Prospectors
We're exploring new lands in your weekly poetry booster shot #186
We're early
so we're the prospectors
roaming through a world of unfinished
business, trying to find
pearls for swine.
When you are early in an area of new trends or new technology, you will find yourself in a world where much doesn’t work too smoothly, and some of the things you love and get used to will vanish. The world of Web3 is, despite earlier hype cycles, currently in such a state. And I love being there. Feels a bit like roaming into the Wild West, establishing new lands. But this time, we treat the people much better. At least, many of us do.
Do you like to venture into new lands, or prefer more familiar and polished surroundings?
Poésie de la vie
Tulip Mania is starting in The Netherlands again. Not the notorious bulb bubble of the 1630s, but the colourful beauty of flower-filled flat fields.
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Poetry elsewhere
Can you stay on your dreams if you would choose to do so? Or would you try to find your way home? The poem After the Snow Moon by
is a wonderful exploration of this question. And much more. Enjoy:
When you close the door behind you, or actually, just before you do, look back at the empty space, and think of the plants. With Everyone has gone home Drachetech11 has written a beautiful poem about an office plant. Enjoy it by pushing the button:
In the end, I would love to become one with the sea. You know, after. But until then, I love to enjoy to the fullest precisely where I am.
wrote and illustrated A Love Letter to Where I Live, a spectacular poem about loving where you are (and if you are like me, that does not have to be always the same place, but it can be), and then becoming one with the ocean. I love this poem, I hope you enjoy it:
Thanks for the thoughtful and imaginative post, Arjan, and especially for mentioning MK Creel's poem. I think her work is amazing and I'm glad to see it boosted.
I really love the twist in the last line, "pearls for swine". Your poems and posts always make me think and fill me with inspiration!. Thanks for the mention of my poetry comic!