Circles of the Cosmos

The fan spins above my head.
The world spins beneath my feet.
And I start thinking about how
Black Elk, the Lakota Mystic,
said, “The universe is circles
within circles,” and I’m thinking
he probably was correct

as I consider how right now
planets are spinning in circles
in the cosmos and I wonder
if stars spin too. And I wonder
if the cosmos is really an ever
expanding circle.

I hear a slight whirr of the fan
and think about the music of
the spheres and if that and
the OM are related.

And I wonder if heaven exists
what kind of music people
hear there, and if circles have
any significance in that higher
world.

I awakening from my musings
and realize it’s time to feed the
fish in my fish tanks, whose
tanks are square, and I return
to earthly matters.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd