ART AND POETRY / One Thing
IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?
This is one of those questions that is beyond comprehension, a question we all have opinions about, but without anyway to prove it remains unsolved. For many it is hard to accept that there is no definitive answer; in fact, it is like so many other imponderable questions we store in our minds. Is there a God? Is there life after death? It would certainly be nice to know all the answers, but then were would the mystery be?
My poem One Thing approaches this idea of knowing , but it looks at it from an unusual point of view. Do you remember the movie Rainman? about a savant (a person with developmental disabilities who has one profound skill that most normal people do not.) It might be a mathematical skill like the Rainman's or more often it is musical. For my poem I thought it would be interesting if the skill was spiritual, a person who could understand the imponderable.
In the Eye of the Storm
One Thing
In a wall-papered room a savant,
head tilted like Stevie Wonder,
understands God. His father
fries eggs in a cast iron pan,
calls him to breakfast with words
that shake up the dust in a deep
and more narrowing hallway.
Outside the sky is enraged,
a bully pushing down
trees in a forest.
Unable to speak the boy slides
his mouth on the window. He knows
as they fall, God will be silent.
note: One Thing first appeared as an editor's choice on the front page of Poetry Circle.
CLICK HERE if you would like to see it there.
Love the concept. Had to read it aloud :)
Thanks Billy, I often read aloud myself.
I really like the idea behind each verse of the poem and the poem itself as well! Great piece!
Thanks @edje
Yes, makes a sound, i heard it live 🌳
You are one of only a few.
In silence, in truth! Great piece!
Thanks @linzo
I had voted, but not commented. And it is worthy of comment.
I really liked how this flowed, a gentle spiritual ambience to it. The mystical, allowed to remain a mystery.
Thanks I love mysterious and imponderable things, have a great day.