Today's poem comes from p. 8, 12, 14, 16, 30, 41, 50, 144, 161, 163, and 168 of The Slowest Book Ever, written by April Pullley Sayre and illustrated by Kelly Murphy.
Slow Thoughts
count to one thousand
ponder a lifetime
imagine transforming
experience time in slow motion
the entire world can be amazing
open fields
feathers
the sky
a handful of soil
animals on Earth
millions of people
the universe is a great mystery
impossibly big
don't worry
if you do not understand
that we are seeing the past
when we see the light of stars
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2021. All rights reserved.
I hope you'll come back tomorrow and see what new poem I've found. Until then, you may want to read previous poems in this series. I'm also sharing these found poems as images on my Instagram in case you want to see them all in one place.
April 1 - Flotsam
April 2 - A Warm Wind
April 3 - Zentangle Poem
April 4 - Soap Bubbles
April 5 - Following Butterflies
April 6 - Mount St. Helens
April 7 - Beautiful Buildings
April 8 - Muir in California
April 9 - Night on the Reef
April 10 - The Greatest Story Ever Told
April 11 - Archaeologists Look for Clues
Ooh, that last stanza is beautiful. I wish this whole poem would have been in the observatory when I took astronomy!!! "Don't worry, it's bigger than you are. You'll get enough fragments of starlight to see you home."
ReplyDeleteI sort of feel like that last stanza should be a poem in itself.
DeleteI am swooning over the last stanza, too! Thank you for this lovely poem and introducing me to this intriguing book!
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