If a Tree Falls...

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    If a Tree Falls...

    Turtle on turtle etcetera

    Still I am around to witness

    The existence of existence

    On a day as beautiful and bland as any

     

    On planet earth

    Home by way of gravitational pull

    We live in a life-size replica

    Of a city once only envisioned

     

    People live and die here

    And fail to come to terms

    With the fact that there is

    No world outside the mind

     

    Count the stars and count your coins

    In the final analysis

    We have nothing to fear

    And nowhere to hide

     

    By random sequence

    Its structure gives in

    And the tree falls

    On the only ones to hear

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    Olan01 commented on If a Tree Falls...

    09-15-2010

    Quite existentialistic in scope, my young friend and an interesting read.with very quotable phrasing; such as, "And the tree falls On the only ones to hear".
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    rsalassi commented on If a Tree Falls...

    09-13-2010

    You have managed quite innocently I'm sure to erase that last little vestige of hope I once felt toward my fellow man. Now I feel I'm as hopeless as they.
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    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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