
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Thank you, Magaly. I enjoy writing shape poems, they take me to places I might not have gone.
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Yes, viewpoint is all.
A splendid poem!
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Thank you, Rosemary!
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Space the final frontier …………. behind the oceans of the world.
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