This style of poetry is quite avant garde to me and not my usual style, here using single word lines, giving space to the writing in keeping with the theme, centre aligned text as a nod to the shape of the Milky Way. So it is an art form as well as a poem. An installation of prose on paper, rather than separate entities, they are part of a spectrum of communication using words and form.
Night-time.
New-moon.
Cloudless.
Without wind,
The lake.
Motionless, tranquil, silent.
No fish break the surface.
Dragonflies sleep.
Water-boatmen hide in reeds.
Look deep into the water.
Observe.
Look again.
The Milky Way,
There
Lying on the bed of the lake.
Look up.
It’s there.
The cosmos spread across the sky.
Look down,
there.
Still.
Resting on the lake.
© joseph r mason 2020
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I love this style of poetry! Plus you mastered the center-aligned text as a nod to the shape of the Milky Way. Brilliantly rendered and thank you for joining in.
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