The world is not so vast

[PrinceMyshkin]

The world is not so vast
as the space I have for it
in my mind, where,
in slow and solemn majesty,
it turns, it turns
and billions and billions of Chinese,
East Indians, Greeks, Poles
etcetera stand upright, arms raised
and undulating as if they were one
great, animated field of wheat!

There is no hunger there, no crime,
no unrequited love, but all
are satisfied, all are loved, all,
at last, are at peace!

[goldenrod]

As a member of the "etcetera" I can only wish that the space within your mind morphs into reality. If wishing could make it so, I would insist on such wishing to be my life's work. But let us hope that your poem like the thought, become father to the deed...


goldenrod.

[Sweets America]

Very peaceful poem, sweetie-shou. And there is the image of the wheat field, which I LOVE!! :p
I love your mind too, and what can be discovered inside of it.

[AuntShecky]

Your piece reminds me of two seemingly disparate literary quotations. The first from Edith Sitwell:
"Hell has no vastness with little rotting souls here and there."
And the second from the last line of Hemingway's The Son Also Rises: "It would be pretty to think so."

[PrinceMyshkin]

Your piece reminds me of two seemingly disparate literary quotations. The first from Edith Sitwell:
"Hell has no vastness with little rotting souls here and there."
And the second from the last line of Hemingway's The Son Also Rises: "It would be pretty to think so."

I'm afraid I don't understand the Sitwell quotation.


As a member of the "etcetera" I can only wish that the space within your mind morphs into reality. If wishing could make it so, I would insist on such wishing to be my life's work. But let us hope that your poem like the thought, become father to the deed...


goldenrod.

I didn't know you were one of the Etceteras! Are you Northern Etcetera or one of those villainous Eastern Etceteras?


Very peaceful poem, sweetie-shou. And there is the image of the wheat field, which I LOVE!! :p
I love your mind too, and what can be discovered inside of it.

Merci, ma petite ange! I am constantly sending out search parties to see what they can find in my mind... Some of them, alas, never return and I fear may have been ambushed along the way.

[goldenrod]

Perhaps the Sitwell quote refers to the fact that there is no depth or vastness of spirit, contained within the narrow, mean souls confined to hell, so it might well be a place of constrained dimensions???


goldenrod.

[AuntShecky]

I thought Edith was geographically speaking.

[blazeofglory]

The world is not so vast
as the space I have for it
in my mind, where,
in slow and solemn majesty,
it turns, it turns
and billions and billions of Chinese,
East Indians, Greeks, Poles
etcetera stand upright, arms raised
and undulating as if they were one
great, animated field of wheat!

There is no hunger there, no crime,
no unrequited love, but all
are satisfied, all are loved, all,
at last, are at peace!


Isn't it paradoxical when we live in a world full of vices?