Poetry

Isaac Newton and the DogWalk

Ashley Davidoff 

Said;

Gravity to water droplet – “ I will force you down”
Droplet to earth – “You may shudder with the fall”
Earth to water “I will spread you in my womb”
Water to roots “I will move up inside you”
Time to Winter ”You are going down”
Time to Spring “Time to come up”
Tree to itself “Time to grow up and bud”
Bud to husk “Release me so I can grow up”
Gravity to husk “You are going to fall down”
Spider to tree “Hold my web, so I do not fall”

 

BEYOND THE WATER DROP From Big Bang to Eternity –
A poem dedicated to our son Aaron on his birthday

From the explosive womb of Big Bang
Hydrogen, your progenitor was born
Consisting of single moving and opposite forces
Seeking companionship, and a need for Oneness
Bigger and more powerful than the self
And the atoms and elements and then the molecules of life
Were themselves given life

And then you my darling water
The purest of beings
Born with a gush from the amniotic sacs of Big Bang
Finding your way to virgin earth
Under forces beyond you
With forces in you
To enable all of life
For without you we would not be

The single droplet of rain hitting the puddle
With its kind but explosive kinetic force
Under the same original force that brought you to earth
Converting to a beautiful sound of the droplet on water
With an array of waves in perfect circle

As I ponder this wonder
The beauty of physics at its best
No energy destroyed, just converted
A simple yet not so simple action reaction of Newton
Snow, ice, vapor, waves of the sea, and a flowing river
Calming of the soul
Giver of life
From Big Bang to Eternity