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What I like about the inspiration poem by Collins is that the narrator is all over the map and inside his head, illustrating that life happens effortlessly no matter who you are and where you turn inside or out. The phrase "it must be everything and nothing at once" seems to be a disclaimer reserved for the person convinced life is pointless and thus yields no potential outcomes.

The impression I get from your emulation is that of each life being a unique path as if carved through earth yet the Universe easily acquiesces as if water flowing around us; we are creating individual worlds around us that sustain our personal growth - the extremes of belief resulting in either fruitful lifetimes or barren fields; 'of everything and nothing at once' .

This is all Billy Collins and pure poetry at once.

📝❤

Amen to the above. Love the philosophy of it. 💖👏

Very deep.

Johnny,

I thought along those same lines when I read his inspirational poem.  I felt that he was saying we were all individually significant and yet not in the grand scale of things. I keep thinking about the little blue dot in the galaxy, where our lives don't even make a blip in the timeline of the Universe.

Thank you!

Jess, thank you.

wordless...so much depths n elegance ..in the outpouring words..uterine ...terraforming ...the traverse amidst adversities ..inner n inner..so spiritually the birth.... & in the rebirthing ev in sync with nature with within....amidst watev deaths we face~ phase.in our eternal soul's  cyclical moults...

feels a deep soulspeak..fine tribute to the comp. dear A .light & love ev xo

Thank you, Uma.  I appreciate your observations, my dear friend. xo

Thank you, Didi! Much appreciated, my friend.

"I press on despite the storm;
its downpour uterin warm
—the alchemy of each breath
a gift terraforming myself—"

Words of beauty and
confidence in a daunting balance.

I feel reconciliation between Physical and Spiritual ....
The ability to somehow function  comfortably, naturally, and progressively
is what  gets Us Humans
through THESE times when the giant cosmetic stone is lifted,
shedding harsh light on the reality of our Vulnerability..........