Caveat: Poem #983 “Simple words”

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In philosophical discourses
the trees and ravens have their say,
while solitary thinking forces
the passing meditative day.

The churning mind can seem so fragile
and its surroundings strong and agile:
a soul made up of colored glass
and tangled in a vague morass.

The mental gaze can just distinguish
a cloud enclosed in blue and gold,
but all the world spins, gray and old,
that simple words will not extinguish -

instead, imbrute the thinker's skull:
a cloud up close is broad and dull.

– a sonnet in a tetrameter.

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